Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Book 3

Harry goes back to Hogwarts for his third year. Sirius Black, the supposed heir of Voldemort, has escaped Azkaban and the school thinks that he is after Harry. This is another great story with lots of suspense and cool monsters and magic. Loved it!

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…

Outstanding! So well done and engaging to listen to. Pricey is the downside.

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.

Lost book 3 in my book set & bought this to replace it. It doesn’t match the box set unfortunately but fits in there!

I’m slowly building my Harry Potter collection, and Prisoner of Azkaban is definitely one of my favorites so far. This edition is absolutely beautiful — I love how each book has its own colored page ends, and this one looks amazing on the shelf. I’m on book four now, and the series just keeps getting better, but Azkaban really stands out. The story is so good, the pacing is great, and it’s one of those books you can read over and over without getting bored. Between the quality of the book itself and the story inside, it’s an easy 5 stars.

Great book for kids

Good read

Good book for children, excellent story

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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