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A review by brisingr
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
4.0
I am so late in the Harry Potter phenomena. I am 17 and barely now starting to read the series (I lie, I've read the first volume once, before, when i was 9 or 10, but I don't remember much, so it was a real pleasure reading it this time too).
I suppose there is no need to say what Harry Potter is about, even those who haven't read it have quite extended knowledges on the world of Hogwarts and its hero with round glasses and lightning scar.
I have been told from the beggining that the style might be a little bit childish, fit for a children's book, but this wasn't a real problem for me. I love children books and my nine years old self enthusiastically screamed at lots of parts from this book. The me now simply laughed and read those parts out loud to her deskmate. I mean... Ok, maybe the style isn't that great right now in the first book (from what I've heard, it evolves together with the story), but the characters' charm is obvious from the very beggining, which I didn't exactly expect from the first book in a series. They are only kids, but each of them has something magical and special, powerful and invincible, and the fact that I could see this from the very first volume simply made me love the characters to the maximum.
And Hogwarts is a big, perfect craziness! I'd do almost impossible things just to be allowed to go to a school of magic! All you have to do is to study about magic and only magic (and for us, muggle-borns this is just fascinating!). The simple fact that this school is based on magic, makes it special. And the happenings there are the same type of weirdness, be it either a game of footbal-basketball-baseball on brooms, or playing with 'pets'. It's simply that place that you can only dream and sigh about. But the chance of reading about it was enough to make me fascinated.
It wasn't a book that made me feel too strongly, but it was a book that brought me joy. And I know for sure that the series is only getting better and better, so I am looking forward to that!
I suppose there is no need to say what Harry Potter is about, even those who haven't read it have quite extended knowledges on the world of Hogwarts and its hero with round glasses and lightning scar.
I have been told from the beggining that the style might be a little bit childish, fit for a children's book, but this wasn't a real problem for me. I love children books and my nine years old self enthusiastically screamed at lots of parts from this book. The me now simply laughed and read those parts out loud to her deskmate. I mean... Ok, maybe the style isn't that great right now in the first book (from what I've heard, it evolves together with the story), but the characters' charm is obvious from the very beggining, which I didn't exactly expect from the first book in a series. They are only kids, but each of them has something magical and special, powerful and invincible, and the fact that I could see this from the very first volume simply made me love the characters to the maximum.
And Hogwarts is a big, perfect craziness! I'd do almost impossible things just to be allowed to go to a school of magic! All you have to do is to study about magic and only magic (and for us, muggle-borns this is just fascinating!). The simple fact that this school is based on magic, makes it special. And the happenings there are the same type of weirdness, be it either a game of footbal-basketball-baseball on brooms, or playing with 'pets'. It's simply that place that you can only dream and sigh about. But the chance of reading about it was enough to make me fascinated.
It wasn't a book that made me feel too strongly, but it was a book that brought me joy. And I know for sure that the series is only getting better and better, so I am looking forward to that!