(re-read: 20/Oct/11)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s
stone
Harry
Potter series, book 1
Pub: Great Britain in 1997 by Bloomsbury.
Author: J. K. Rowling
Cat: fantasy & Magical realism
Format: paperback (mid); 223 pp w/ 17
chapters
Age Range: middle grade
Summary
Harry
Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy – until he is rescued by a beetle-eyed
giant of a man, enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizards, learns to
play quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The reason HARRY POTTER IS A
WIZARD!
my Thoughts (review)
I would love to have been
able to pick up this book and read it fresh, nothing but nothing in the way of
what this story really is. But instead I watched the movie first, fell in love
with it, and didn’t read this one until, I think, Order of the Phoenix came out
on movie, and that was after I finished the series first. (This was due to the
fact that I’m a shit reader—though I’m better now, I was still shit)
Still I loved the book. my
first read—back when I bought it—was more about seeing the movie behind the
book, seeing what was there and used, I didn’t really take in much of the story
that I hadn’t seen, and so with that thought, it was only the movie that I remembered.
And this one was so along the lines of the book that I can really see why it became so popular so quickly and why everyone
that read the books loved the movie. It was one of the great ones.
This read I actually saw the
book, read, and took in what was
really there—though I’m sure it wasn’t the first time.
This book is amazing and you
can already see the finer workings of the full story making itself known even
there, you can see that she had most of the end story line already mapped out
in her head when this book came out, it was new, and impressive world that had
rich characters, and creatures, they seemed as if they were hidden back there
for the centuries they had been.
Even the characters at a
young age feel it. It’s one of the only books I have read that the characters
really have a feel of growth as the books go on and you can really see the
youngness—the naiveté in the three main characters in this book. Which is
absolutely amazing.
It’s one of those books that
if you haven’t read it, you should make the time, especially if you are a fan
of the movies. And if you haven’t seen or read any... well, where the hell have
you been?
Thought on the movie: great, loved it. I was one of the ones
that, since I was 15-16? when it first came out I didn’t watch this one at the
theatre, but when it came out on DVD I took it in and I didn’t stop watching
the thing. I absolutely loved it. More than I thought I would have. And I
became a fan (though I have never been overly, I don’t know what my house is,
or any of that crap. I don’t own anything but all the movies in two disk sets.
But fan I am.
Series
[this book], and the Chamber of Secrets, and the
Prisoner of Azkaban, and the Goblet of Fire, and the Order of the Phoenix, and
the Half-Blood Prince, and the Deathly Hallows
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