Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

This is a good book, just might be the best Young Adult fantasy book ever. But I just can't like the YA genre enough to give this a higher rating.

The movie is a carbon copy of the book, so there was not much in the way of wondering what was going to happen. Even though the plot is simple, very few author are able to execute this very well. Like the little tips a long the way that tells who the real villain is.

There was one thing though that really bothered me, that I attribute to the lower end of the YA (for children really). The final scoring of points for the schools. I felt it was really unnecessary to give the victory to Gryffindor. It just felt like another blow for someone who like a more gritty style.

Still this was a pleasant reading. The writing was very easy to understand, all the scenes made sense and had a natural flow to them. Well, made sense for a YA book, where you have to justify the fact that a child by no merit of his (as in Ender) is able to defeat ALONE the greatest evil the world has ever faced.