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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Great start to an excellent series. To be honest it took me three or four times to actually force myself to get through it--I just didn't care about the Dursleys and kept stopping at around the same point. Eventually I forced myself to keep going and I'm glad I did. Looking back I appreciate the book more now that I know the actual storyline. Too much backstory in the beginning of a novel always puts me off. Anyway, great book. (  )1   fufuakaspeechless | Dec 29, 2009 |  Merideth says: Is it even necessary to talk about Harry Potter anymore? Hasn't everything been said? I've read this book more times than I really care to think about, for programs at the library, and I still enjoy it. That makes it a good book I think. The audio book read by Jim Dale, is especially good because Dale is such a great reader. ( )2 YouthGPL | Dec 22, 2009 | Harry Potter is undoubtedly good reading for children. The story emphasizes positive traits such as courage, loyalty and teamwork. It puts education in a positive light and teaches that things are not always as they seem. Above all, it is a fun story to read with a continual high level of interest and a clever plot. I had seen the series recommended as reading for adults as well (for example by Charles Van Doren in "The Joy of Reading"). I'll have to say that it was a pleasant diversion for me at a time when I didn't feel up to more serious reading, but nothing more. Perhaps having seen the movie first took away the suspense. The book offered little in depth of character beyond what was portrayed in the film, and that is rarely the case. I don't regret reading it, but neither do I think it likely that I will read further in the series. (  )1 steven03tx | Dec 14, 2009 | The first book in the famous Harry Potter series that sets up the whole universe. We're introduced to Harry and he is introduced to the magical world. His first adventure at Hogwarts begins his life changing 7 book long escapades. It being the first in the series, I do enjoy this book just a bit more than the others. It's much more light-hearted and fun. I would introduce this book to children as soon as they were ready to begin reading chapter books. (  )1 AwXomeMan | Dec 11, 2009 | I loved the Harry Potter books when I was in junior high all the way up thru high school. At first it was a book I was forced to read, but after the first chapter I was in love. This story is about a boy named Harry Potter who was orphaned and forced to live with his terribly mean aunt and uncle as well as his rude cousin. He sleeps in a little room under the staircase and is verbally abused day in and out. Through an odd turn of events he gets a letter inviting him to Hogwarts, a school of wizardry and learns so much about his past as well as his future. He has an adventerous year at Hogwarts learning so many wizardry tricks as well about quiditch, which is the real world's soccer. Harry Potter is a wonderful book that helps with building the young child's imagination as well as just a good read. I love this book! 1 kris1990 | Dec 7, 2009 | 
 On the whole, ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'' is as funny, moving and impressive as the story behind its writing. J. K. Rowling, a teacher by training, was a 30-year-old single mother living on welfare in a cold one-bedroom flat in Edinburgh when she began writing it in longhand during her baby daughter's nap times. But like Harry Potter, she had wizardry inside, and has soared beyond her modest Muggle surroundings to achieve something quite special.  The light-hearted caper travels through the territory owned by the late Roald Dahl, especially in the treatment of the bad guys — they are uniformly as unshadedly awful as possible —but the tone is a great deal more affectionate. A charming and readable romp with a most sympathetic hero and filled with delightful magic details.  it is very fantastic and like a real story
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