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Thursday, September 12, 2002
BOOK REVIEW: HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS * * (2 stars out of 4).
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This second book in the series is a tired retread of the first, and contains some pretty big holes in its reasoning. The main flaw, I think, is this. The whole book is about how someone is trying to kill the children in the school who are not pureblooded children of a witch and a wizard. This is, of course, a heavy-handed metaphor for racism. But early on, when we see that Draco Malfoy is exactly as evil as his father, we are told, without irony, that they must both have the same "bad blood". And maybe it's not fair to criticize a children's book for being too predictable. But I swear I'm not giving away one moment of suspense by telling you that everything works out okay in the end. Incidentally, had I been writing reviews at the time, I would have given both the first book and the first movie 2 and a half stars, and I thought the book was a little better than the movie. But for book two, my advice is to wait for the movie.
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