Welcome to Harry Potter Week! My daughter became a huge fan of the Wizarding World this year so I’ve spent the past several months revisiting the books and watching the movies (some for the first time). I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the books and movies over the course of seven days.
Author: J.K. Rowling
Title: Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone
Narrator: Jim Dale
Publication Info: 1999 Listening Library
Summary/Review:
My wife read all the Harry Potter books to my daughter, so I had Jim Dale read them all to me (and what a charming reader he is). I am impressed at how much of the full story is established in the first book. I mean Sirius Black is mentioned on the first page, for starters. But the basics details of Hogwarts and the Wizarding World are all very well established in this book. This novel is also a good stand-alone story (IIRC, so are the 2nd and 3rd books, while 4 through 7 are more of an ongoing story). It’s hard to remember what I thought when I first read this book around 15 years ago, but I have to say it holds up well.
Rating: ***
Panorama of the Mountains 