this is a really good book. I have always wanted to read this series because I have heard really good things about it but I never had the time but I really like it now that I am reading the series. I wish I would have read the books before I watched the movies. but I did; so now when I am reading the book I have a good idea of what will happen next it not is the end of the world though because I can compare the book to the movie and I see all of the things that they left out of the movie. the way jk Rowling writes is amazing I feel like Harry Potter is really when I read the book I feel like I am in his world she really uses some good imagery and other techniques to make the book one of the best I have read in a long time. there are a few things I would like to change through one of them would be I would make harry potter more powerful like where he has some hidden power that makes him way stronger than anyone else and that he would end up taking Dumbledore place. and he was the one that ended up getting Dumbledore wand and he used it to kill Voldemort. but other than that the book would be perfect and I would be able to read the whole series in a month. what I think would be really cool if jk rolling made wrote the book again but everything would be modern the in the future with high tech weapons and metal wands and stuff. I would read that book all day and then I would read it again . so I learned that I don't like to read but I do like to read when I read this book it really takes me back to when I was a little child and I used to read all the time and my favorite book was Eragon but I think I like this one better. because it is more intense and eragon is more boring at certain parts it drags on but in harry potter and the sorcerers stone they get right to the point and you get more action on every page it's honestly pretty cool. but I have learned a lot about my self-reading this book like how i only read books I like.