Well, we've read all three (my wife, me, my 8-year old)  I'm rather
embarrassed to admit that I stayed up until midnight to finish the third one
simply because it was the only time I could read it without fighting over
who's turn it was with the  rest of the family.

They are quite well done.  Its rather astounding how they work over such a
wide age spectrum. My kid can't wait for Halloween....he's already bought an
old broom and painted it to look like a FireBolt.

George Kramer
Ashland, Oregon


----- Original Message -----
From: Marilyn Harper <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 4:57 AM
Subject: Harry Potter and the . . .


>      Ilene wrote:
>
>      "Any of you-all read any of the new Harry Potter books?  I might feel
>      silly buying them for myself, but I am curious."
>
>      I read the first one last Christmas three times (feeling like an
>      idiot, of course).  Harry is a cool kid--very 11-year-old, in spite
of
>      the sorcerer stuff, some of the details are really neat, like the
>      every flavor jelly beans (he really means EVERY flavor), his truly
>      icky non-sorcerer relatives.  And I'm a sucker for those "plucky
young
>      hero defends the world against the forces of evil" books anyhow (the
>      brain obviously still thinks it's ten, although the rest of the body
>      is all too clear that that is not the case).
>
>      Haven't read either of the other two--only in hard back with waiting
>      lists a mile long.  Would gladly do so if one drifted by.
>
>      Marilyn
>