Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Why read this one… First off my daughter has been foisting these upon me for many months and secondly Stephen King endorsed them – well that did it for me as I know how much he likes an author to stick to the story. Having read and thoroughly enjoyed the first book – Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone – I was eager to get my hands on this one. Short synopsis… It is time to return to Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry and for Harry this cannot come soon enough – he has stayed with his aunt and uncle again and it is never a pleasant experience ... more

Just another sequel? For me, sequels often seem like duller, watered-down shadows of the original classic, meant for harvesting the last remnants of commercial success from a book or film where the end should have been 'Happy ever after'. However there are some exceptions, for example 'Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' which at least equalled or surpassed 'The Fellowship of the Ring' in its originality, emotion and battle sequences. However, I can't help feeling that the 'Chamber of Secrets' falls into the first category, despite the fact that the magic of the Philosopher's Stone is hard to ... more

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second book in the series that has been wrote by the great author JK Rowling. It follows on from the first book that she wrote and leads on nicely to the next book in the series. The Harry Potter books have been out in the world for quite some time now although the sixth book in the series has only been out for about a year now, but I am sure that most people in the world know the books staring Harry Potter and written by JKR. The book is so good and popular that they have also made the books into films that have been shown at the cinemas and are ... more

Well, I loved the film and quite enjoyed the first book, but the second one – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – was the first time I had read a book in this series without knowing what was going to happen! So, did it pass the test? Or was it just an over-hyped children’s’ book? I’ll tell you what I thought of it in a minute – but the one problem I was having as a thirty-two year old reading a kids’ book was that I did worry it didn’t look right. I mean, when I read a book, it goes all over the place with me and I’ll read it in a ... more

Okay, the day's protest churning is over and normal service is once more resumed - a point is made or not, but dave27's back to his normal self... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J K Rowling is quite simply one of the most glorious story tellers of the last five years or so, and those who feared she had shot her bolt with the first, excellent Harry Potter tale, HP and the Philosopher's Stone (HP1 to keep things short), needn't have worried, for her follow up story, 1998's HP and the Chamber of Secrets (HP2, of course), if anything, outdoes the original and develops the myth of the boy wizard in a tale ... more