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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Share the magic :), 2 May 2007
This boxed set allows you to buy the first six paperbooks in the Harry Potter series at a very reasonable price. I think buying it is a good idea for:
a- those who want to give their kids/friends (or even themselves) a great gift at a very good price --> due to the fact that you will give 6 books at the price that some bookstores sell just 1.
b- those who are very lazy --> because it is almost certain that if you buy the first book for yourself or your children, you will end up at the same bookstore buying the other books in the series. Buying the first 6 books at the same time will save you time and money, and you will only have to return later to buy book number 7, to be released on July 2007.
c- those who want to read a book that their kids will love, but that they will like to, and turn the fact that they are reading the series into a family experience.
d- those who want to motivate their children to read --> because reading Harry Potter will make them understand that there are books can offer them some things that the television cannot. If your children just hate the idea of reading, show them one of the movies based on the series, and afterwards tell them that the books have a lot to do with them, but that they are way better.
e- those who are learning English, and want to practise it in a entertaining way. And what better way to improve your grammar that reading something that is actually fun?.
f- those who aren't from an English speaking country, already have the books but want to read them in the language Rowlings wrote them --> because the reading experience is totally different (and yes, I know because I read some of the books both in Spanish, Italian and English).
g- those who are curious about the series but haven't given it a try --> because this series really grows on you, and it gets better and better, specially after book number 3.
After telling you about all the reasons why buying this boxset is a good idea, I would like to talk a little more about point g- because that was my case some years ago, even though I wasn't lucky enough to get my hands on a boxed set. First, though, I would like to comment upon the fact that I know some people that haven't liked the first book, and that have given up after a few chapters. I don't know anybody that has given up after reading the first 3 books. Yes, the first 2 books are very simple and short, but they help to set up the parallel world J.K. Rowlings is writing about. The 3rd book already shows a great promise of how the series are going to be like.
In my case, I bought the first 4 books at the same time, a Saturday afternoon. I read the first 2 books ("Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets") rather quickly, and wondered why everybody including my sister loved them so much. They weren't long, and they were rather good, but nothing out of the ordinary. It is only while I was reading the 3rd book ("Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"), that very same night, that I understood what the hype was all about. Even though when I finished it it was high time to go to bed, I couldn't help but starting the 4th book ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"), even though I was tired, and it really was much bigger than the others. It also was much more entertaining, and noticeably more complicated. Understandably (for those who have read these books, at least), I started reading it and couldn't stop until Sunday's afternoon. I was tired, but very happy of having discovered the magic, something I wouldn't have done if I had stopped after reading the first two books...
From that point onwards, I have been a "pottermaniac". I've read all the books in the series, and I thoroughly enjoy them. Yes, I like other kinds of books too, and I'm an adult with a degree in Political Science, but that doesn't mean that I cannot find these books engaging. One of the wonderful things about the Harry Potter series is that very different people can like it, for very diverse reasons. Despite that, all readers share something special, the ability to share the magic. Be one of us, and have fun :)
Belen Alcat
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20 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
You must be mad!, 4 Jun 2007
No matter how good the books, why on earth would anyone buy this box set of 6 when you can wait for the complete set of 7 books in a few months!
The only reason to buy this set is the fantastic price, just over £4 a book, but forget the fact they're in a boxed set!
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16 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Harry Potter is Always Well Received, 23 May 2007
To be able to have all the Harry Potter books in one boxed set is a great advantage. For one thing they are all in the same format (publishers have this habit of "freshening" books up, i.e. changing the front cover and the type font etc. So to have all the books in the same format is a bonus and a wonderful gift for someone.
Some would argue that the Harry Potter books are the best books ever written for older children. There are so many good ones that I reserve judgment on that, but they are certainly up there among the best and have caught the imagination of many children over the last decade.
It is a fact that many children these days have moved away from books as a means of pleasantly passing the time and gone on to computer games, which are good fun, but not when used to the exclusion of everything else. Harry Potter books are the exception to the rule, at least with the children that I know.
J. K. Rowlings books are a form of escapism in themselves, very much like some of the computer games, but they contain so much more as well, with the added benefit of honing not only the reading skills but also the vocabulary of our children. The stories are interesting enough to hold their attention, in fact there are no down sides. If it was a straight choice between a computer game or a good book I know which I would choose for my children.
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