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Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. (Joanne) Rowling

Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone

1st Published in UK as Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone

by J.K. (Joanne) Rowling
  • Critics' Consensus (7):
  • Readers' Rating (220):
  • First Published:
  • Sep 1, 1998, 309 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Sep 1999, 312 pages
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Archangel_isthe_END!!!

This book id the best that ive read ever!!! i cannot wait for her next Harry Potter book coming out this summer!!! yeah!
J&A

Harry Potters amazing,
The film was fantastic,
The book was life like,
and J.k Rowling is the best.


This book was so great! I love the whole harry potter series!
My friends think I am a dork but I dont CARE!! I LOVE HARRY POTTER.
I am a christian and I dont see anything wrong with letting people read these books. ITS CALLED FICTION!!! duh!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, J.K, your doing a great job keep them coming!!!!

LOVE YOU ALL!
GOD BLESS!
from valie0404
email me at valie0404@hotmail.com
Girl from Hong Kong

So Great
Pig
I'm a girl from Hong Kong. I'd never interested in English Book. But Harry Potter Series make an exceptions! It's SOOOOOOOOO GREAT! It's make me use all my pocket money to buy all 4 of them! I just can tell u it's the Most WONDERFUL book I've ever read.
Emily Rose

Foreshadowing and Red Herring
The plot had some very interesting twists and turns and kept the reader engaged as well as setting up some foreshadowing for future books or for later in the book. I loved the red herring effect of Professor Snape and the way that he comes across as evil when in reality (spoiler alert) Professor Quirrell is the real villain who keeps Voldemort under the turban. I loved J.K.'s imagination and skill when i comes to making up new creatures or new things even taking old things in revamping them in a modern way. Overall this book is a very good read an it is nice to start this series when you are younger and to continue reading as you mature.
Owin

Good
This book is good I think you would like it.
kady

Not my favorite, but I still love it!
I love the sorcerers stone book, it's the first of the series, it's just not as good as the others. But I definitely recommend!!!!
Glia

Waited a decade to read this. It is surprisingly good.
Years ago, my classmates were all excited about the Harry Potter book series and I thought it was just a fad. Then came the movies... and surprisingly, until now HP is still very famous and a lot of the people I know speak highly of this book. I got curious and started to read this book.

I was surprised. It is really a good book. It is very nice and easy to read and very enjoyable. I didn't get bored reading every page of the book, which is surprising because I easily get bored with most of the books out there. I even rewatched the movie before I continued with the remaining chapters of the book. The writing is excellent. It answered some of my questions in the movie. Well, of course, the movie just shows highlights of the book. I gave it only four because there are still some questions which are left unanswered, but I think it will be given light in the next books or not... I wouldn't know if I don't read all of them!

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