Excellent on audio | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)

A book needing no introduction... | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) | J.K. Rowling

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	• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) J.K. Rowling Arthur A. Levine Books, 2001 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 5431 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

UK Large Print Editions

I absolutely love the Harry Potter series of books! Great end to a wonderful story about courage! I must admit that as the adult that I am, I was quite embarrassed to carry around my Harry Potter book on the NYC subway system way back when it began but one cannot put the book down once you start reading! I now have a proud collection of the UK Edition Books 1-7 Large Print 1st Prints, 2 school books Quidditch Through The Ages and Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them 1st prints, 1 US Edition Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire 1st Print, 2 US Edition Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 1st prints, 2 US Edition Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1st print, 1 Deathly Hallows 1st print misprint, and 1 letter from J K Rowling office with Personal Assistant's signature addressed to me acknowledging my letter to Ms Rowling and a J K Rowling signed bookplate (not a copy)! WOW!! What's even worse is that I do not intend on selling any of them either. I want my grandchildren to enjoy them and keep them as collector's items. It was alot of fun gathering all these treasures.

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Excellent on audio

Although I have read the books many times, as a sewing crafter I spend hours at my sewing machine and thoroughly enjoy listening to books. The narrator of this series is fantastic!! You can take an excellent book and totally changed or corrupt the characters with a bad narrator, but that is not at all the case in this series. So if you've got too much to do to sit and read, take the time to listen. You will truly enjoy it!! Kathy

A book needing no introduction...

I started reading this book very hesitantly and for the first time in a decade with a solemn promise to self. I would read all of the Potter books. I would. I would make myself, just to understand the series and constant references...

Okay, okay, okay, and I have to admit -- I liked it. No huge surprise -- any international is pretty much likely to be at least entertaining.

I, for the sake of throwing this out there, HATE reviewing smash hits. Be it film or novel, it's very hard for me, because I know all of the fans of such work (and so often there are so many) will scorn any criticisms I have. (I'm dreading the next time I watch Titanic. Seriously.)

Anyway, Potter's got all the elements of a good, especially introductory, novel. It's got the engaging plot, great characters, catchy opener, and enough humor, especially for young audiences.

I also have to admit that I am a huge fan of Rowling's world-building. You go, woman. From the perspective of the last time I read Potter, all that really mattered was whether or not the story and characters were entertaining, and the "bigger picture" of the novel was lass important. Now, I have to give J.K.R. credit for far more than just that. It's truly an ideal setup novel for a series like this. Everything's set up so amazingly well.

Now, and I have to admit a lot of styles kept jumping into my mind as I read this book. Rowling has a style and tone that, at times, reads frighteningly much like Roald Dahl, and I kept getting occasional flashbacks to the "Great Brain" books of John D. Fitzgerald. Not that these similarities are a form of criticism by any means. Mere observation.

And really, having finished, I can't find anything... concrete... to criticize. It's a good book. No doubt there. But is it worthy of the entire microcosm universe it spawned in today's pop-culture world? Of that I'm not one-hundred percent certain.

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One of the Best books EVER turned into a movie!!

I saw all the movies first so I was kind of worried the movies weren't going to be like the books but they are!!!! I loved it a must read for everybody!!!!

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