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Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets by J.K. (Joanne) Rowling

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Book 2

by J.K. (Joanne) Rowling
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  • First Published:
  • Jun 1, 1999, 341 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Aug 2000, 352 pages
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i dont know

i like this book very much even though i have barely started. it is pretty funny and cool well at lest thats what people tell me. i want to start reading it now!!!
Tyler

Its a good book but it was a really wired out of the three other books. but the best part in the book was when Harry and Ron are in the blue car flying after the train and it crashs on the school grounds.The funniest part in the book is when they get a howler. If those were real and I got one I would throw it away and forget about it.but still it was a good book.
Leah Kaymin

I give this book a 4 rating because it shows children friendship but it also talks about witchcraft which is not suitable for any child to be reading about.
steen taylor

I think that the book was boring at the beginning but very interesting at the end.
Unicorn

This book was good, but it came out with some suspense that scared. There needs to be some difference in the books, the villian mabey?
blubber

ah
The first one was way better. I hate how harry is always in the wrong place at the wrong time! And then everyone suspects him, and that makes NO sense! Poor Ginny! I feel so bad for her in this book! But seriously, does Harry always have to play the hero? It's kind of tiring after a while. In one of these books Ron and Hermione and Neville should end up saving Harry. That would be nice.
the Little Critic

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets does not live up to its phenomenol predecessor in a number of ways. The setting still remains the same, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and a new mystery has to be solved by Harry Potter(of course) and his friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. The supense is great, but sometimes I just believe Ms. Rowling tries to hard to make her book scary and the end result is comical when its not supposed to be. For instance the Whomping Willow, great in the movie, bland in the book. Also the spiders; she only wrote two lines about them chasing Ron and Harry, the movie equivalent was much longer and much more frightning. Now don't get me wrong, I love reading the books better than seeing the movie. I believe that J.K. Rowling is a wonderful author that keeps her reader's attention from page one to the end. She just tried to hard in this book and the Chamber of Secrets is probably the weakest of all the four books. Still a decent read though.
Bridie Thompson

I found this both interesting and boring JK Rowling has a talent, but in the begining of all her books she takes too long to get to the real exciting bits. I must say the best book out of the collection is prisoner of Azkaban. It was like a mystery you were not sure which person was the real murderer. I'm not saying Rowling is bad, but I believe at the end of every chapter, there should be more suspense.
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