Harry Putter and the Chamber of Cheesecakes [Kindle Edition]

Timothy R. O'Donnell (Author)

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"You're not funny. I don't know why you bother." -- -my wife.

Product Description

"The Chamber of Cheesecakes has been opened. Dieters Beware!" reads the sinister warning in this hysterical parody of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series. In this farce all of your favorite Harry Potter characters, places, and past events have been twisted around with devilish wit. You'll follow the adventures of Harry Putter, Ron Cheesley, and Hermione Stranger in their sixth year at school, seventh if you count preschool. While some of the encounters are spoofs reminiscent of the original tales, others are new, keeping the storyline fresh and unpredictable. If you like the original Harry Potter series, you'll love this crazy parody.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 522 KB
• Publisher: TOSH Publishing, LLC (April 23, 2004)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001NPD3CS
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,360 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #6 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Humor > Parodies
  • #32 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Children's Fiction > Literature > Classics

More About the Author

They say if you put an infinite number of monkeys at keyboards, eventually one would type out the complete works of Shakespeare. Can you imagine that one monkey that almost got it right? He unfortunately screwed up on one famous quote, "What's in a name? That which we call a banana by any other name would smell as sweet." Bad Bongo! Bad!

What can I say? I'm just another bad monkey at a keyboard.

This monkey was born in Wurzburg, Germany in 1966. Since 1968 I have lived in New Jersey at the Jersey Shore. I graduated from Ocean Township High School (OTHS). I graduated from Kean College in 1985 with a BA in Liberal Arts - Visual Communications.

I am blessed with a wife and three children. By day, I am an Information Assurance Analyst. That's a fancy way to say I earn my bananas by analyzing the security posture of computer systems.

My hobbies are target archery, making cameo jewelry, and creative writing.

I am also the author of the epic Erthelba series of science fiction/fantasy novels (four books: Iibrahiim, Polydora, Hgia Lucii, and Athandoros). The first book, Iibrahiim, introduces a post-apocalyptic earth of adapting life forms, some of which can use 'magic,' including man, who has evolved into five races. Iibrahiim explores rich and fascinating new cultures, philosophies, and religions, while telling the tale of one of its heroes, Quaagthook. Meanwhile, the over arching storyline examines the nature of reality and perception, and man's obligation to himself - to discover his life's purpose, and to fulfill the reason for his existence, if possible.

I am also the author of, Harry Putter and the Chamber of Cheesecakes, and Harry Putter and the Deathly Hairballs two hysterical parodies of the J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. If you like Harry Potter books as much as my family does, you'll love these crazy spoofs!

Harry Putter and the Chamber of Cheesecakes was originally written as a fun learning experience for the enjoyment of myself and my two sons. The three of us are all big Harry Potter fans. We are the architects for the storyline. (However, I'm the one to blame for turning the storyline into a book.) We had such a fun time with our little project that we thought we would share it with others. We know you'll have as much fun reading it as we did coming up with it.

Thanks for visiting, and don't forget to tell all the Harry Potter fans in your life about it!

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is not the Harry you've read about!, April 11, 2007

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Nick Cifonie "Znick" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harry Putter and the Chamber of Cheesecakes (Paperback)

We bought this a while ago and we loved it. Knowing the original "Potter" stories made it even better. My two older daughters thought it was hilarious, and my youngest just started reading it as well. We only wish the series was longer!

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Great But Has Some Very Funny Parts, May 9, 2009

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Martha Shaw "M GloryBelle" (Los Alamos, NM, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harry Putter and the Chamber of Cheesecakes (Kindle Edition)

I'd give Harry Putter and the Chamber of Cheesecakes 2.5 stars if possible. I enjoyed most of the book. There are both hilariously funny sections and abysmally stupid parts.

Although this was probably meant to be a spoof of the Harry Potter books in general, it isn't a great one. That's partly because the author tried to do too much in one short volume, and partly because it was not well-edited and organized. Bits and pieces from several Harry Potter books were thrown in here and there to fill out the story and its characters, but the final result left some inconsistencies and occasional unfinished trains of thought or action.

I thought the book was titled and mostly written to spoof "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." That's only the vague framework of the story, however, as the time setting was just before and during the (offically) Sixth year at the school. Often the author goes off on tangents to fill in information from the past, usually in Harry's daydreams. The result was a rather disjointed story, but still fun with some bright spots of humor.

The funny parts include name alterations, odd and unexpectedly silly incantations, and what I'd call "opposite-talk" character and plot changes. Some of the funny parts had me laughing aloud. Others were just tolerable.

If you're a serious Harry Potter fan but wary of plot and character changes, either read with a grain of salt or don't read it. If you love Harry Potter books, enjoy fun silliness, and don't mind stupid jokes, you're likely to enjoy the book, or at least most of it.

Oh, one more thing---my Kindle e-book version had errors in the text. Occasionally some pieces of sentence were scrambled from one paragraph to another. Maybe it's just the change from the printed version to the electronic version that caused this?

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Harry Potter, December 10, 2011

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John Skins - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harry Putter and the Chamber of Cheesecakes (Kindle Edition)

If you are over the age of 10 and actually like the Harry Potter series, you will absolutely despise this book. It is a giant piece of crap that tries far too hard to be funny, and does a horrible job at it. It also reads like a 5th grade essay, just brutal, save your money.