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...through a rabbit-hole or walking through a wardrobe, Harry journeys to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on a secret wizard train leaving from downtown London. Though the setting is modern, the basics of Harry's story ring familiar. Rowling's style and sense of humor resemble Roald Dahl's, and her storyline, full of clever twists and characters who are not quite what they seem to be, is at heart a simple tale of good versus evil...
...attitude towards violence, Rowling has departed from the dark humor of children's writers like Roald Dahl and Shel Silverstein. Like these authors, Rowling imbues humorous situations with a sinister edge--but Rowling's tragedies are vividly and frighteningly real. Her stories provoke serious thought about the dangers of hatred, prejudice and injustice. In turn, the reality and unpredictability of the violent moments in the Harry Potter series help these novels to maintain their powerful suspense...
...fact, a famous wizard and has won a place at the prestigious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And with that, the reader and Harry together are plopped down into a world every bit as fantabulous and vividly original as those created by C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl or, for that matter, George Lucas...
Virtually any place a family might go in New York has literary associations. Young readers will recall that the long spire of the Empire State Building, for example, was the last stop for Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach. Other readers will enjoy deconstructing the great skyscraper, a la David Macaulay's Unbuilding, which tells of the landmark's fictional dismantling by Saudi Prince Ali Smith for transport to the Arabian desert and reassembly as the headquarters of his petroleum empire...
Matt Damon is already being typecast--as a genius, no less. In Rounders, he just sits there, like a poker game that has its ending broadcast in the first hand. Rounders offers convincing evidence that the actors involved should carefully adjust the directions of their careers. John Dahl should return to the genre which made him famous--the sexually charged neo-noir thriller that he basically reinvented. Matt Damon should go for range and dive into a weird character--maybe even a villain. (Sacre bleu!) Gretchen Mol should have a heart-to-heart with Meryl Streep. John Malkovich should just...