Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter Series #1) by J. K. Rowling
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Web ID: 14376837Mind blowingly amazing
I love this book so much. One of my top favorite books. I can't believe this level of English is actually children's level at that too! Looks pretty adult to me. Anyways, I can't stop putting this down whenever I read it. It is spectacular, and the pacing is perfect. Absolutely perfect. The author doesn't waste a single word.
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Interesting introduction to the series
Have been a long term fan of the series, this is a fantastic book which brings it to life.
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
What detail that J K Rowling provides of the characters, the setting, and the events! What an imagination to visualize this scientific and magical world. The movie follows the book very closely, but many minor events escape mention. I almost feel impelled to continue reading the series, but not really a lover of this genre. Harry bumbles into all sorts of trouble, but develops friendship with the Wesley brothers and Hermione. Rowling introduces the trials and delights of a live-in school and the perks and expectations of the various professors. Harry learns a little more about his parents and their arch enemy, Lord Voldemort. So many of the professors lead a double life and can easily fool Harry. A delightful reading!
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Best!
I was never able to read these books growing up cause my family didn’t have a lot of money. I recently started them as I’m 21 now for the first time and it’s even better than I thought it was gonna be I love Harry Potter and I definitely would recommend!
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Love this book
Came in 1 day in perfect condition (there’s been blizzards where I live so 1 day is so impressive). I already knew I loved the book so 5 star for the book as well. :)
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The Book That Started My Reading Obsession
This book full of magic, spells, plot twists, the friendship of the Golden Trio, and He Who Must Not Be Named helped me start to enjoy books once again.
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The greatest feeling ever!
Imagine, you walk aboard a train, you view your ticket. Next to a shiny magical “H” you see the gold printed platform. Platform 9¾. Most of you have read this book. I’m talking about the greatest and most magical book in the world. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone. It starts with a boy named Harry. Harry Potter, Who’s parents were famed for something extraordinary, mysteriously disappeared in a car accident. Doing so at a young age Harry is transported to his Aunt Petunia and bloated Uncle Vernon and their spoiled,bratty, and gluttonous son, Dudley. This book is so many things but bad. It’s exciting and wonderful. The amount of fantasies you can imagine just from the words are immense and fulfilling. You are transported to a world of beauty and fantasy, and that especially goes for Harry Potter, who is forced to live in a closet under the stairs. His entire life changes when things start becoming weird, Owls in large numbers start appearing around his residency, Even a large glass wall suddenly disappears and reappears right before Harry’s eyes. But none compare to the absurd amount of letters Harry receives each day, Each detailed so meticulously with a red H. Aunt Vernon knows it’s time but time for what? Harry is shielded away as his Uncle burns the letters. Day by day more letters are coming until finally, with the help of an extremely large man. Harry opens his letter. Harry is not an ordinary kid. In the words of Hagrid himself. “You’re a wizard Harry!”. Harry receives an invitation letter from the secret Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, now begging for more answers he also realizes the notorious scar on his face is a reminder for a sinister attack made on him from the “one that shall not be named”. Instantly his life changes as he is sent to this “magical school”. But lurking around the corridors there is more to find. The school is not what it seems and something is destroying it’s magic. Only one can fix it and that is Harry Potter. The boy who lived. This book is a joy to read everytime. The author J.K Rowling did a fantastic job with this book and the series and general. Everytime I read this book again, I find another hidden detail or easter egg. This book is hidden so much that people have devoted their life to solving theories about the universe. This book made me feel like something I can’t explain. I don’t know how to word the feeling of imagining that you’re on a broomstick soaring through the air, Or fighting a nasty ogre that runs rampart. This book is amazing and made me want to read it again and again. I also strongly urge you to read this book as well. I may not be Harry Potter but we can try to be like him. He may be nimble but that’s what put him down in History.
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Amazing
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling This is a wonderful stand-alone book. The book opens at 4 Pivet Drive near London. The Dursleys - Vernon, Petunia, and their son Dudley - live there. A cat has been waiting for someone to show up. Soon Abus Dumbledore appears and the cat turns into Professor Minerva McGonagall. They are expecting Rubeus Hagrid with a baby. The baby is none other than Harry Potter - a year old - who just survived the death of his parents at the hands of the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Dumbledore believes that it is best to hide Harry with Muggles - non-magical beings - until he's old enough to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry Potter's life is miserable. His heartless relatives force him to live in a tiny cupboard under the stairs. But his fortune changes when he receives a letter - even though Mr. Dursley tries to prevent Harry from reading his letter. Vernon is ashamed of petunia's sister - who is Harry's mother - and anything that is magical. Hagrid comes for Harry and tells him the truth about himself: he's a wizard. He rescues him from his relatives and takes him to his new home, Hogwarts. After a lifetime of bottling up his magical powers, Harry finally feels like a normal kid. But even within the Wizarding community, he is special. He is the boy who lived: the only person to have ever survived a killing curse inflicted by the evil "He who must not be named," who launched a brutal takeover of the Wizarding world, only to vanish after failing to kill Harry. Though Harry's first year at Hogwarts is the best of his life, not everything is perfect. There is a dangerous secret object hidden within the castle walls - the sorcerer's Stone, and Harry believes it's his responsibility to prevent it from falling into evil hands. But doing so will bring him into contact with forces more terrifying than he ever could have imagined. Narrated from the third-person point of view this is the first of seven books about the magical world of wizards that made reading popular with kids. Nothing short of an amazing fantasy and a world where nothing is what it seems - where good and evil fight one of the most epic battles ever imagined by any human being.
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