Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (2001)

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As Harry Potter begins his third year as a student at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, he is disturbed to discover that Sirius Black, a wizard who may have been involved with the death of his parents, has escaped from Azkaban Prison. Black left behind two clues, both of which indicate that he is headed for Hogwarts--and Harry. As a result, the school is being watched over by the Dementors, a terrifying sect of black-cloaked guards from the Azkaban Prison--whose very presence at Hogwarts has a potentially life-threatening effect on Harry. Meanwhile, he gets acquainted with Professor Lupin, Hogwarts's new teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts, but Harry also wonders about his new teacher's secretive relationship with Professor Snape. This is the third entry in the wildly popular Harry Potter series of books, and a film version directed by Alfonso Cuaron was made in 2004.

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Anyone who enjoyed the first two Harry Potter books should also like Prisoner of Azkaban. It has an excellent plot with lots of fascinating new creatures and characters. The pacing is very good--fast moving but never confusing. Like most of the Harry Potter books, nothing is really as it seems and the ending twists in a completely unexpected way. There's lots of humor too.

The only thing I didn't like (which annoys me in all the Harry Potter books save the first) is that the descriptions of characters are repeated and events from the first two books summarized again when they come up. There are many continuing plot and character threads from the first two books, and the Harry Potter series is clearly intended to be read in order from beginning to end, so I really don't feel this repetition is necessary (it's easy to skip over, though). Speaking of the fact it's a series, don't buy this book if you haven't read the first two.

The book is in great shape, I recieved it very quickly, had great communication. Answered all my questions. I am very satisfied with my purchase.

Great book for people of ALL ages. Great detail and imagination! I bought the book because I liked the movies and I am pleased that I did!

I bought it because I borrowed the book from a friend and enjoyed it, thought I would probably want to read it again, and found it here for $0.75. It came quickly through the mail and was exactly as described.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
GREAT BOOK AWSOME WOULD READ MORE THAN ONE TIME

i resived the book on time and loved it. it was pirfict gerat shape.
i bought it for my mom so she would not keep taking mine she loves it

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I was going to buy this as an xmas present however after attempting to buy I was told they no longer had the item. Although I was disappointed I was impressed by how quickly they notified me.

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My son really enjoyed reading the book. I intend on ordering more books from this source. It was also sent in a timely manner.

The Harry Potter book series is a great read, regardless of the reader's age. I highly recommend this amazing book as well as the other 6 Harry Potter books. Extremely highly recommended.

I actually had this book already and bought it for my mom. She is loving the series and is starting on book 7. AWESOME!

I love the Harry Potter series and that's why I bought it. I already own the first two and will slowly be buying the remaining four.

I would have to say that this book was a pivotal book not only in Harry Potter's life, but in JK Rowling's writing career as well.

For Harry, his past begins to reveal itself and danger comes ever closer to his reluctant sanctuary (ie-the Dursley's residence). For Rowling, her stories are no longer stand alone mysteries that share a common location, but are part of a larger story.

These changes are perfectly timed, as the 8th grade is a pivotal time. It is at this age that children are in between true childhood but not quite yet a young adult. We see changes in Harry, Hermione and Ron that indicate the change.

For one, Draco becomes less of an enemy and more like a pest-problems that they used to have no longer seem to matter, or at least not as much. The spells that Harry and his friends learn are likewise indicative of their maturity. Harry is learns to cast a protective patronus years ahead of his peers, which shows that he has matured beyond his peers. Harry takes his last, irrevocable step into adulthood when he choses to spare the life of his parent's betrayer so he can stand trial.

On the surface, Rowling does not "sanitize" the book as much as she did with the other two, a trend that continues with the rest of the series. Some people say that Prisoner was the last "children's" book and that Goblet of Fire begins her "young adult" books. While I agree with that assessment, I also think that JK was having her books grow up as her children did. We not only see character development in our heros, but in the writing style as well.

But her level of writing maturity does not end there. Each of the first two books had a beginning, middle and end. Each book was self contained. You could read Chamber of Secrets before Sorcerer's Stone and not miss much. Not so anymore. If you read any of the other books out of order, you could follow the plot but all the richness of her literary devices will not make sense to you.

I think what truely sets JK Rowling as a master story teller is that this book does not suffer from the "middle book funk". Too many book writers and movie produces use this excuse to cover their own laziness (sadly, too many people accept this excuse and keep wasting hard earned money on trash).

JK is able to produce a good book by following the same success formula that Marvel and DC comics did-have complete endings for the sub-plots so the readers feel satisfied. Rowling gives us plenty of satisfaction: the innocent escape death, the betrayer's cover is blown, Harry earns the respect of the people needs to rely on in later books and preparations are being made, at least by some, for the storm that they now know will come.

The greatest weakness I found was her assigning value and meaning to items from the first two books. When they were first written, these items were only described so much as to provide ambience. By retro-actively assigning significance to them, she created a feeling of artificialality that comes with forcing a plot device. This was corrected in later books and a much smoother flow will take place.

In short, Prisoner of Azkaban is a wonderfully writen transition book that takes Harry from being a child into adulthood and takes JK Rowling from being a great entertainer into a master storyteller.

John Holland-author of Necklace of Terrersylvanous

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I bought this book because it was the only one in the series that I did not have. I love this book as with the other books. Even though I've read them all before whenever I reread them I'm amazed that I can't put it down. I Would recomend this book or other books by J.K. Rowling to anyone. Because everyone seems to love them.

The third in the Harry Potter series rocked as awesomely as the first two did! Had to buy it! And do should you! The characters are aging wonderfully and believably! The Wizarding World grows ever more interesting with more characters than ever! Oh, the movies are NOTHING compared to teh books and you get SOOOOOOOOOO much more details, history, bonus material in the books than the movies! It helped me to understand a lot of the happenings in the movies! Even if you have watched the movies... read the books!
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We loved to read this book because of the way it was written. This author has such a good imagination and a way of putting words on paper that just come to life! We look foreward to the next book in this series.

I bought this book as a Christmas gift. Our Church sponsore many families at Christmas and this was the book that was requested.

The book was in wonderful condition. The delivery was a little delayed but it may have been because of Christmas. I was delighted to have this treasure and would order again from this user.