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A great start.
“For the first 90% of the book, Rowling is at her best. The reader shares Harry's wonder as he discovers his new life. The details are engaging and inventive and carry the plot easily.
An amazon user wrote this on 2009-12-20.
The last 10% is fun, but contrived and really outside the world she creates in the first 90% and continues in the later books. It only works in the end because Harry realizes he's been set up by Dumbledore.” -
Fantasy classic with a humorous touch
“I won't say much about the worldwide publishing phenomenon that is Rowling's Harry Potter series, and her fairy tailesque rise to riches and fame, except that the book's success (and my appreciation, mostly from childhood, of classic British fantasy like Tolkien) made me want to check it out. At first I was very impressed. I could see that Rowling had an ability to write in a way that would draw young readers into a classic children's story, and to also maintain a bit of ironic distance and light humor from the proceedings, thus pleasing older readers. I was floored by the marvelous world (within our world) that she creates - the Hogwarts School, the whole business of boys and girls being educated to become wizards and witches, the game of Quidditch, the houses of Hogwarts, the Sorting Hat, etc. That really was a bit of genius, and one that many other writers wish had come to them first. But as the book went on, it seemed like the childish side of the storytelling took control, and this adult reader began to lose interest. The business of Harry being marked for greatness from the beginning, the way he very quickly becomes one of the top kids at the school, the confrontation with the evil professor and Voldemort at the end - all this struck me as being fairly contrived, but something that a reader below the age of 13 might like a lot. At her best Rowling has a light and humorous touch with fantasy elements that make some of the book a real pleasure.
An amazon user wrote this on 2009-12-08.
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Awesome book
“The book actually came two days early!! How exciting is that? I love all the Harry Potter movies so I thought it was time for the book since Borders it's not delivering them over PR. Great condition, nice drawings!!! Can't wait to read it!! I'll be buying the second book soon.”
An amazon user wrote this on 2009-12-07. -
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excellant book
“This is an excellant companion to the rest of your Harry Potter series. It is very neat to compare the differances of the American: Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone and the UK's : Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) .”
An amazon user wrote this on 2009-11-20. -
Loved It.
“This Leather Bound edition is beautiful. The pictures cant even partly depict the way it and feels in your own hands I would suggest this to any Harry Potter fan.”
An amazon user wrote this on 2009-11-10.
