Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon

Author - Melissa Anelli ... [Goo?] [Posters]
J.K. Rowling ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Pocket was reviewed on 11-Oct-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon by Pocket. Well, let me be the first to wish this book had never been written! I can´t believe I bought it. I can´t believe that J. K. Rowling wrote a preface for it (that was the only reason I took a chance on this book) What a waste of money and time. I mean, who cares what phone call came and who left a message and when anyone learned the truth and what the author was thinking when she learned the truth. -- All I cared about was What is the story about Harry? I know the author is considered his greatest fan (probably she isn´t) but really -- boring, ho hum, sigh and zzzzzzz. Who cares what she cares.¤

2) Paperback Book Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon by Pocket. Melissa Anelli gives readers an in-depth look at the ultimate fan experience in Harry A History. She shares facts about the Harry Potter series, her amazing experiences with the fandom and JK Rowling. It was a great read and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in the Harry Potter series.¤

3) Paperback Book Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon by Pocket. Everybody has a story about how they came to read the Harry Potter series. Everybody has a story about how they celebrated the series once they realized how powerful it was. And everybody has a story about how they felt about its eventual end. Each story is unique, in its way - but, they all share the same threads. The more we say them out loud, the more they sound the same...in a good way.

The fans that Harry gained before the release of "Deathly Hallows" knew that they were a part of something huge. And now, those fans who will never have to wait years between release dates - who will never know how much anticipation of a thing can influence the scope and greatness of the thing itself - can read all about it.

Melissa Anelli is the spokesperson for those of us who spent countless hours discussing, theorizing, converting...online, offline, in living rooms or at the bus stop. Even though she was "there" in contexts that many of us never got to be - she does a remarkable job at making the story she tells in "Harry: A History" OUR story: everyone´s story all at once.

"Harry: A History" is the work of both an indispensable participant and an extremely talented narrator. I am impressed by Melissa´s writing, and happy to add this book to its rightful place - on my ´Harry Potter´ shelf at home.¤

4) Paperback Book Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon by Pocket. Melissa, in every way, shape and form, totally and thoroughly captures what it´s been like these past 10 years to be a Harry Potter fan. Harry Potter has been an amazing phenomenon and I could think of no better and more qualified fan than Melissa to write this book.¤

5) Paperback Book Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon by Pocket. I am a listener of PotterCast, the podcast Melissa helps to host, and so I have heard teases of this book for months. But finally, after all that time, it´s here. I pre-ordered it, and it came last Monday night, just in time for my birthday (yay), despite the fact that November 4th is the actual publication date, and finished it tonight after four days of reading.

This book was amazing. I actually put off starting a book for school today to finish reading it! I am a fairly new Harry Potter fan, having only gotten into it in January 2005, so reading this book, I got to learn all about the parts of the fandom I´d missed out on by my late arrival into it. I chuckled when I realized I was very much not alone as a Harry/Hermione shipper, among other things.

As a Harry Potter fan and a Christian, I was particularly moved by the chapter regarding the interview with Laura Mallory and the Christian censorship of the series, since such harsh views from Christians on the series are what kept me away from the books so long in the first place. I was particularly shocked that Mallory had made a statement linking books like Harry Potter to school shootings. While I did not know anyone personally who went to Columbine, that shooting affected my family because my dad grew up in that area. I have also read and seen accounts of the incident. It was horrible. I´m glad Harry Potter helped that one girl who survived Columbine begin a healing process.

All in all, I love this book and would definitely recommend it to anyone who is into Harry Potter or knows someone who is.
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6) Paperback Book Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon by Pocket.

The Harry Potter Books Were Just The Beginning of the Story...

During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary people made history: they became the only ones who would remember what it was like when the Harry Potter saga was still unfinished. What it was like to seek out friends, families, online forums, fan fiction, and podcasts to get a fix between novels. When the potential death of a character was a hotter bet than the World Series. When the unfolding story of a boy wizard changed the way books are read for all time.

And as webmistress of the Leaky Cauldron, one of the most popular Harry Potter sites on the Internet, Melissa Anelli had a front row seat to it all. Whether it was helping Scholastic stop leaks and track down counterfeiters, hosting live PotterCasts at bookstores across the country, touring with the wizard rock band Harry and the Potters, or traveling to Edinburgh to interview J. K. Rowling personally, Melissa was at the center of the Harry Potter tornado, and nothing about her life would ever be the same.

The Harry Potter books are a triumph of the imagination that did far more than break sales records for all time. They restored the world´s sense of wonder and took on a magical life of their own. Now the series has ended, but the story is not over. With remembrances from J. K. Rowling´s editors, agents, publicists, fans, and Rowling herself, Melissa Anelli takes us on a personal journey through every aspect of the Harry Potter phenomenon -- from his very first spell to his lasting impact on the way we live and dream.¤

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