So I read the newest editions of the books that I’m going to collect. I have so many different collections I’ll probably add later. In these new books I actually love the art on all the pages instead of the interactive stuff. I put together a collage of a couple pages






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Where in shit’s ass is my review with all of the pics of the illustrations from the book in it!! Rat bastards!!

Anyhoo, reread on Audible

Beyond amazing! Way to start the new year! :)

I've read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone way back in High School but I wasn't able to finish it because sad to say, my book was lost. :( And now, thanks to my lovely friend Allie who gave me a copy of this book, I became interested to read it once again and bring back the old times' feels.

And WOW! Just WOW! Thank goodness I decided to read it again because it felt so magical and magnificent and totally breathtaking! -- exactly what I've felt the first time I've read this.



Harry Potter is such a great, well-fleshed out character. Despite being parentless and being bullied both in the Muggle world and Hogwarts by some kids, he still stood up and even became a great friend to Ron, Hermione, Neville, and the others.

This story had lots of exciting adventures and I really enjoyed everything that happened in this book. It was just so awesome! The secondary characters are also perfect. I especially love Hermione and her genius mind! Ron's loyalty towards Harry is also awe-inspiring, as well as Neville's adorable clumsiness. When it comes to its plotline, it's amazingly done. The twist was unpredictable and there was humor in every page that made me laugh. What's even great are the lessons and the message that are instilled to every reader, fantasy and magic aside.

n  n    "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."n  n

I loved all the chapters and my favorites are:

The Boy Who Lived, The Vanishing Glass, Diagon Alley, The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, The Sorting Hat, and Quidditch.

No wonder why this book and the whole series continues to be a real sensation. J.K. Rowling is so brilliant she bewitched me with her world! So excited to find out more about this series and to see what's in store for Harry in the next books. :)

Rating:

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Why didn’t anyone tell me —haha —-
I can’t use that excuse —-

Harry Potter is a WIZARD......I had no idea.....
I thought he was a funny looking kid - with funny hair - and round glasses.

It’s true....HARRY POTTER is very famous. J. K. Rowling knew Harry Potter would be ‘famous’ -FOR REAL-
Hello?, with 59,157 customers reviews on Amazon - averaging 5 stars - I’d say he’s a very ‘LIKABLE’ HARRY POTTER ‘FAMOUS’ boy too!

How in the world does a first time author —- this was the first Harry Potter, book, yes? - have the vision to not only create a wizardly wonderful story centered around a neglected boy who lived in a cupboard - with his sad history- know that he
would become a hero....the world’s most famous *HARRY POTTER*? AMAZING!

Book girl -Bossy know-it- all, *Hermione*, chess player great friend *Ron*, street-smart wizardly guide *Hagrid*, father figure *Dumbledore*, etc. etc. etc...major and/or minor characters ....THEY COME ALVE! - Great Characters!

....cats, toads, owls, flying motorcycle ....muggles .....( great new word).....
....wizard boarding school...( of course — it seemed so normal -I BELIEVE)....
....food, - sausages- turkey- cake- chocolate frogs- etc. games, rewards, birthdays - Christmas - punishments, hero’s, villains, sports ( Quiddich)....such a cool game....twists and turns .....suspense
The wave of a magic wand.....HARRY POTTER sure got a magical wizardly lesson of bravery at ‘Wizard Boarding School’.

Incredible.... I honestly ‘never’ thought I’d enjoy Harry Potter, ‘this much’.
I must have been missing some marbles.

An extraordinary book for all ages .....something people have been saying FOR AGES!!!!

How can more than half of my Goodreads friends be wrong with this?

I have to get this right. As of this writing, I have 98 Goodreads friends. 61 (62%) of them have read J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Out of those who read this, 39 (64%) rated this with 5 stars. 11 of them with 4 stars. All the others gave 3 or 2. Only 2 rated this with 1 star. One of them admitted not being able to finish it. She should not have rated it really since she did not read its entirety. (But she is my friend and it is her right, so why question?)

When the book came out in 1998, I was not yet a bookworm so I brushed this aside. I read only those books that my brother told me to read. He was the bookworm but he would not be caught reading any book being pushed by media hype. However, when Warner Bros. released the film adaptation in 2001, my daughter was 6 years old and I thought that, since there was too much hype, the movie must be good and we would have a memorable time with our first ever father-daughter movie date. I was wrong. She not only got scared because of the darkness inside the movie house but she trembled with fear during the life-size human chess game, in that scene when Ron was sacrificed. We left the movie in that scene with my daughter crying and me cursing it: n  I will never read Harry Pottern.

My daughter is now 15 going 16. She is not fond of movies and she still does not show interest on reading Harry Potter. However, I am now a bookworm and the other week, I was with my 4 Goodreads friends and 3 of them raved (two of them, again) about Harry Potter books. Oh well, first-time fathers can make mistakes about first movie date with their daughters, Book 1 is included in 500 Must Read Books and the book must be a quick read. So the following day, I bought my copy.

After 13 years of the book's existence and me ignoring it, did I finally make a good decision of reading it? Are all of those 39 friends of mine in Goodreads wrong in giving this 5 stars? Most of them did not bother writing a review. Maybe those would be too long or maybe they read this when they were not in Goodreads yet. But I am in Goodreads already so I can make this review long.

These are what some of them say:

it was a great book
i enjoyed reading it

For an eloquent reviewer, she must have been too happy to express herself.

Such a great story and creative way of writing. I love Harry Potter.

Yes, I agree about the story being great and J. K. Rowling being creative.

I was secretly wishing I was studying in Hogwarts too! It was silly, but I was simply enraptured by Harry Potter. Honestly, I still am :) It was a great book. I enjoyed reading it

Coming from one of my favorite reviewers in Goodreads. I do not share her wanting to be a sorcerer though.

Honestly, I don't know anybody who'd refuse to even entertain the thought of attending a school for wizards.

Another one of my favorite reviewers. That seems to have nailed this. Young people wanting to be in Hogwarts and study sorcery. That should be it! The world seems to be a dreadful place that we would all like to have powers to turn our enemies into frogs, pigs, ride on a broomstick and get the Snitch and earn points (money) for our family!

Oh well, the Bible says that sorcery is Satan's work. The book even used the word Transfiguration as a subject in the sorcery school. Blasphemy.

Just kidding. This is a work of fiction and I am not too old to appreciate it. I was just kidding. To be frank, I tried hard not to like this. I thought that giving this a 1 or 2 will freak out my friends and somehow get votes from those who are, up to now, ignoring this book. I told you so! Why waste your time? . However, unless you are a grumpy old man/woman, there is nothing not to like about this book. I maybe too old for it but hey, talent is talent and J. K. Rowling has it!

My 39 friends are indeed right!

This book was okay. I didn't hate it or love it either way, though towards the end I realized how lukewarm I felt about the story since I would prefer to read any other book I had on hand. I appreciate the level of novelty in the world-building during the time this was first published. The friendship between the trio is cute. Hermione and Ron are fun characters and I might have enjoyed the book more if they had been the main protagonists. Downsides: I cringed at the excessive fatphobia, anti-semitism, and the turban part. I also didn't like that the final action of the book got skipped over quickly by having a fade-to-black moment and then a lengthy explanation told by one of the side characters. It felt like such an abrupt way to end the story... but TBH, I was glad to be done with it so I could move on to other books lol.

Can 35 Million Book Buyers Be Wrong? Yes.

Taking arms against Harry Potter, at this moment, is to emulate Hamlet taking arms against a sea of troubles. By opposing the sea, you won't end it. The Harry Potter epiphenomenon will go on, doubtless for some time, as J. R. R. Tolkien did, and then wane.

The official newspaper of our dominant counter-culture, The New York Times, has been startled by the Potter books into establishing a new policy for its not very literate book review. Rather than crowd out the Grishams, Clancys, Crichtons, Kings, and other vastly popular prose fictions on its fiction bestseller list, the Potter volumes will now lead a separate children's list. J. K. Rowling, the chronicler of Harry Potter, thus has an unusual distinction: She has changed the policy of the policy-maker.

Imaginative Vision

I read new children's literature, when I can find some of any value, but had not tried Rowling until now. I have just concluded the 300 pages of the first book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," purportedly the best of the lot. Though the book is not well written, that is not in itself a crucial liability. It is much better to see the movie, "The Wizard of Oz," than to read the book upon which it was based, but even the book possessed an authentic imaginative vision. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" does not, so that one needs to look elsewhere for the book's (and its sequels') remarkable success. Such speculation should follow an account of how and why Harry Potter asks to be read.

The ultimate model for Harry Potter is "Tom Brown's School Days" by Thomas Hughes, published in 1857. The book depicts the Rugby School presided over by the formidable Thomas Arnold, remembered now primarily as the father of Matthew Arnold, the Victorian critic-poet. But Hughes' book, still quite readable, was realism, not fantasy. Rowling has taken "Tom Brown's School Days" and re-seen it in the magical mirror of Tolkein. The resultant blend of a schoolboy ethos with a liberation from the constraints of reality-testing may read oddly to me, but is exactly what millions of children and their parents desire and welcome at this time.

In what follows, I may at times indicate some of the inadequacies of "Harry Potter." But I will keep in mind that a host are reading it who simply will not read superior fare, such as Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" or the "Alice" books of Lewis Carroll. Is it better that they read Rowling than not read at all? Will they advance from Rowling to more difficult pleasures?

Rowling presents two Englands, mundane and magical, divided not by social classes, but by the distinction between the "perfectly normal" (mean and selfish) and the adherents of sorcery. The sorcerers indeed seem as middle-class as the Muggles, the name the witches and wizards give to the common sort, since those addicted to magic send their sons and daughters off to Hogwarts, a Rugby school where only witchcraft and wizardry are taught. Hogwarts is presided over by Albus Dumbeldore as Headmaster, he being Rowling's version of Tolkein's Gandalf. The young future sorcerers are just like any other budding Britons, only more so, sports and food being primary preoccupations. (Sex barely enters into Rowling's cosmos, at least in the first volume.)

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The first half of a little piece I wrote from the Journal in July 2000. Rest is available at [http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/courses/205...].

While I do not support the author of this series, I still really enjoy this book and it has helped me through some of the hardest times of my life.

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Number of times read as of March 2023: 6

Favorite moments/quotes from this book (spoiler warning in case you haven't got a chance to pick up this book yet):

"Yes, yes, it's all very sad, but get a grip on yourself, Hagrid"

"Once, Aunt Petunia, tired of Harry coming back from the barbers looking as though he hadn't been at all, had taken a pair of kitchen scissors and cut his hair so short he was almost bald except for his bangs, which she left 'to hide that horrible scar.'"

"...he'd gotten into terrible trouble for being found on the roof of the school kitchens. Dudley's gang had been chasing him as usual when, as much to Harry's surprise as anyone else's, there he was sitting on the chimney."

"...Dudley had already broken his new video camera, crashed his remote control airplane, and, first time out on his racing bike, knocked down old Mrs. Figg as she crossed Privet Drive on her crutches."

"The tub was full of what looked like dirty rags swimming in gray water.
'What's this?' he asked Aunt Petunia. Her lips tightened as they always did if he dared ask a question.
'Your new school uniform,' she said.
'Oh,' he said, 'I didn't realize it had to be so wet.'"

"Twenty four letters to Harry found their way into the house, rolled up and hidden inside each of the two dozen eggs that their very confused milkman had handed Aunt Petunia through the living room window."

"Hagrid took up two seats and sat knitting what looked like a canary-yellow circus tent."

"' Harry Potter ,' chorused the twins.
'Oh, him,' said Harry. 'I mean, yes, I am.'"

"'Oh, are you a prefect , Percy?' said one of the twins with an air of great surprise. 'You should have said something, we had no idea.'
'Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it,' said the other twin. 'Once -"
'Or twice-'
'A minute-'
'All summer-'"

"'If I get one more owl telling me you've - you've blown up a toilet or-'
'Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet.'
'Great idea though, thanks, Mom.'"

"...their younger sister began to cry.
'Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls.'
'We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat.'"

"'How exactly do they sort us into house?' he asked Ron.
'Some sort of text, I think. Fred said it hurts a lot, but I think he was joking.'"

"Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"

"Great Uncle Algie came round for dinner, and he was hanging me out of an upstairs window by the ankles when my Great Auntie Enid offered him a meringue and he accidentally let go. But I bounced- all the way down the garden and into the road. They were all really pleased"

"'Excuse me, Professor Flitwick, could I borrow Wood for a moment?'
Wood? thought Harry, bewildered; was Wood a cance she was going to use on him?"

"...never forget Wizard Baruffio, who said 's' instead of 'f' and found himself on the floor with a buffalo on his chest."

"But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them."

"...the three of them were out in the freezing courtyard during break, and she had conjured them up a bright blue fire that could be carried around in a jam jar."

"'Send him off, red! Red card!'
'What are you talking about, Dean?' said Ron.
'Red card! said Dean. 'In soccer you get shown the red card and you're out of the game.'
'But this isn't soccer, Dean'"

"...the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban."

"'And you could ask your parents if they know who Flamel is,' said Ron. 'It'd be safe to ask them.'
'Very safe, as they're both dentists'"

"I supposed she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid - we know we're called Gred and Forge."

"They frog-marched Percy from the room, his arms pinned to his side by his sweater."

"I see myself holding a pair of thick, woolen socks."

"Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her."

"'You're worth twelve of Malfoy,' Harry said. 'The Sorting Hat chose you for Gryffindor, didn't it? And where's Malfoy? In stinking Slytherin.'"

"And I gave Mmalfoy a black eye, and Neville tried to take on Crabbe and Goyle singled-handed!"

"Professor Flitwick called them one by one into his class to see if they could make a pineapple tapdance across a desk."

"The Weasley twins and Lee Jordan were ticling the tentacles of a giant squid, which was basking in the warm shallows."

"'So light a fire!' Harry choked.
'Yes - of course - but there's no wood!' Hermione cried, wringing her hands.
'HAVE YOU GONE MAD?' Ron bellowed. 'ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT?'"

" Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind, Two of us will help you, whichever you would find "

"Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery"

"I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat."

"After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."

"'The truth,' Dumbledore sighed. 'It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.'"

"If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark."

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

And since I'm trying to be transparent about problematic content in books, especially in books that I enjoy, this book has a problem with fatphobia. The way that fat people are described is awful and people's weight often become the butt of jokes.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone = Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1), J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fantasy novel written by British author J.K. Rowling.

It is the first novel in the Harry Potter series and Rowling's debut novel, first published in 1997 by Bloomsbury.

It was published in the United States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by Scholastic Corporation in 1998.

The plot follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage as he makes close friends and a few enemies in his first year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

With the help of his friends, Harry faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents, but failed to kill Harry when he was just 15 months old.

عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «هری پاتر و اکسیر جاودانگی»؛ «هری پاتر و سنگ جادو»؛ «هری پاتر و اکسیر»؛ «هری پاتر و سنگ معجزه گر»؛ «هری پاتر و سنگ کیمیا»؛ «هری پاتر و سنگ کیمیاگری»؛ «هری پاتر و سنگ فیلسوف»؛ نویسنده: جی.کی رولینگ؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش ماه نوامبر سال 1997م و بار دیگر در ماه می سال 2001میلادی

عنوان: مجموعه هری پاتر - کتاب 1یک- هری پاتر و اکسیر جاودانگی؛ نویسنده: جی.کی رولینگ؛ مترجم: محمد قصاع؛ تهران، موسسه فرهنگی و هنری آدینده نگار؛ 1379؛ در 357ص؛ چاپ دوم 1381؛ شابک 9789649270708؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیایی - سده 20م

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هری پاتر و اکسیر جاودانگی، سرگذشت پسرکی به نام «هری» است که در دنیای انسانهای عادی «ماگلها» با خانواده ای که او را به سختی پذیرفته اند زندگی میکند؛ سپس میفهمد که او به دنیایی تعلق دارد، که پدر و مادرش جزئی از آن بوده اند: «دنیای جادوگران»؛ آن دو (پدر و مادر هری) در نبرد با بزرگترین جادوگر جادوی سیاه از بین رفته اند؛ داستان، سراسر آکنده از رخداد است و طنز مخصوص خانم «رولینگ» آن را بسیار دلپسند کرده، نویسنده، جهانی موازی و در عین حال در خود همین جهان آفریده اند، ای سری ادامه دار است؛ ده یازده سال پیش بود و فرزندانم که نوجوان بودند، بسیار این سری را دوست میداشتند؛ برای اینکه بدانم، چه چیزی برای آنها اینقدر جالب است و جذابیت مجموعه در چیست؛ خود نیز آغاز به خوانش نخستین جلد مجموعه کردم؛ همان که نوشتم، دنیای جدید خانم «رولینگ»، مرا به خلسه و خیال فروبرد، خود را نوجوانی انگاشتم تشنه ی دانستن رازهای جادو، جلدهای بعدی را، یواشکی و پیش از بچه هایم میخریدم و میخواندم

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 19/08/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 24/07/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

¿Cuántas veces he releído la saga de Harry Potter? Hace muchos años que perdí la cuenta...

Update: 23/8/2018 My review is still hidden from view on GR. If it were listed on the community reviews, it would be the third highest voted 1 star review. In fact, since it has now been hidden for five years, maybe it would be the highest. It was the highest voted negative review prior to removing it from view.

Should I make a list of my reviews in order of how proud I am of them, this would be somewhere in the dark. However, that doesn't seem like the point. The fact that it had 140 likes and several hundred comments has to count for something. As far as I can see, I haven't broken the rules of engagement on GR in this review.

I've decided to enquire further as to whether I might be reinstated. I wonder if they ever do that?

The REVIEW.

Enough. I'm putting this one to bed. I so don't want to finish it.

‘Not enough sex’ was my first thought, but then we do get to this part where boys are discussing the length and capacities of their wands and I perked up for a moment until I realised that they were actually talking about wands.

You will say that this is a book for children and that sex has no part in it, but, I think Randall has it right, as usual:

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XKCD's take on young boys

Now, I don’t know a whole lot about boys on the verge of pubescence, but I’m fairly sure they are more interested in willies than wands. Perhaps this book would have sold better if the author had regarded that piece of advice. (Note to self: check if anybody bought this book. Perhaps the author would appreciate my thoughts.)

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So, I keep getting hate comments for this review and I thought it would be nice if you all had a place you could get together and badmouth it. Announcing....

A new group:

People who hate my Harry Potter review....

Come this way:

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/4...

I'd be honoured if you joined. And I'm really sorry to all the people who wrote comments here which I misguidedly deleted.

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20 August 2013: My Harry Potter review has been flagged and censored.

Given that the review itself has experienced its own form of peer judgement via the voting system and given that it has been up for a couple of years or more I wonder if this is part of the new Amazon way?

To quote the advice sent to me:

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Your review of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was recently flagged as inappropriate. As the review is not about the book, it will not be shown on the community book page. For more information about our review policies, please see our review guidelines.
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The review guidelines are here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/guide...

I really, really loved this.
Reading vlog is up : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_-20...

Book two, here I come!!
4 STARS
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on hiatus since 2017 lol

My original review was a comparison of sorts between Harry Potter and Twilight. However, this is stupid as the two are incomparable. Honestly, its not even worth discussing. Its not just that Twilight doesn't come close, it is the fact that Harry Potter transcends other similar works. Its peerless. To quote Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction: It "ain't the same fuckin' ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fuckin' sport."

There was a day when I thought I needed to defend Harry Potter, in the midst of the now dead Twilight craze, and you can see that below in what was my original review. It is a testament to the power of this series, that while various other franchises (Twilight, Hunger Games) have surged into popularity and then faded, Harry Potter remains unwaveringly strong after nineteen years. It is clear readers hold just as much admiration for these books as they always have. Time has not dimmed that.
I will, one day, write an essay about what these books mean to me. Eternal, this is the one that started it all.

Original review (circa 2010)
A note in regard to the on-going Potter vs Twilight debate:
Go ahed, tell me Twilight is better.
Tell me that James is scarier than Voldemort,
That the Cullens are a better family than the Weasly's
That Edward is cooler than Harry,
and Bella is smarter than Hermione.
Tell me that Stephenie Meyer is more talented than J.K. Rowling.

Go ahead,
I dare you.

Those who think the topic of Harry Potter or Twilight is worth debating and arguing over,
are utterly stupid.

Quite frankly-this book is amazing.