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Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7)
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Now for the first time ever, J.K. Rowling’s seven bestselling Harry Potter books are available in a stunning paperback boxed set! The Harry Potter series has been hailed as “one for the ages” by Stephen King and “a spellbinding saga’ by USA Today. And most recently, The New York Times called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the “fastest selling book in history.” This is the ultimate Harry Potter collection for Harry Potter fans of all ages!
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Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7)
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Original price was: $100.00.$45.44Current price is: $45.44.
Evelyne Morin Bêty –
Es una edición de colección y el arte corre a cargo de un artista japonés.
Llego completo y sin problemas. Ha tengo varios años con este set y se ve hermoso en mi librero.
Obvio no es pasta dura y por el precio no se puede esperar que las hojas sean de calidad. Sin embargo esto no afecta nada en la imprenta ni el diseño en general.
Está bien editado, no encontré errores ortográficos ni falta de hojas o frases en ninguno de los libros.
Es una gran opción de compra
Elizabeth G. –
good product and delivery
Vincent Vine –
– Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
I had to research a few Briticisms throughout this book, but they didn’t seriously interrupt the story flow. What did interrupt were the numerous comma splices. They forced me to re-read many sentences. Having said that, I enjoyed the plot and character development. I never felt bored.
If Amazon had half stars, I’d give Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 4 1/2. Since that isn’t possible, I’ll award it a 4.
– Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Mystery, humor—and a smidgeon of possible romance?
The plusses: Rowling steers Harry Potter through a mystery with a surprise outcome, sprinkling the tale with tidbits of humor. When I reached the end, I wanted to keep reading and find out how Harry spent his summer with his horrible relatives.
Minuses: Numerous comma splices drew me out of the story, forcing me to re-read sentences.
A solid 4.5 out of 5 stars. I’d award an extra .5 stars if it weren’t for the comma splices.
– Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Twists, turns, and surprises.
I enjoyed this most of the first three books in the Harry Potter series. Rowling steers readers through suspenseful mini mysteries throughout the novel. Astute readers might be able to spot clues that will help them see what happens next. Hint: Pay attention to every detail. The old characters make appearances, as well as a few new ones, including an unexpected friend for Harry.
As usual, I enjoyed the ending and can’t wait to read the next in the series.
Rowling’s comma splices occur far less frequently in this book, which increased my reading enjoyment immensely. I can’t resist—five stars.
– Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The best yet, with intrigue, laughs, and tears.
This book reads like a spy novel. I couldn’t decipher the good guys and the bad guys, and just when I decided someone was one or the other, I discovered I was wrong. Rowling finally reveals how to pronounce “Hermione” (Her-my-oh-nee) due to a clever conversation where Hermione teaches Krum how to say her name properly.
Near the end, one of the characters explains how and why many past events occurred. I found it a tad like an infodump. Run-on sentences occur far less in Goblet than in Prisoner, and mostly in dialogue, which assists comprehension.
Now, I wonder how Harry’s summer with the Dursleys will go. His summers always intrigue and amuse me.
Note to parents: One of the chapters (thirty-two, I believe) contains violent scenes that wouldn’t be suitable for young children.
Another five-star read.
– Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
With every novel in the Harry Potter series, I find myself becoming more engaged and wanting to read “just one more chapter” before closing my Kindle.
In Phoenix, Harry’s character develops as he grows into a typical angst-ridden teenager—with more reason for angst than most of his peers. Rowling increases the romance factor and introduces a character so vile that I disliked her from her first appearance in the novel. A couple of secrets are revealed, including the reason why Harry must spend summers with the Dursleys, and an intriguing clue surfaces that, I suspect, will play an important part in Half-Blood Prince.
Rowling provides enough backstory so that first-time Potter readers will understand the story, and the run-on sentences become fewer with each novel.
Five stars.
– Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
My optimism about a clue that was revealed in Order of the Phoenix didn’t prove correct. *sigh*
In Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore’s Pensieve acts as a marvelous link to backstory that doesn’t seem like backstory. More information about Voldemort appears via Harry’s regular meetings with Dumbledore. We are kept guessing throughout most of the novel, and perhaps will be wrong, about Snape’s true intentions.
Although Rowling doesn’t kill people off with the alacrity of George R. R. Martin, she does dispense with another beloved character. The funeral chapter is well-written, evincing tears and a chuckle or two.
I wonder whether Harry will carry through with his plans. Is he really who he, and everyone else, thinks he is, or …?
Now I can’t wait to tackle Deathly Hallows.
Five stars.
– Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I withdraw my comment about Rowling’s propensity for killing off characters. However, their demises were necessary in Deathly Hallows; otherwise, the story wouldn’t ring true. Rowling’s masterful manipulation of emotions had me smiling, nay, laughing, in some areas—and tearing up in others.
Without providing any spoilers, I wondered throughout why the photo of a key headmaster didn’t give Harry any advice. Plot hole? In previous novels as well as this one, misleading clues were dropped. Some were essential; others frustrated me because they didn’t amount to anything.
Note to first-time readers: Pay careful attention to clues. You might be able to predict a few twists if you do.
Five stars.
– General Comments
Ms. Rowling’s style did change somewhat as the novels progressed. Annoying run-on sentences appeared less with each novel.
Now I’m suffering Potter withdrawal. Will we ever see stories about the children of key wizards and witches? No, not screenplays written by others, but novels written by the author herself. I would read them!
Five stars for this reading experience, Ms. Rowling, and good luck with future writing endeavors.
Cinthya Aguilar –
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Demorei a achar um box em inglês e com custo benefício bom. Esse box superou minhas expectativas!!
Vincent Vine –
I’ve been a fan of Harry Potter since about the grade school, back when the only books that had been published yet were the first three, when Potter’s popularity was still on the rise, when Christian fundamentalists were still catching on to the horrifying idea that a “witchcraft” story was gaining popularity with children, and grade-school teachers were similarly catching on to Harry Potter being a pretty effective tool for getting kids to develop a liking for books. Indeed, that was how I discovered them: my English teacher somewhere in the 6th-to-8th-grade portion of schooling (where my Catholic school shifted to a high-school-like classroom and teacher shuffle to prepare students for the routines public school would involve) introduced me and several other students who were showing less interest and enthusiasm in the class to the Harry Potter novels, actually lending us her own copies of the first three books to get us reading. By the time the much thicker fourth volume, Goblet of Fire, came out, I was so in love in the series that its intimidating size was far more appealing to me than intimidating, like a larger bowl of rocky road ice cream might look appealing.
In the decade-and-a-half since, I’ve never let go of my love of Harry Potter, even if I have gone long stretches of time without keeping an active eye on the franchise. The recent revival of widespread Potter interest of the appealing-but-flawed sequel stage play (“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”) and an arguably-more-interesting-and consistently-engrossing prequel-sidestory-movie (“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”) has prompted me to revisit the book series yet again, as well as replace my old worn-down hardcover copies with both the paperback box set and the eBook downloads from Pottermore’s e-shop — which are cross-compatible with Kindle accounts and can be transferred over as identical files to the Kindle versions, by the way, even though Amazon doesn’t count those files as purchases of the Kindle eBooks, but rather as separate account-exclusive items. Having checked on Audible, this series does not seem to be compatible with Whispersync for Voice no matter where you buy the eBooks as of yet, so audiobook fans who like to read the text while listening may wish to take note of that when deciding whether to buy a physical or eBook versions (this is possibly due to revisions having been made to the text for series consistency in the time since the audiobooks were recorded).
In-depth reviews of the individual books are perhaps best saved for each book’s individual page on Amazon, so I will give only a broad-stroke review of the stories here — if you are considering buying the series as a complete box set, it’s likely you’ve already read and enjoyed at least the one of the books. But for the uninitiated, Harry Potter is a series that follows a boy, Harry himself, across a seven-year series of adventures culminating in the return and subsequent war against Lord Voldemort, a terrible Dark wizard who wreaked horrors upon the magical and non-magical communities alike until his unexpected and inexplicable destruction when he killed Harry’s parents and then attempted to kill Harry while he was still an infant. Harry, growing up with his non-magical (“Muggle”) aunt and uncle, who cruelly neglect and emotionally abuse him, receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry when he turns eleven, whereupon he discovers that not only is there a burgeoning community of witches and wizards living and hiding in plain sight in a seemingly-ordinary 1990s British society, but that he is famous among the magical community. They call him the “Boy Who Lived,” the cause of Voldemort’s disappearance and the end of his reign of terror. But as Harry enters the magical world and begins to learn about this new side of his life and the wonders of magic, he gets drawn into a series of perilous events that lead him closer and closer to his eventual destiny with each passing book, gradually revealing more of the truth behind what happened on the night Harry’s parents were murdered and what led to it, among other things.
Harry Potter is a fantastic series. One might be tempted to think it’s overblown or over-rated by its enthusiasts. One would, in fact, be forgiven for taking that impression almost exclusively from the movies; they’re enjoyable enough in their own right, but suffer problems of less-than-amazing adaptation and fluctuations in creative vision that make the film series feel somewhat disjointed and less-thoughtful than the books they’re based on, and have the added problem of the younger actors and actresses often taking a few films to develop the skills to portray their characters naturally (an occupational hazard of a fantasy epic that relies on child actors, really). The Harry Potter novels, meanwhile, provide an arguably smoother introduction and, subsequently, a more fleshed-out experience in Harry’s world, with the earlier, shorter books providing a comfortable and more “episodic” early portion that’s great for allowing readers to get their feet wet, becoming gradually more involved and complex until the build-up culminates with the fourth and fifth novels, where the story goes all-in on characterization and worldbuilding detail, presuming the writer to be fully invested by that point, and keeping that level of maturity and intensity right up to the ending of the final volume.
It would be remiss of me to call this series perfect, don’t mistake the five-star rating for that. J.K. Rowling certainly has her weaknesses as a writer, and it could be accurately said that the novels suffer from a bit of a bloating problem that surfaced around Book Five, where Rowling clearly had more power to say “no” to her editors (incidentally, this is also the point at which the American text just gives up at hiding away a lot of the Britishisms in narration and dialogue, and I will say the books are at least better for that much). This is a clear Your Mileage May Vary kind of point. I personally enjoy the tangential worldbuilding that comes out of it, and consider it worth whatever “bloat” occurs as a result. But then, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is my favorite of the seven novels, and even for some avowed fans of Harry Potter, that book was too long and spent a little too much time on certain things. There’s really no way to tell whether that will be a problem for you until you get there and either like it or don’t like it. But what problems the Potter novels have are, in the grand scheme, just niggles. It all comes together in a really great way and in spite of the flaws, it’s a really great series of books worthy of the classification of “epic.”
But one thing that might surprise people unfamiliar with Potter is that this is not a fantasy action-adventure series. It’s more of a mystery series coated in a gooey chocolate fantasy syrup. Harry Potter himself tends to fill the role of a combination Frodo Baggins figure and up-and-coming detective character, and the most important plot points are, regardless of who figures out or explains a given part of things, presented as mysteries. Action sequences occur and can be quite intense, particularly in later volumes, but this is not the story of a big, super-cool hero slaying dragons; it’s a story of circumstance, figuring out the circumstance, and then reacting to the circumstance. Some readers seem annoyed by the fact that eleven-year-old Harry never matures in this series to a point where by the end of magical high school he’s capable of going head-to-head in a duel with a Dark Lord with decades of extensive magical knowledge under his belt, but that is simply not the angle that this series goes for. My comparison of Harry to Frodo Baggins was not an idle-name-drop. Harry’s role in this story is very deliberately that of the hero who stands strong against adversity but ultimately triumphs through low-key action behind the scenes of a conflict in which number other, more powerful or more experienced combatants command the bulk of the Dark Lord’s attention. And, like Frodo (and his progenitor, Bilbo), sometimes Harry is helped by sheer circumstance, the timely and skillful intervention of one of his friends, or a combination of his own efforts plus those things. The series does give us a fairly clear picture of what an action-centric lead character in this universe might look like, and I think that’s where a fair portion of reader disappointment with Harry’s more subdued take on heroics comes from, but he is an eleven-year-old who eventually becomes a seventeen-year-old over the course of the story, contending with a villain who has fifty-plus-year lead on experience over him. I think I would have raised an eyebrow had Harry ever bested Voldemort in a straight-up magical fight.
As with everything, this series is something you should read for yourself if you’re unsure. There’s probably a copy available at your local library if you don’t live in a particularly strict area with a stick up its rear about fantasy novels with magic in them. I recommend giving them a shot, and if Book One doesn’t jive with you at first, sticking with it at least until the end of Book Two. This is a series that improves as it moves forward, each book adding new layers to the existing world by pacing its narrative in the same way a child might learn more and more about the real world as he or she grows into an adult, which is a large part of Harry Potter’s effectiveness as a coming-of-age story. The reader, in a figurative sense, grows with Harry, as many of the original readers grew with Harry alongside the release of each subsequent book. This is as much a narrative tool as a consequence of readers aging as they read the books, because with very rare exceptions scattered through the series, the narrative is locked firmly into whatever it is that Harry Potter himself is seeing, hearing, saying, feeling, or thinking, and the reader’s understanding of events and the world around him is often limited to what he knows or notices at any given time.
As for the separate editions of these books. I can’t voice for the “Complete Collection” eBook specifically, since I bought the eBooks individually on Pottermore, but assuming the formatting for the Complete Collection is identical, then the digital set relevant to this review is well-put-together and smoothly formatted, just about the best way you’ll ever experience Harry Potter digitally without buying the iBooks-and-iOS-exclusive Enhanced Edition eBooks available on Pottermore, which feature animated illustrations and the like. If you have an iPad or iPhone, that is the edition I recommend for digital consumption, but for standard Kindle and Android users, or people who like reading eBooks on PC, this collection and its individual-eBook versions aren’t inferior to physical books in any sense other than not having a special font for chapter headings; the U.S. editions of the eBooks even contain the iconic chapter title illustrations, although not the original American cover art (the minimalist cover art of the eBooks makes for a smoother transition between colored screens and black-and-white e-readers, though).
The hardcover collection is one that I can’t vouch for as a set, but having owned and read through the series in hardcover in the past, what I can vouch for is that the American hardcover editions are very nice to own. The box set for Hardcover may lack the text revision of the eBooks and more recent paperback printings, however, and while the chapter artwork and font for titles is something I prefer over the U.K. editions, it should be acknowledged that the American hardcovers are of a slightly cheaper construction than the U.K. editions, although also, paradoxically, they have a higher page count due to Scholastic’s formatting choices (there are fewer words per page compared to the U.K. versions, and Order of the Phoenix has the formatting oddity of being the only book in the series with narrower margins and line-spacing, due to its much higher word count). Having researched this set, it should be acknowledged that the “trunk” is made of cardboard, so don’t expect, you know, an extremely durable box or anything. It’s just a stylized container for a box set.
As for the paperback box set, the purchase that prompted this review? It’s fantastic. The American version with the characters riding a dragon, specifically: I’m seeing a lot of user pictures in this review second for completely different sets, and it seems there’s a motley assortment of mixed sets in the marketplace listings, too. The box itself is quite sturdy and adorned with beautiful artwork by the cover illustrator, Mary GrandPré, depicting a scene from later in the series that puts me in the mind of the old R.A. Salvatore “Cleric Quintet” omnibus cover art (which features a similar scene by what I assume is coincidence). The paperback volumes themselves are of a nice quality that makes them both more durable and less stiff-feeling than some smaller, cheaper mass-market paperbacks, and they even feature raised lettering for the front cover titling, although the paper and print quality are noticeably lesser than the hardcover editions, feeling at a casual touch like the pages would be easier to damage both by bending and by splashing a few drops of a drink in the book’s general direction, not up to the quality of some of the better-made paperback novels that I own. Even so, these are paperbacks that should be taken care of and kept for posterity rather than tossed about like a cheapy grocery store throwaway novel that you picked up on a whim during a food-shopping trip, though the thickness of books four through seven may make it difficult to avoid bending the spines.
Having checked certain passages in the books, I can also confirm that the paperback boxed set, bought new, should contained the revised editions of the text, as well, for as minor as those changes are to the overall experience (again, they’re really just consistency tweaks).
Cinthya Aguilar –
I wanted to read the Harry Potter books and it was excellent! Also each book cover has a beautiful design representation the story
Honest Reviewer –
When the books came into mail, it was in clean and perfect condition. The story of Harry Potter is very interesting and is easy to get attached to the story. The type of writing and grammar is easy to comprehend and i definitely suggest it to younger children who is trying to get into reading. The storyline won’t get you bored and will always make you curious for what’s going to happen next!
Nidgia –
Millennials therapy and the feeling of home will always stay with me and hopefully generations to come. Love it. Always.
ASHLEY –
I got the set for my son, he has been wanting them but buying them separately adds up to a lot and the sets go from 100-300 dollars depending on the edition which is also out of my budget I was able to get this set at a 55% discount with taxes and all it was less than 50. It’s standard size, well made, the box it comes in is well designed and sturdy, very much happy with the purchase.