Recommendations on -Guides to HP- books?

[psychic_serpent <psychic_serpent@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Ebony <selah_1977 at y...>" 
<selah_1977 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "slomudskipper 
> <slomudskipper at h...>" <slomudskipper at h...> wrote:
> 
> May I add one to your list?
> 
> Try "The Science of Harry Potter" by Roger Highfield, science 
editor 
> for the Daily Telegraph and the author of a very popular book on 
the 
> science of Christmas.
> 
> Both Roger Highfield and another author you mention, John Granger, 
> will be featured guests at our first-ever fandom symposium, Nimbus-
> 2003:
> 
> http://www.hp2003.org
> 
> --Ebony

I can second Ebony's recommendation of Highfield's book.  However, I 
found that I had to read "The Sorcerer's Companion" with my teeth 
gritted due to some errors (misspelling Nicolas Flamel's name and 
then trying to do Arithmancy with the letters therein, among other 
things).  And I recommend staying away from unauthorized biographies 
of JKR; one I skimmed through in a bookstore was so riddled with 
errors I felt like reaming out the management for deigning to sell 
the dreck.  It was truly only worthy of being pulped as soon as 
possible, and yet someone is making money from it.  Save yourself 
the trouble of reading "The Sorcerer's Companion" and research the 
same material on the web.  Then read Highfield's book and wait for 
JKR herself to write her autobiography.  

In the meantime, if you like the Lemony Snicket books, I can highly 
recommend the "Unauthorized Autobiography of Lemony Snicket" which 
even comes with a book jacket you can turn inside out to disguise 
what book you're reading.  Great fun; I dare anyone to go half a 
page without snickering...

--Barb


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