Books : Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-6)

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Rating:

- Nice boxed set for the money
A nice set. I would love to have one for all 7 books but not for the hardcover at sky high prices. This is a great alternative.

Recommended.

Rating:

- Get them, read them, love them
Great series, great characters, great writing. The story is engrossing, the characters are flawed and human, which makes them lovable and the magic is real. I wasn't really interested in reading these. I had already seen the first four movies and didn't have any desire to read the books. My mother got me to read the first one and I found I couldn't put it down. I immediately ordered this set and read through the books in a couple of months. I love them! The books are much better than the movies and I recommend them to anyone who loves good fiction, adults & children alike.

Rating:

- Good value but poor binding
Good value for money; however, the binding is not as good as I had expected. I can see that pages will start falling out before my sons finish reading the six books

Rating:

- Good, but missing pages!!
The shipment arrived in time and I was able to enjoy all the books except for the 7th and last one, but my BIG problem was that the third book was missing about 100 pages!! I couldn't believe it, it was seriously frustrating when getting into the book and it was missing a huge chunk. Make sure when you get your order to see all the pages are there.

Rating:

- It's not Shakespeare, and this is not a fine, leatherbound edition... so?
No, this is not great literature. It's often quite silly, and at times morbid as well. The story line seems to drag on forever. Much of the time, one is clearly in the presence of an author working out her neuroses and petty quibbles about the British class system, her education and so on, on paper.

But... who knows precisely why, every kid under the age of 14 who lays hands on these books is mesmerized. My seven year old girl is in a multi-age school, where she rubs shoulders with older kids every day. Once they turned her on to Harry, the jig was up. We now read HP from these paperback editions at bedtime every night of the week. These cheap copies are perfect for young kids, no sweat if they get dogeared and stained and lost, and when she outgrows them, as I'm guessing she will, no tears about giving them to the library, a neighbor, or the recycling bin.

Questionable as this stuff is as literature, I find that listening to the stories and struggling to read these books has enhanced our little one's reading and comprehension abilities enormously. She can rattle off every little detail she's heard. She makes up guessing games to play with us about the most obscure characters. The books are at a reading level far beyond her years, but she is motivated to press ahead trying to read them on her own.

Word to the wise, however. The Harry Potter movies are definitely NOT for young children. There is quite a lot of violence in them. They have enormous visual and sonic impact. I watched a few to see what was there because our girl insisted she had to see them. They were a bit much for me to watch. I'm quite certain she will not be prepared to do so for some time to come.

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