I had this book almost immediately after it came out but I only started reading it weeks after. I was really looking forward to opening this mint-condition book and beginning reading, but was busy doing other things at the time. Once I started reading, I couldn't put the book down! It appealed to me so much as you just couldn't wait to turn the next page and read on. J.K.Rowling is an excellent writer for this and I love her rather simplistic yet exciting writing style. Harry Potter is a young boy who lives with his Uncle and the Dursley's. An evil dark wizard called Voldemort had killed his parents Lilly and James many years ago, and a distinct scar was left ...  Read the complete review

It is now 10 years since J.K.Rowling first told her story of Harry Potter and his time at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. But since then the first six books in the series have sold in excess of 325 millions copies worldwide and the seventh and final book in the series Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows was the first book to ever sell over 12 millions in the U.S alone! I will admit to having read the series three times at least. But I am now reading them again and thought it was about time I wrote my own Harry Potter review.. Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone is the first in the series of Seven Books written by J.K.Rowling about a ...  Read the complete review

Well i thought this book would be terrible so i didnt plan on reading it, but my brother bought it in a second hand book store in Spain and on the flight back i starteed to read. I was immediately immersed in the story, characters everything about it Well what is Harry Potter? Harry Potter is the story of a boy who for many years of his life has live with his aunt and uncle under the pretence that his mother and father died in a car crash. However on his eleventh birthday he is visited by a half-giant telling him hes a wizard. Well as you expect he thinks its a joke then he is dragged to a magical street where he buys and wand and other supplies before being ...  Read the complete review

I tried to resist. I really did. I tried so had to ignore the hype but eventually curiosity got the better of me and I had to submit. Yes, Harry Potter had me in his grasp. When I first heard about Harry Potter, I wondered what all the fuss was about. A book about a schoolboy wizard sounded ok – anything to get boys reading I thought. But then it wasn’t only 10-year-old boys who were raving about it. Their sisters were too. And then their parents started. New books about Harry Potter were being released and people were queuing up at ridiculous hours to get their hands on a copy. It was Buzz Lightyear all over again! I decided not to get ...  Read the complete review

Until very recently, I was a complete Harry virgin. The flurry of excitement that preceded each new sequel completely passed me by, and as for the film - well the whole hype about that held as much interest for me as a bowlful of broccoli. In fact, so un-converted was I that for ages I thought J K Rowling’s book for Comic Relief was called ‘Redditch through the Ages’! Anyway, enough of my inadequacies. A work colleague, shocked to hear of my ignorance, made me borrow the first book. And the second. And the third. And the fourth! So here is my opinion on the first one – only four years late, but what the hey . . . THE PLOT ...  Read the complete review