katikat | Harry Potter

I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". I saw the movie first and it bored me to tears, but the book itself isn't bad at all. I still don't get what's all the hype about but it's cute and interesting and I love Hogwarts and Albus Dumbledore, it's a nice setting. Also, I like that Harry, Ron and Hermione aren't, for once, gorgeous/beautiful/hot. They are just normal kids that can, by chance, do magic.

Though I don't get why this book had to be renamed from "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" to "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in the US. From my standing point, it's a bit... ridiculous. I know that it's probably because the stone itself is called something else in the UK and the US but when someone doesn't know that, it can cause confusion...

And now, I picked up "Skin Game" by Max Allan Collins, a Dark Angel tie-in novel.