J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone

Pros: Great detail. Great story. Written from a kids perspective.

Cons: A little scary at times.

The Bottom Line: Great for Kids! Great for Adults! Adventure, Fantasy, Magic! Let Your Imagination Run Wild!!

Review: Harry Potter has become a part of our family. We own all of the books, and have listened to them on tape as a family. And we have heard/read the stories of his life more than once. J.K. Rowling has definitely brought my family together...

Pros: both children & adults can enjoy this book

Cons: none

Review: Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone is the first in a seven book series written by J.K. Rowling. Although written as a children's book for upper elementary level readers, many adults, this one included, have jumped on the Harry Potter...

Pros: Great characters, holds your attention well. Great for children or adults.

Cons: I had to put the book down to sleep.

The Bottom Line: Great series for any age.

Review: Yes I am 27 years old and I am a huge Harry Potter fan!
I decided to take a stab at writing a review for the first book.
This book consists of 288 pages and 17 chapters. And this review is VERY long.

Please note that this...

Pros: Delightfully engrossing story that came to life. The book got children reading.

Cons: None for me

The Bottom Line: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was a wonderful first book in a series by J.K. Rowling. It is considered a children's book, but adults can enjoy it too.

Review: I m an adult and I love Harry Potter. I have seen the two movies and I have all four of the books. I reserved a copy of the fifth book months ago. I had been hearing about the Harry Potter books for a while before I read any of them. My best friend...

Pros: Entertaining, funny and thought provoking reading.

Cons: Lot of controversary with Christians on the basin of these books

Review: Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

I started to read this first Harry Potter story simply because of all the hoopla over the newest Potter novel being released earlier this year. I wanted to know what my...

Pros: Everyone can now stop nagging me to read it.

Cons: Having to swallow my pride.

The Bottom Line: The be-all and the end-all it?s not. Deserving most of what everyone says about it it is. If only every book deserving such recognition were to have it.

Review: It takes a certain kind of arrogance to think you re not wasting anybody s time by writing the 724th review of a book that everyone else in the world seems to have already read. The kind of arrogance that manifests itself in the pleasure of...

Pros: well-shaped plot line, keeps a child's interest (kept mine too!), a story that took me back to books I enjoyed as a child

Cons: none...unless you forget the book was written for children, then you might not like the grammar used

Review: Some time back I became intensely curious about what the hype was about over these Harry Potter stories. All these people keep proclaiming that because of the Harry Potter stories their children are now readers. I said to myself, ?The children...

Pros: Wonderful escapism, good triumphs. Let me repeat that: GOOD TRIUMPHS. (Sorry for shouting.)

Cons: I refuse to find them today

The Bottom Line: Yes, it does live up to the hype.

Review: 458 reviews, or was it 468? That's how many people have already weighed in on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by JK Rowling. Normally, I wouldn't bother writing a review.

But tonight? Tonight is a night that cries out for...

Pros: Good children's book.

Cons: No one seems to know it's a children's book.

The Bottom Line: For what it is, it is very good. For what it is not, it is depressingly what it is.

Review:

There is really only so much scoffing a person can take.

Not that long ago I wrote a review of ?The Old Curiosity Shop? by Dickens, one of the best works in literature (IMHO). Not his most famous work, of course, but let?s face...

Pros: TOP NOTCH CHILDREN'S BOOK

Cons: Children seven years and younger may be frightened a little

Review: Being an Anglophile, I took particular delight in the magical England of author J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, her debut novel about the adventures of Harry, Hermione, and Ron, a curious trio of "new best friends" at...