Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling Reviews

30th June year 1997 will be remembered as the day when Harry Potter was introduced in the real world. From an initial print-run of 500 copies, with 300 being distributed in libraries, Harry Potter has become a mass phenomenon, and has introduced many to the wonderful world of fiction & fantasy reading. J K Rowling has totally managed to ...  Read the complete review

This is the first book in the Harry Potter series. If you somehow haven't heard of this series then it is a series written for children about a wizard called Harry Potter, which explores the wizarding world that he lives in to great extremes. In this individual book, J.K.Rowling sets the building blocks for the series in fantastic ...  Read the complete review

I don't think that the Harry Potter collection needs much introduction. Unless you've been living under a rock for the past decade or so the books have been a storming success making author J.K Rowling a multi millionaire and also huge stars out of the actors cast to play her creations in the movie adaptations. I really only discovered ...  Read the complete review

AMAZING!!! This word sums up this book for me. From never ever hearing about Harry Potter and picking it up by chance and beginning to read it, i was instantly gripped. J.K Rowling could not have started this series of books in a better way. Harry Potter is a young boy who lives with his Aunt and Uncle, however is bullied and ...  Read the complete review

The first book in the popuar series is one of the best; the moment I read it I was hooked! In this first book Harry Potter discovers he is a wizard, and what is more, a very famous wizard, as it was he who defeated the dark wizard Voldemort and saved the world from darkness - when he was just a baby. Harry, on his 11 birthday is ...  Read the complete review

Harry Potter is no ordinary eleven year old boy, on his birthday a giant crashes through his door and tells him that he's a wizard. In the space of a few weeks Harry has got a pet owl and wizard robes and a wand. Poor Harry lost his parents in what he thought was a car crash when he was only one year old. On Harrys arrival in to Hogwarts School of ...  Read the complete review

I have managed to stay away from the Harry Potter crazy for the past few years as both me and my hubby have never seen the appeal of it. Recently though as a change from all the biographies I have been reading I decided I would take the plunge and read the Potter books. The book starts off by introducing us to the Dursley family. ...  Read the complete review

I was introduced to the Harry Potter series quite late on. I didn't read them as I thought they were just children's books and couldn't quite understand what all the fuss was about!!! However I was leant the book and told "I must read it" so I took it on holiday and have never looked back. From the moment I started reading the ...  Read the complete review

When Harry Potter first came out I wasnt sure what all the fuss was about. I had persumed it was a children's book yet there seemed to be adults everywhere reading it and raving about it. Eventually I bought The Philospheres Stone and thought I'd give it a try, although I didn't hold up much hope of getting into it. How wrong ...  Read the complete review

This story of Harry Potter came out when I was about 7 And I started to read it straight away. This book is about an average boy who lost this parents when he was a baby. His mothers sister took him in, though unwillingly. When he turns 10 strange things start to happen around him, especially to his cousin Dudley who is the same age as him and who ...  Read the complete review

The Harry Potter series is now a very successful franchise - 7 books have been written by JK Rowling, they have been translated into many languages, they have been/are being made into equally successful movies (the sixth of which will be released shortly) and there is a whole heap of associated toys/games etc. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's ...  Read the complete review

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first book in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, which is 7 books long. It has been hugely successful and has also led to the production of some excellent movie adaptations, the sixth of which is soon to be released. I think almost everyone in England must have heard of Harry Potter ...  Read the complete review

I didn't want to be one, I don't know how it happened, and there was no warning that it was about to happen...but I am now a Harry Potter fan. I was ever so slightly (!) sceptical before I began reading the book, expecting it to be one of those typically popular-yet-with-no-real-basis-for-its-popularity books and I've always had a ...  Read the complete review

I read this book aged around eight or younger. I cant remember reading it at this age, but it hooked me for life. 'Harry Potter' is now one of the nation's favorite book series. It is something of a classic now. The basic plot, as most people know is one of an orphan boy, aged ten living with his nasty uncle, aunty and cousin. His life gets ...  Read the complete review

Had someone told me a few years ago that I would be reading, no, obsessed with, a series of books about a little wizard boy and his adventures, I'd have laughed at them! Yet somehow, I've managed to read all the books at least 3 times each, have been queuing at midnight to pick up a first copy of the newer books, have been to advance ...  Read the complete review

The book that started it all, Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone is book one of seven telling the life of 11 year old Harry Potter a boy who finds out on his 11th birthday that he is a wizard and that his parents, who died when he was young, were in fact killed because of magic. The wizarding world sits hidden within the world we ...  Read the complete review

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first of seven books in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. The book is about a young boy, aged 10/11, who lives in a house with his Aunt, Uncle and Cousin, because his parents were killed when he was young. The first few chapters talk about Harry's life in this house, and include ...  Read the complete review

Hailed as the start of the best series of junior books ever, J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is considered a ground-breaking book in terms of fantastical mystery and childhood idealism in a boarding school, featuring the most captivating element of all childhood fantasies: magic. This story is about a boy named harry ...  Read the complete review

*Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* This is the first novel in the Harry Potter series and sets the stage for the whole Harry Potter saga. Whilst the book throws up many questions that need answering, there are in fact many clues in this book, even though this is a short book in Harry Potter terms, for what is in store for Harry ...  Read the complete review

------------------------------------------------------------ Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone ----------------------------------------------------------- It was the christmas of 1997 and everyone was in a exited and anticipated mood to open their gifts. I was the first one to be down the stairs to fetch my breakfast ...  Read the complete review