Harry Potter by J K Rowling

Harry Potter is one series that really needs no introductions. One of the most successful of all time, Harry Potter is a classic series for young and old alike.

For those few people who aren't aware of the story, or haven't seen the films, Harry Potter is a young magician to be, an orphan living with his Aunt and Uncle, he is wisked off to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to learn to become a real wizard, like his parents.

Harry also has a destiny, he is the only person to ever survive an encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort...

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The Half Blood Prince

by J K Rowling

The stupidity around the release of this book has grown to new heights. If somebody 10 years ago have told me that a book series would become so popular that, people would go to great lengths as breaking and entering, just to read the next volume before everybody else, I probably wouldn't have believed it. All in all I think it's a positive ting (not the breaking and entering...). Anything that will draw positive attention towards books and that will show young people that reading can bring g...

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reviewed on Saturday 30 July 2005

The Order of the Phoenix

by J K Rowling

The latest book in the Harry Potter series is twice as long as the previous one (which was twice as long as the one before it), it darker and somebody actually dies in it. Somebody not evil. That doesn't make it worth reading though.

The fact that it's well written and highly entertaining, does make it worth reading though. As you may remember from the end of book four (I'm guessing that you've read the previous four book, if not, what are you doing here? Go read them and then ...

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reviewed on Wednesday 16 July 2003

The Goblet of Fire

by J K Rowling

The first thing that you notice when you pick up this, the fourth volume in the Potter saga, is that it's more than twice as thick as any of the previous Potter books. The first thing that you notice when you start reading it, is that it doesn't start of like the other books, with Harry living with the Dursleys.

Instead we get a bit with you-know-who and his struggle to… regain himself. This is scary stuff! Rowling is wandering of the path that worked so well in the first thre...

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reviewed on Thursday 21 March 2002

The Prisoner of Azkaban

by J K Rowling

I’m really impressed. Rowling has managed what to write a series of books, where at least the first three are wonderful. That isn’t something that you see everyday.

…The prisoner of Azkaban, starts of exactly like the first two Potter books, with Harry enduring the Dursleys and looking forward his return to Hogwart. And after a small detour we end up at Hogwarts exactly as expected. And this is where I’ve a small chance at actually criticising Rowling – I found the first few c...

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reviewed on Thursday 07 March 2002

The Chamber of Secrets

by J K Rowling

In one of the most hotly anticipated sequels in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left with Harry's second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girl's bathroom, an outrageously conceited professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, and a mysterious force that turns Hogwarts students to stone.

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reviewed on Saturday 01 December 2001

The Philosophers Stone

by J K Rowling

(Seems to be titled "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in the US).

Not a word about Hollywood and the movie (which I will be seeing in a couple of days). Not a word about the merchandise and kids dressed as Potter. Not a word about how this book made the kids read again. Just the book.

Some of my favourite books are kids/young adult books. Have Spacesuit, Will Travel by Heinlein has to have a spot somewhere on my all time top ten. The lure of books written f...

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reviewed on Thursday 01 November 2001