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Title: Surprisingly unoriginal and rather boring I'm shocked to say
Review: I started to read Harry Potter with great enthusiasm having heard (as we all have) great things about it. It was a surprise to me that this first book is actually rather badly written, quite boring and surprisingly derivative. It wouldn't take a fantasy fan long to come up with a list of the sources of most of the ideas in the book. How anyone can call it original is beyond me. Maybe I've just read too much of the much superior source stuff (like Roald Dahl and Terry Pratchett). However I can understand its appeal as its blends Enid Blyton and Adrian Mole into the cauldron of fantasy ficton and therein lies its only shred of originality. However I've been told the books get better so I'm reserving final judgement until I complete them all...
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