Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: How much better can it get?Comment: I am constantly amazed by the depth and strength of J.K.Rowlings writing. Even in the first book of the series `Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone`, when the writing was simpler and more geared to Harry`s then age-group, there were complexities visible to older readers. As the characters have aged so has the style and content changed and, as Rowling herself says, become darker. No longer does every book end on a more or less happy note. The violence, torture and death of an adult world are beginning to impinge on Hogwarts and to increasingly affect Harry and his friends. On an emotional level too the characters are changing although there is always the typical J.K.Rowling wit and humour! She has the gift of a quality writer for creating a vivid picture with the perfect choice of just one or two words. Obviously she`s not infallible but any mistakes she makes tend to relate to small oversights in the plot or background which in the context of the whole really don`t seem to matter.Customer Rating: Summary: Harry potter 5 - on audio tapeComment: i thought this was prehaps not the best harry potter book but still just as equally engrosing!Some nights before i go to bed i can't face reading the book (i hear you ghasp!) so i just stick one of my tapes on. They are very entertaining and sometimes so relaxing they send me
The price may seem slightly hefty but no worries i swear they are well worth it, in my opinion any ways.
Stephen fry who reads the Cover to Cover series is borne to read harry potter, and the enthusiasm he puts into his text is stimulating and keeps your attention throughout.
I hope you enjoy listening to this book just as much as you enjoyed reading it.
sweet listening. xxx
Customer Rating: Summary: Lets hope JK gets back on form for book 6Comment: This book introduces many new characters and deals with Harry going through adolescence. The main problem with the book is that it doesnt contain enough for your seven or eight hundred pages - in fact it it positvely crammed with detail you just dont need. Listening to the tapes read by Stephen Fry I am at Chapter Seven and so far I feel that Chapters One and Two should be one chapter of 1/2 the length, chapter 5 is mostly redundant and chapter six while it contains lots of relevant information on family trees is twice as long as necessary, as so on.
