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Scholastic Press released the book to U.S. audiences in September 1998 under the title “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer??s Stone,” and three months later it made its first of 79 appearances on The New York Times fiction bestseller list. In 2000, The New York Times created a special bestseller list for children’s books after publishers complained that the Harry Potter series kept other, deserving adult books off the list...
Freshmen may have expected a “PG-rated” show at last night’s pre-housing lottery screening of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer??s Stone” in Sanders Theatre.But they got a peek into the more risque side of House Life when a group of Currier House residents ran shirtless in front of the screen—spelling out “Currier” on their stomachs and propping broomsticks between their legs. The screening was the first part of “Get Housed?...
Much of the Class of 2008 was only 12 when J.K. Rowling’s first novel, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer??s Stone,” was published in the U.S., the beginning of a seven-book sensation that has made Rowling richer than the Queen of England and turned thousands of readers, like Gong, into Potter fanatics...
When the first installment, The Sorcerer??s Stone was translated to film, it was decidedly not aimed at magic folk. Director Chris Columbus was charged with the onerous responsibility of introducing Rowling’s magical world and weaving in a plot involving the return of the evil Lord Volemort. In cramming in both necessary elements, the film felt like an animated stick figure, a conglomeration of bare bones allusions to the novel’s major dramatic moments that did not satisfactorily flesh out details. The production design, while otherwise superb, nearly crumbled under the weight...
...Sorcerer??s Stone wasn’t satisfactory as an introduction to the Potter world, then the second installment, The Chamber of Secrets is much more accessible and certainly less hurried (after all, it does clock in at a child-resistant two hours and forty minutes). It is also steadily plotted, driven by brilliant action sequences—including a breathtakingly visceral Quidditch match—and many moments of real tenderness. The story finds Harry nearing the end of his summer holidays following his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and living with...