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Summary: Building a future
Review: In her latest work, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, author JK Rowling brings back all the old favorites for the fifth year at Hogwarts. Harry returns to school to face darker and more dangerous problems than in the previous installments. There are a number of differences between this novel and her other Harry books:1) Violence - if a reader were to compare this novel with the Sorcerer's Stone, the difference would be apparent. The level of violence is not without proper cause - the story dictates the need for it, yet it is something that youngsters should be ready for.
2) Puberty - The fifth years are definitely noticing each other.
3) Length - This is certainly the longest volume yet. This could cause some younger readers to wait until they are able to tackle the book in its entirety.
4) Story - The story is closer to what the fourth book was like versus the first three books. In the first three books, the stories were more self contained than books four and five. In book five the author is clearly setting up the ending of the series in book seven. So when the last page has been turned in the Order of the Phoenix expect some unresolved situations. Fans of the series will enjoy and devour this book and eagerly await book six sometime in the future.
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Summary: The Best.
Review: This was definitley the baest book yet. Of couse, it was dark and evil at times, but that was part of what made it so good. I won't give away anything here, but a main character dies and Harry begins studying a new subject. Longtime fans rejoice! Your three year summer is over at last. P.S. It isn't the Dursleys who die.
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Summary: Worth the Wait,
Review: After three years of anticipation, I'm not sure that any book could have pleased anyone. OoP moves the central plot forward, and develops some of the characters much more, while still giving a few tantalizing glimpses of the wizarding world. I had one complaint - Harry spends a great deal of the book whining and acting generally younger than he did in the previous books. Far from a young man, made an adult before his time, he doesn't even act like a conventional 15-16 year old. For those that have been following the series, this probably won't make a difference, but the series' success is built on the likability of Harry, the boy who didn't choose his fate. The book's ending is darker than the previous books - a trend that has continued, which probably won't disappoint those that have been following the series from the beginning. However, parents of young children may not want to buy them the entire series just yet - remember, those that were young when they read book one are now young adults, and have grown up with the books. Those that seem like the right age for book one now may not be able to understand some of the events of the book.
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Summary: Not bad...
Review: Not bad, I read it with my son, and we both found it to be a good read. I thought about giving the ending away, but he talked me out of it... ;)
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Summary: Wonderful......but very sad.
Review: I would give this 5 stars because I love the series and I think that this book continues to develope the characters and story that so captivated me in the first 4, my only reservation is the horrible sadness I felt the whole time I was reading. The Chamber of Secrets was harder for me to read than any of the others before this one because Harry was so distrusted by the other students. This book is about a million times worse in that Harry suffers distrust from his fellow students as well as severe punishments from the Ministry of Magic and finally a personal loss in the end of the book. As a very sympathetic hero and also a child it is very hard to read about him having such a horrible time. I can understand why J.K. Rowling wrote this book the way she did and I think it's a very well written book. It will no doubt be a very important part of the series. I also have faith in her that by the end of the series I won't feel as sad about it as I do right now. However right now facing who knows how long before I can read the next part of Harry's story all I can say is that it was a wonderful book........just very sad.
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Summary: The Best/Worst Book in the Series
Review: Knowing what a slow reader I am, I took off work to read "The Order of the Phoenix" on my pre-set strick schedule which involved 2 hour naps and 20 minute dinner breaks. Thanks to the momentum of this amazing tale, however, my schedule went by the wayside before Saturday was over, and I finished the book in half the time I had planned for (and slept there after). This was the best book of the series. After 3 long years, we finally get to see 15 year old Harry (with a 15 year olds hormones) deal with the return of Voldemort to full power, disappointment and frustration when his friends are given more responsibilities than him, and the guilt and anxiety of his responsibility to his real family, Sirius Black and the Weasleys. It is the worst book in the series for the emotionally unstable, like myself. The death of a major player in this book, and the very dark themes of the dark magic and the temptations of power are devastating. The death, in particular, is a hard blow for those of us who have trouble keeping in mind that these characters are fictional and that it is indeed, just a book. I had to put it down several times and remind myself of that during particularly anxious or morose sections. There is nothing that Rowling could do to this book to make it bad. After 4 books, Harry and his friends do feel like family, and it's not really a question of how good anymore, but how intense (and how long will we have to wait for the next installment). However, this book really was an exceptional story. Rowling has really captured the mind of a 15 year old boy with his insecurities, frustrations, and hormones. Harry is more real than ever before and his judgement is more human. He makes mistakes that are terribly costly and even though he learns his lessons, life doesn't just go back to being a beautiful magical wonderland. He has to live with his mistakes from now on. Those around him are more human too. Even Dumbledore is shown to have faults that are very human and help lead to the disasters that are faced in this story, and no doubt in the future. A future that we wait with bated breathe to read.
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Summary: Harry Potter V
Review: Harry Potter V delivers yet again. After quite a long wait, J.K. Rowling provides us with more adventure and suspense, as well as more development for the characters we love. Although some major questions are, at last, answered, many more tantalizing clues to the mysteries surrounding Harry and his past are given also. J.K. Rowling handles Harry's developing romantic life with finesse, and faces some of the more difficult emotions that adolescents often feel. This book is a fun reading experience for adults and children alike, despite its length.
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Summary: Love the book, hate the ending
Review: I'm not dissapointed about the realistic stuff. Harry acts like a teenager, the best 15 year old I've seen in young adult books. Cho and Harry's relationship is straight out of real life.
The books grew up with me, that was the major thing I'd been dreading-- that they would stay kids books. I don't read young adults anymore, even, except special circumstances. I read adult fantasty books. This book wasn't adult for sure, but it wasn't for the little kiddies either.
But books always end with a climax, and the Harry Potter ahve always ended wonderfully with them. Instead this book ended with an ending that struck me as mostly pointless, even the death didn't effect me the way such an important character's death should.
This book can be easily summed up like this, "Everyone gets somewhere, but ends up where they started." I wish I could praise this book like I have praised the others, and maybe my opinion will change when I re-read it, until then-- I'm very dissapointed.
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Summary: gotta luv it
Review: i reddit so fast i had to read it the first day or it wouldn't count this si what reading is all about to do it now now now now now!!!!!!
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Summary: A good read - but a frustrating one!
Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is, like all of J.K. Rowling's books, a page turner. The story grabs you right from the beginning and holds you until the last page. The book has a darker feel to it that was hinted at in the later chapters of Book 4. This is understandable as Harry is older and his feelings are more complicated. His emotions are on a pendulum swing from sharp anger to deep insecurity, and the reader feels those emotions right along with Harry. If I had one complaint about the book, it's that Harry never seems to catch a break. He's a walking, talking Murphy's Law. If anything can go wrong it does. By page 600 I was desparate for something, anything to go his way. As for the death scene(yes a major character dies), it happened so quickly as part of a battle scene, I almost didn't realize it had occurred, but Harry's reaction and subsequent working through his grief are very real and touching. All in all, I'd say that I wouldn't count it as my favorite of the five, but the Order of the Phoenix stands head and shoulders above most other books of the same genre.
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