Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Book 3

Great! Such a fun way to read the book with the beautifully done artwork on the cover and side, and the stenciled edges. A good pick for adults and kids.

100% recommendedThe best everLove all the sagaPotterhead foreverAll the books are the bestWon’t disappoint… never

The best of all the Harry Potter books. Loved Sirius. Favorite character. 3rd installment and the best of all the books.Loved all the new characters and loved the others even more.

Can never go wrong with anything Harry Potter! Looks great on my shelf adding to our book collection.

Worth every penny! Hugh Laurie as Dumbledore is the best addition and most of the other cast members are great to listen too. Deducted a star because Madame Pomfrey's voice alongside Snape's and Sirius Black's is an absolute throw off. I had to tune out. I know living up to the expectations of the original actors for the latter two is an impossible task, but it seems that the casting director hadn't even tried to cast good matches. very disappointing...

Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book in the original group of Harry Potter novels, thus it is set in the student's third year at Hogwarts. The book introduces several new characters, including the new defense against the dark arts professor, Professor Lupin, the titular prisoner of Azkaban (which is the wizard prison), Sirius Black, who is out to find Harry, and the Dementors, the guards at Azkaban who are trying to track down Black but also have a huge effect on Harry any time they come near him.This book is significantly longer than the first two, and as such, it has more content cut out for the movie adaptation than the first two books did. For example, the book has two additional Qiddich matches that were not shown in the movie, and there was more to the Buckbeak storyline than was shown in the movie. Also, some events played out differently in the book than they did in the movie, such as when Hermione decks Draco, Harry facing the Boggart for the first time, the circumstances of Harry getting his new broom, and the climax of the book when all is revealed has a lot more detail than was shown in the movie. And, some characters that were introduced in this book did not show up on film until the Goblet of Fire movie.Overall, the book is very well written, and done in a similar (yet a bit darker) tone than the first two. As most know, Rowling anticipated that kids reading the books would age as they were released so she made them darker and more "adult-like" as each book was released. So, there is a lot more talk of death in this one and we learn more details of the night that Harry's parents died than in the first two books. While it is technically a book for kids, in the 10-13-year-old range, adults can easily enjoy it. Even people like me who were older than the target reader group when the books were originally published. I had seen almost all the movies before I ever read the books for the first time and I think I enjoy the books more having already seen the movies. Even though the book is longer than the first two (435 pages), it is still a fairly quick read, depending, of course, how fast you read and how much time you have to read. If you are a fan of the movies or the first two books, it is definitely a must-read.

This book is one of the best in the whole series. Always fun to reread and remember details about Lupin, Sirius, and Snape.

Once I became accustomed to ALL what these “Full Cast Editions” entailed, above and beyond more than just each and every character being individually voiced, the original score, the sound effects, the “Spatial Audio”, etc., I have become a lifelong, fully committed convert.Other than my initial complaints from the first two books, the inauthenticity of Draco Malfoy’s “constant, overwrought, overdone and overused snicker” and Neville Longbottom’s “whining whimper” that suffers from the aforementioned, now we’ve got certain moments of “OVERACTING” and done in some cases by well known, well respected, oft-awarded, professionally trained 🇬🇧 actors.Some of these I neglected to mention in “Chamber of Secrets” (I.e., Vernon Dursley, narrated by the normally, understated Jeremy Swift), but they increased in frequency (not to to the point of harming my love for these), especially since “The Prisoner of Azkaban” is SO much longer, but because these are SO wonderfully done, it makes me wonder if the actors, vocal coaches, directors and editors didn’t do SOMETHING about it.Again, these are amazing‼️. But when the films, no matter how fantastical and intense scenes became, the performances were ALWAYS so believable and so authentic.As before, I’m quite confident that I will ALWAYS be listening to one of these in rotation throughout the remainder of my 65 year old’s life…

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Good book

もっと読書をしたいと思わせてくれる、素晴らしい本です。物語も会話の構成も素晴らしく、想像力を豊かに刺激してくれます。子供からティーンエイジャー、そして私のような大人まで、誰にとっても素晴らしい本です。

I love these books 👌 it was an excellent edition

Libro di buon materiale.Ottima rilegatura e la copertina di alta qualità. Ben fatto, regalo gradito