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This post written by Clint The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon
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Christopher is 15 years old, and he tells us he has “Behavioral Problems.” He carries a knife with a saw-blade that (he thinks) would be good for cutting off somebody’s fingers. He wouldn’t mind if everyone else in the world just vanished one day. He likes math. However, he’s not a serial killer or anything even remotely like that.
Christopher’s brain works in a different way. He has trouble understanding feelings or interpreting facial expressions. He pays attention to everything, so crowds or some kinds of noises or lots of signs or even looking out the window while he’s on a train overwhelm him. He really hates being touched. That’s part of why he doesn’t like people.
The story is told entirely from Christopher’s point of view. It begins when he discovers that his neighbor’s dog, Wellington, has been murdered. Since Christopher loves Sherlock Holmes, and since he really liked Wellington, he decides to investigate the murder and bring the killer to justice. The murder is solved about half way through the book, but it leaves Christopher in the middle of an even bigger problem, and he spends the rest of the story dealing with it.
People seem to either love or hate this book. I think one reason some people hate it is the writing style, which I can kind of understand. Since Christopher is telling the story, he tells it his way. However, this didn’t bother me. I actually thought it was pretty easy to read. However, I’ve noticed that a lot of people feel cheated because they thought it was a very different kind off book than it really is. Let me try to clear up some of the most common myths I’ve seen about this book.
Myth 1: This is a murder mystery. Well, that’s what Christopher says, but he’s wrong. This is a novel about Christopher, his life, and his family. In fact, Christopher spends every other chapter writing about his daily life, his hopes and dreams, and his hobbies. He is very fond of mathematics and physics, and he talks about math a lot.
Myth 2: This book is for kids. Actually, the author got tired of writing books for kids, so he wrote this one for adults. His agent decided that it would be good for kids, too, so one edition was published for adults and one edition was published for children. Just so you know, there’s a lot of swearing in it, and bodily functions appear more than a few times.*
Myth 3: This is an accurate, scientific portrayal of autism. It isn’t. In fact, the author never says that Christopher is on the autism spectrum. He never claims that Christopher has Asperger syndrome. The author used to work with people who had autism, and he says he basically combined various traits of people he knew to create Christopher. He didn’t go out and do any research. You might want to check out this interesting article about the book written by a man with Asperger syndrome.
If you want to give the book a try, you can read an excerpt of it at the publisher’s website or Google Books.
*: One way to get a book marked as “Literature” is to kill an animal, talk about bodily functions, and make the main characters people you wouldn’t want to hang out with all the time. Having the main character talk about academic topics also helps.
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This post written by Clint Varney the Vampyre, or, The Feast of Blood
by James Malcolm Rymer (or possibly Thomas Preskett Prest)
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What do you do if you have read all the popular vampire books and still want more? You might want to check these lists from Reading Rants or The Monster Librarian. However, if you consider yourself a fairly good reader, you don’t mind old-fashioned writing (like from the 1800s), and you want to learn more about the history of vampire literature, you might want to give an old-school vampire story a try.
Varney the Vampyre was written in the 1840s, about 50 years before Dracula. It tells the story of Sir Francis Varney, a vampire who isn’t all bad. Yeah, every so often he will sneak into a young woman’s room and drink some of her blood, but he doesn’t enjoy it. Okay, well, maybe he does, but not a lot. In fact, he often feels sorry for his victims, and he tries to help them out somehow. On the other hand, Varney is kind of unpredictable, and does kill a few people because they have stuff he wants.
Varney the Vampyre is such a long and strange book that it’s kind of hard to summarize. It starts out like a classic vampire tale, where the vampire breaks into a woman’s room in the middle of the night and sucks her blood. This poor woman is Flora Bannerworth, a member of the English aristocracy. The Bannerworth family owns a lovely mansion and has a few servants, but they are about out of money and are occasionally worried about having to sell Bannerworth Hall and move somewhere cheaper. We’ve got a fancy, old building, a helpless woman, and a blood-sucking fiend. Sounds like Dracula, but it’s not. Not even close.
The writing in the first chapter is just awful, and I was really not looking forward to reading all 800 pages. It got a little bit better in the second chapter, but I was still a little worried about finishing it. Fortunately, things improved a lot in Chapter 4, where the novel first shows a sense of humor. Flora’s brother Henry has figured out that they are being haunted by a vampire, but he wants to keep the whole thing a secret. On his way in to town, every single person he meets says something like, “Hello there, Mr. Bannerworth. How’s the vampyre?” Everybody.
Then, a few chapters later, the vampire is after Flora again. This time, though, she whips out a pistol and shoots him! We never find out how Flora learned to shoot, but she is pretty good with a gun. Unfortunately, Flora is never quite this cool again, and most of the other women in the story are either helpless victims, second-class citizens, or dishonest schemers, but that’s not uncommon for this time period.
Then we meet Admiral Bell and his servant/friend/shipmate/nemesis Jack Pringle. They both spew stereotypical sailor nonsense (like “shiver my timbers” or “you may give the devil a clear berth, and get into heaven’s straits, with a flowing sheet, provided you don’t, towards the end of the voyage, make any lubberly blunders”) and swear about as much as anyone can in this kind of story. Jack and the Admiral are always fighting with each other and always making up, and somehow they manage to be genuinely funny.
At some point, the Bannerworths realize that Varney isn’t really interested in sucking blood. He wants their house, for some reason. Quite a few things happen after that, and, while I don’t want to spoil anything, Varney ends up spending a few days as Flora’s house guest. Yeah, this is different.
About the first 50 chapters (out of 237) deal with Varney and the Bannerworth family. Basically, that’s a whole regular vampire novel. Then Varney vanishes, and the action moves about 25 miles away. We get another 25 chapters of a story that sort of involves vampires, and sort of involves the Bannerworth family, but we don’t see Varney much until near the end. Then the action moves to London, and again, we don’t see Varney or any of the other “regular” characters until the very end. After that, we get a bunch of short stories about Varney that almost always end with something bad happening to him.
Varney the Vampyre has its flaws. For a start, the writing is really uneven. It bounces from good to bad to so-bad-it’s-good. There are also a lot of subplots that never get resolved and a lot of details that get forgotten. What ever happened with that Quaker who was living on the Dearbrook estate? Why was Marmaduke Bannerworth’s coffin empty? For that matter, wasn’t Marmaduke originally named Runnagate in Chapter 2? Why did George Bannerworth just disappear from the novel? Well, the author was writing it pretty quickly, and apparently he was also busy writing nine other stories at the same time! Fortunately, this got better as I read more of the book. I don’t think the writing got better. I think I just got used to it.
Another problem is that the author was paid by the word, so he often tries to use a whole paragraph when a single sentence would do. Even worse, though, is that sometimes the characters will sit down and tell each other little stories that have nothing at all to do with the novel. Actually, that’s not the worst part. The worst part is when Varney himself decides to read a story because he has an hour to wait and nothing to do, and we have to read exactly what Varney reads.
I mentioned before that the story has a sense of humor. However, since it was written in the middle of the 19th century, there are some things that the author thought were funny that are actually kind of racist, or are otherwise not okay anymore. Fortunately, there aren’t very many of these.
However, the story has its good points, too. Some of the writing is really good: Varney has some really excellent lines when he’s messing with people, for example, and every so often there is a really nice description of a place or an event. There is some good humor, too. Varney can be snarky when he wants to, and the author does a good job of showing the little ways in which ordinary people suck. Admiral Bell and Jack Pringle are just hilarious, too. Also, at one point, one of the characters sits down and reads a really awful vampire novel.
The author does a really fantastic job with some of the characters. It took me about five lines to get a good picture of Mr. Marchdale, for example, and the more I read, the more right that image seemed. I was also really impressed by Admiral Bell and Jack Pringle. While they are the zany comic relief, they are also real people, and we eventually get to see their serious sides. I think they are my favorite characters.
How can I sum up this book? It’s not great writing. It’s not even great that great a vampire story. When pretentious professors of literature say that popular books are bad because those authors write for money rather than for Art, this is what they are thinking about. Still, I actually enjoyed most of the book, and it’s an interesting piece of vampire literary history. I can’t recommend it to everyone, but if you really want to learn more about early vampire fiction and aren’t scared off by the thought of 237 chapters, give it a try.
So how does Varney compare with the Hollywood vampire stereotype?
- Drinking Blood [checkmark] Although Varney doesn’t always bite the neck. Sometimes he goes for the arm.
- Has Fangs [checkmark] Actually, Varney may be the first vampire in literature to have fangs.
- Vampires Spread by Biting [checkmark] Apparently you can also become a vampire if you are a really bad person.
- Amazingly Strong [checkmark] Varney may be the first vampire in literature to have amazing strength.
- Unkillable [xmark] Varney actually gets killed a lot. I think he is shot to death five or six times, at least. He also gets stabbed by a sword once and drowned twice. However, moonlight brings him back.
- Weak Against Wooden Stakes [xmark] Well, they will work, but they aren’t any better than a sword or a gun. However, at several points, drunken mobs try to stake people they think are vampires, and one vampire is actually killed by a stake through the heart.
- Weak Against Sunlight [xmark] Varney doesn’t really enjoy sleep, since he has nightmares, so he is often out at night, but he’s also up during the day. It’s easier to scam people during the day, usually.
- Must be Invited In [xmark] Varney is polite, but he doesn’t actually need your permission to enter your house.
- Weak Against Flowing Water [xmark]
- Weak Against Holy Symbols [xmark] Actually, Varney hangs out with a priest for a while, and he breaks into a church.
- Weak Against Garlic [xmark]
- Get Confused at Crossroads [xmark] However, one drunken mob does try to bury a vampire they’ve staked at a crossroads. Varney helps out, and he seems just fine.
- No Reflection in Mirrors [xmark] Varney specifically mentions seeing himself in a mirror. Of course, he might be lying.
- No Heartbeat/Breath/Blood/Temperature/Other Signs of Life [xmark] Varney has all the signs of life, except that he won’t stay dead and he doesn’t need to eat or drink (except blood).
- Pale, Corpse-like Appearance [checkmark] This might be because Varney was dead for two years before he came back as a vampire. Or he might be lying.
- Doesn’t Age [checkmark] We don’t know how old Varney is, but the story covers at least 30 or 40 years, and he never seems to get older.
- Changes Shape [xmark] The best Varney can do is put on a disguise. He does that a lot.
- Flight [xmark] Varney can jump pretty high, but that’s probably because he has supernatural strength.
- Wall Crawling [xmark]
- Hypnotic Powers [checkmark] As long as Varney can stare at his victim, she can’t move or scream. Of course, he has trouble doing this and actually biting her at the same time. Varney may be the first vampire in literature to have this power.
- Sleeps in a Coffin [xmark] Varney likes his beds to be aired out and clean.
- Wealthy [xmark] [checkmark] Sometimes Varney has lots of money, and sometimes he doesn’t. Usually he does, though.
How about some of the more modern trends?
- Sophisticated and Elegant [checkmark] Varney has a sense of style and he likes the finer things in life. He can really put on the charm when he needs, too.
- Angsty [checkmark] You don’t see it at first, but Varney really isn’t happy as a vampire. He’d rather be dead for real. He doesn’t spend a whole lot of time whining about it, though.
- Dark and Brooding [xmark]
- Really Just Misunderstood [xmark] [checkmark] Varney is somewhat misunderstood, he really does need somebody to talk to, and he occasionally goes out of his way to do good things for people, but he’s not a good person. Still, Varney may be the first somewhat-sympathetic vampire in literature.
- A Sucker for Love [xmark] Varney’s not going to fall in love with the first person who tries to stake him. He never falls in love with anyone in the story, although he does respect Flora and a few other people. He also wants to get married, although we’re not sure why. It’s clearly not for love, though.
- Looks Young and Sexy [xmark] Varney is late middle-aged, pale, and ugly.
- Fluid Sexuality [xmark] Varney is never sexually attracted to anyone in the story.
You can read some commentary on this blog. At five chapters a month, the blog should get through all 237 chapters in just under four years.
You can also check out a new graphic adaptation. Unfortunately, at their current pace of one chapter in two months, they will be done some time in 2050.
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You can read the whole thing online thanks to the University of Virginia’s Electronic Text Center. There are a few typos in this edition, but then, there were some pretty serious typos in the original printing.
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This post written by Clint Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Terry Pratchett (UK website here) and Neil Gaiman
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Do you like stories about the apocalypse, complete with evil nuns, prophecies, angels, demons, and the Antichrist? Well, either way, you might like Good Omens. It’s a spoof of these kinds of stories – sort of like End of Days, except deliberately funny. And with no Arnold Schwarzenegger. It’s also like Dogma, but without Chris Rock or Jason Mewes.
The End Times are near, but there’s a little problem. There was a little accident at the hospital when the Antichrist was born, and he was accidentally switched with a normal baby. Eventually, the forces of good and evil figure out that the guy they think is the Antichrist is just some kid, while somewhere out there the real Antichrist is living a normal life. Several different groups are out to find him. Unfortunately, figuring out which ordinary eleven-year-old boy is actually the Spawn of Satan and Prince of Lies is kind of difficult. In fact, the only person who had any clue about all this died 300 years ago. Her name was Agnes Nutter, and before she died, she wrote down her prophecies in a book called The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. Agnes didn’t really understand the 20th century, though, so she had a lot of trouble explaining what she saw. As a result, her prophecies are almost useless – you’ll only understand one after it’s too late.
The cast of characters includes Elvis, evil nuns, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (who now ride motorcycles), the elite Witch-Finder Army (two people), a demonic Hell-hound, an unlikely team of the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley (who happen to be good friends), and quite a few other strange and amusing people.
If you take Christianity so seriously that you can’t laugh at it, you’ll probably hate this book. Also, if you don’t like sly humor, you’ll probably dislike this book. Otherwise, give it a try. How often is the end of the world a laughing matter?
To get the most from Good Omens, you need to be pretty familiar with the history of Christianity. The book is still very funny even if you know next to nothing about religion, but if you want to get every little joke and reference, there are a couple of sites that you might want to check out. One is http://goodomenslexicon.org, and another is http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/good-omens.html.
You can read a chapter online at the publisher’s website. There are funnier parts to the book, though. Also, for some strange reason, the people at HarperCollins couldn’t be bothered to proofread the excerpt. Basically, the book is way better than this excerpt would lead you to believe.
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This post written by Clint Algernon Blackwood has been called the master of the English ghost story. He is often listed in the horror section, although he didn’t write what you probably consider horror. Blackwood’s stories are about the supernatural – ghosts, magic, and other strange creatures. Sometimes bad things happen, but some times they don’t. His stories aren’t terrifying in the blood and gore and monsters everywhere sense, but they are usually eerie or strange. He was a master of atmosphere and buildup,
Blackwood wrote a lot of short stories, and his themes ranged from reincarnation to romance to encounters with strange, unexplained creatures. However, almost every one of his stories has some weird element to it.
He also created John Silence, one of the earliest supernatural investigators.
Algernon Blackwood isn’t that famous among people who read modern horror, but he had a strong influence on H. P. Lovecraft and probably many modern horror writers, too.
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You can read a lot of his books and stories online at the Penn State Online Books page.
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This post written by Clint Watership Down
by Richard Adams
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Watership Down is a fantasy story about people leaving their old home, traveling across the country to start a new one, and defending it from the forces of evil. What makes this book unusual is that most of the characters in it are rabbits.
Fiver is a young rabbit who has visions of the future. One day he has a horrible vision of his warren (the rabbit version of a city) being destroyed, but the leaders of the warren will not listen to him. Fiver and his brother Hazel, along with a few other rabbits, leave the warren in search of a safe place that Fiver also saw in his vision. They are joined by two warrior rabbits, Bigwig and Silver. This group faces many dangers as they travel across the English countryside, like stray dogs, rabbit snares, and highways. Eventually they make it to Watership Down, the place Fiver recognizes from his vision, and start a new warren.
Now that they have a chance to relax, the rabbits notice that there aren’t any female rabbits. With the help of Kehaar the seagull, they manage to find another warren in the area that might be willing to share some of its people. Unfortunately, this new warren turns out to be a police state run by a crazy killer bunny who calls himself General Woundwort, but Hazel and the others manage to free a few of the rabbits from Woundwort. General Woundwort won’t allow anyone to leave, so he and some of his soldiers attack Watership Down. The Watership Down rabbits aren’t really warriors, but they are smart, experienced, and desperate.
Watership Down is more than just an adventure story. When the rabbits stop for the evening, they tell each other stories from bunny history, myth, and legend. Along the way you learn a little bit of the bunny language, too. Richard Adams did a really good job of making rabbit culture interesting.
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This post written by Clint A Morbid Taste for Bones
by Ellis Peters
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This is the first in a series of books about Brother Cadfael, an unusual monk who solves mysteries in the twelfth century. Cadfael is Welsh, but he lives in an abbey in Shrewsbury, England. That’s not why he is unusual, though. Cadfael wasn’t born a monk. When he was younger, he took part in the First Crusade. He has seen a lot more of the world than most monks (or most other people in the twelfth century), he knows a lot of unusual things, and he has a knack for noticing little details. He also tends to ignore any rules that get in the way, and he has a very different take on religion and morality than most of his fellow monks.
In A Morbid Taste for Bones, a monk named Columbanus collapses and appears unable to recover his senses. Another monk, Brother Jerome, has a vision: Saint Winifred will cure Brother Columbanus if they take him to where Winifred was killed. This is awfully convenient, since the abbot has been thinking about getting a saint for the abbey. When Saint Winifred actually cures Columbanus, the abbot takes it as a sign from God that Saint Winifred’s remains should be moved from her grave in Wales to the abbey.
A group of monks, including Jerome, Columbanus, and our hero Cadfael, make their way to Wales to pick up Saint Winifred’s remains. This idea isn’t too popular with the local people, who are rather fond of their saint. There is a fierce debate, and before everyone can come to a conclusion, a very important person is murdered. This is about 900 years too early for forensic science, but Cadfael has a few tricks up his sleeve.
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This post written by Clint His Majesty’s Dragon
by Naomi Novik
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Did you enjoy the movie Master and Commander? This book is a lot like that, but with dragons.
His Majesty’s Dragon is set in the early part of the 19th century, during the Napoleonic Wars.* Will Laurence is a captain in the British Royal Navy who captures a dragon’s egg from a French ship. When the egg hatched, the baby dragon attached itself to Laurence. He names the dragon Temeraire, after the famous ship. As far as Laurence is concerned, Temeraire has just ruined his life.
Why? Wouldn’t it be awesome to have your own dragon? Well, not exactly. The dragon becomes property of the British Empire, and since it seems to really like Laurence, he is forced to give up command of his ship and serve in the Aerial Corps. That means living out in the middle of nowhere, where the dragons have the space they need and won’t cause trouble. That probably means never getting married, since the Aerial Corps is no place for a gentleman. As far as Laurence’s wealthy family and friends are concerned, commanding a ship is fine. Commanding a dragon is so undignified.
Temeraire, as it turns out, is an unusual dragon. He isn’t one of the kinds of dragons you find in Europe. Instead, he seems to be some special breed from China. He is smarter than many other dragons – he enjoys being read to, and he questions the way dragons are treated in the military.
Laurence stands out just like Temeraire does in the Aerial Corps. As a former Royal Navy captain, he is very fond of rules and regulations and politeness. Nobody else in the Corps really cares about that stuff. They are misfits, isolated from regular society. Of course, one of the most shocking things Laurence finds is that the Corps allows women to be soldiers.
Laurence also stands out because, despite his obsession with making lower-ranking soldiers salute and call him “sir,” he takes way better care of his dragon than anyone else. Most people in the Corps like their dragons, but they treat them more like pets and horses than people. Laurence is very different – he treats Temeraire like a person, and he thinks all dragons should be treated that way.
A lot of the story is about Laurence loosening up, learning to fit in as much as honor will allow, and dealing with his family, who are not happy about his new position. We also get to see a lot about the daily life of dragons, and we get to watch Temeraire grow up. As you might guess from a book about dragons in the military, there is also some good dragon-to-dragon and dragon-to-ship combat.
If you like Master and Commander and you also enjoy fantasy, this should be the perfect book for you. Unlike Master and Commander, there aren’t many nautical terms in the book, so you don’t need to worry about what a bosun’s chair is or anything like that.
If you want to read the first chapter or so online, it’s on the author’s official website.
* This is also when the Master and Commander series takes place. It’s also when the Horatio Hornblower and the Bolitho series take place. Why? Because Will Laurence and Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower and Richard Bolitho and probably a dozen more fictional captains are all based on the same person, Thomas Cochrane. If you enjoy these kinds of books, you should really read about Cochrane.
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This post written by Clint The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
by Chris Wooding
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Alaizabel Cray isn’t exactly haunted. Ghosts don’t follow her around and cause trouble. She’s more possessed. Sometimes. Plus, monsters are drawn to her.
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray is set in London during the Victorian period, although they never say what year. The Victorian period feels right because houses and streets are still lit by gas lamps and horse-pulled carriages are still the main form of transportation. However, history doesn’t exactly match up. In this world, the United Kingdom lost a war with the Prussians and, not too long after that, monsters called wytch-kin started taking over part of London.
Two of our main characters, Thaniel and Cathaline, are professional wytch-hunters who run around London at night and do their best to kill wytch-kin. While hunting a Cradlejack, a wytch-kin that abducts babies, Thaniel stumbles across a dirty, crazy woman who doesn’t seem to mind hanging out near the Cradlejack. Feeling sorry for her, Thaniel takes her home and, much to his surprise, nurses her back to sanity. Not too long after that, Thaniel and Cathaline discover that they are all in the middle of a supernatural plot that threatens to destroy the entire world.
One thing I have always wanted to see in a book is a villain who says something like, “Yeah, I’m evil, but I don’t want to destroy the world. I live there!” We get one of those in this story. However, despite the fact that he sounded like he was off to save the world, I found his actual role kind of disappointing.
Some people put this book under horror. I don’t think that’s quite right. It’s more along the lines of supernatural investigation. It has monsters and a serial killer, and there a couple of slightly gruesome scenes, but nothing that bad.
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This post written by Clarissa Emma
by Kaoru Mori
Emma is a generally well-researched, charming story about the life of a maid in Victorian England. She’s different from other maids because she knows how to read (and she likes to). Naturally, there is cross-class romance–she falls in love with a wealthy young man!–and lots of details about the daily life of of the period. It’s surprisingly funny in parts, too. We first saw advertisements for this during our honeymoon in Japan, and I never thought it would be released in the US, but now it has been. Despite the frilly dresses and the theme of romance, when this series was published in Japan, it ran in a magazine aimed at men. (Japan is really different sometimes.)
This is not related to the Jane Austen novel Emma.
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This post written by Clint Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
by J. K. Rowling
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You may think this book is for kids, but it’s smart enough that adults can enjoy it, too. If you somehow haven’t heard about these books, Harry Potter is an orphan living a very boring, miserable life with his aunt and uncle. He enters a world of magic when he is invited to Hogwarts, a school for wizards. For the first time in his life, Harry starts making friends and goes from being a nobody to being a celebrity. Unfortunately, something evil is going on at Hogwarts, and it is up to Harry and his friends to stop it.
You can look it up on Wikipedia.
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