Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) by J. K. Rowling Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
Book Review: Harry Potter
Summary: 4 Stars
I am very happy with the product itself - the book is in perfect condition even after shipping. However, it took a lot longer to get here than any purchase I've ever done through the Amazon Marketplace. My guess is that when you do the Free SuperSaver Shipping, they take their own precious time getting your order ready.Book Review: UK Large Print Editions
Summary: 5 Stars
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.Book Review: Something is HORRIBLY Wrong...
Summary: 1 Stars
(I recently made fifteen and I'm frank, just to make it clear.) What is happening? I read some of this book, and to tell the truth, I don't want to push myself to finish reading it--despite my Harry Potter crazed friends urging me to. First of all, I don't get what people find so intriguing about the Harry Potter series. On television, the graphics and visual eye-candy really impress, however, Rowling's imagery and prose in the books are nothing to really talk about. There is better--even for children. Yet not only children but also full-grown adults flock to buy Harry Potter like immature, simple-minded lunatics! I don't understand how this could have happened. It's a dreadfully sad situation. Don't get me wrong, I am pleased that Rowling is out of her financially deprived state and now doing what I'd imagine is a lot more than just well off, but this nonsense needs to end. People dressing like characters from the story, trading cards, games, action figures--the list goes on and on. And for what? A series of books that are not only simply written, have an overused, amateur storyline, are utterly, sickly predictable but Satanic in nature. And it's supposed to be for children. I'm not even a devout Christian as of yet, and I can perceive that something is gravely wrong with Harry Potter's phenomenal success. I personally believe that Rowling has put a spell on these books, which targets naive or imperceptive individuals (selectively children who are to young to know better) and somehow leads them to believe that Harry Potter is oh-so-great and perfectly normal. It is not. It is not normal that a book divulging into the subjects of witchcraft and immoral circumstances can be such a hit and with negligible controversy. There are books that do not even touch these premises and are perfectly reasonable that have stirred heated controversy. Rowling takes her touchy subject and glazes it over with charming characters and their `apparently' moral deeds. So it's almost like it doesn't matter anymore. To hell with it that this book is actually talking about `nice' witches and derisively calling normal humans `muggles', which is ironic considering that all of its non-wiccan readers would be in the `muggles' category. I don't care if there are `nice' witches, witchcraft is witchcraft, black magic is black magic, therefore immoral cannot be moral. Witchcraft is not a decent practice. I am glad that I have not been dragged into the sadly demonic and rampant abyss that is Harry Potter.Book Review: Excellent on audio
Summary: 5 Stars
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!! KathyBook Review: One of the Best books EVER turned into a movie!!
Summary: 5 Stars
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!!!!