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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

By J.K. Rowling

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| Paperback | 9780747542988

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Book Description

Say you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand and jellybeans that come in every flavour, including strawberry, curry,Continue

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Judging by this first volume, the Harry Potter books are a fine addition to English children's fantasy literature. Harry Potter, orphaned when his parents are killed by the evil wizard Voldemort, is taken in by his aunt and uncle, who are Muggles — o ... (read full critics)

dannyreviews published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010

63 Reviews

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Harry potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

This is one of the best books anyone has ever made.
sometimes i don't even consider it as a book, it seems as if beneath those papers lies life.
The 1st time i read harry potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, i don't know how j.k. rowling did it, but i know she made me feel like i'm a part of the book. ... (continue)

This is one of the best books anyone has ever made.
sometimes i don't even consider it as a book, it seems as if beneath those papers lies life.
The 1st time i read harry potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, i don't know how j.k. rowling did it, but i know she made me feel like i'm a part of the book.
She changes the ambiance where i am in.
books are not the relievers of boredom,
for me it's another world, invisible to the naked eyes of humans.

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cherii said on Jan 15, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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You must read the saga twice...

...to find out that the second time you'll love it even more.
As it always happens with complex plots - and we can't deny that this is such a story - you need to re-read it all once you have finished in order to catch the hidden details JK Rowling has been putting in her books since the very first p ... (continue)

...to find out that the second time you'll love it even more.
As it always happens with complex plots - and we can't deny that this is such a story - you need to re-read it all once you have finished in order to catch the hidden details JK Rowling has been putting in her books since the very first pages. I was pleasantly surprised, honestly, at seeing how many details clarified only in the last two books had been mentioned already in "The Philosophers' Stone".
Without being fanatical: this first book is the basement upon which the story we know rests. We are introduced in a world we've never seen before (truly, even though we might have read other fantasy's masterpieces before) by the brilliant mind of JK Rowling.
It's clear this first book was written for children, but somehow it's as if language and style simply grow up with Harry, Hermione and Ron book after book. Plot goes ahead quickly and soon you forget you are an adult reading a children book: you just want to get to the last page and see how the story'll end.
A pleasure to have read it in English this time. I enjoyed it even more and stopped having goosebumps at reading characters' italianized names. Somehow in English it seems even less childish. Maybe we really lost an awful lot with the Italian translation.

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Drawy82 said on Nov 25, 2011 | Add your feedback

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Letto in italiano, non sembra altro che un libro per bambini. E neanche molto originale.
In inglese rivela la sua natura di piccolo capolavoro di humor britannico. Cosa che vale per tutti i libri della saga, cui la traduzione nostrana non rende assolutamente giustizia.
Bellissimo anche ... (continue)

Letto in italiano, non sembra altro che un libro per bambini. E neanche molto originale.
In inglese rivela la sua natura di piccolo capolavoro di humor britannico. Cosa che vale per tutti i libri della saga, cui la traduzione nostrana non rende assolutamente giustizia.
Bellissimo anche questo, a prescindere dal suo essere l'inizio di un fenomeno editoriale incredibile.
Incipit:
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large moustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbours."

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Erica said on Dec 6, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

The Harry Potter series provides endless amusement and entertainment! No matter how many times I read it, I can't get enough of it!!

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Marsupilamie said on May 11, 2012 | Add your feedback

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It's my second reading of the English books of Harry Potter, and I find this saga one of the most wonderful reading of my life. I loved the swicthing end, and I absolutely adored Snape!!

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Spooky said on Apr 8, 2012 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

It does not to do dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that ...

I always thought that this was the most beautiful phrase and the teaching of the whole saga, and I must say that read it in the original language is even stronger. This reading has left me breathless: it is true that to understand good work, whether it's a fantasy or a masterpiece of classic literat ... (continue)

I always thought that this was the most beautiful phrase and the teaching of the whole saga, and I must say that read it in the original language is even stronger. This reading has left me breathless: it is true that to understand good work, whether it's a fantasy or a masterpiece of classic literature, you need to read in the original language. So many nuances are lost in the translation and rediscover a lot of details you never noticed. I lost count of the times I've read the first volume of Harry Potter but every reading will never be too much and I think that more and more often I will hand this language version.

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Sele said on Mar 15, 2012 | Add your feedback