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Summary: Rowling outdid herself!
Review: As an adult who has really enjoyed the previous Harry Potter books, I was eagerly awaiting the fourth installment. I had heard the book was 700 pages but when I actually saw how thick it is, my heart kind of sank. I thought there was no way she could "keep it going" for that long. I am pleased to say that I was wrong! This was, as always, an entertaining read. It also was not what anyone expected, I think. I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise, but suffice it to say that Harry fans will not be disappointed and will keep turning pages eagerly until the end. The story moves along at a great pace and is just fascinating. And I was very surprised by what happened! I can't wait for #5! I guess I will have to bide my time rereading 1-4!
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Summary: An amazingly written book...
Review: I came back from a holiday and found myself going straight to our local British bookshop to see if the books had arrived yet and to my utter delight they told me that I was only the second person to have come to collect my pre-ordered book since they had arrived the hour before!I went straight back home, didn't even bother unpacking and started to read. It has been 2 days straight and still I have only stopped to eat and not even sleep much! The book is amazing. What with more read to enjoy and the quietness of my bedroom I am really enjoying it. I love the way J.K.Rowling writes, it grips you so that you have to continue reading because you think that you are going to miss something if you so much as put it down for a second! It is so well done,at the Quidditch World Cup final,the description is so real that you can just imagine the crowds and the players, as though you are somehow part of it! I made a promise to myself that I would savour every word that I read as I went on but found that my eyes were being pulled from word to word so fast that in no time at all I had finished the chapter. I think that each book that she has written has definitaley been a masterpiece without question and that it has entranced both adults and children to the amazing stories and exciting and wonderful characters that she has been able to conjure in a world full of mystery and yet magical excitement that will almost certainly be Classics in the near future.
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Summary: This book is the most awesome of all!
Review: I have read all four Harry Potter books, and I have to say that this one is the best of all. The plot gets really complicated, and I was fooled by several of the characters Rowling has in the book. Just as the rumors indicated, there is darkness and death in this book, but none of it is there for show. Every character, every incident in the plot, every description of scenery are important to the plot. It was good to see all the favorites from the first three books in this one, too. Sirius Black, Hermione Granger, the Weasley clan, and even the nasty Slytherins are here, and Rowling does a great job of continuing to develop their characters. The increasing strength of Voldemort adds the expected sinister tone to the book, and the Weasley twins balance the scary scenes with hilarious ones. Their business enterprises are very appropriate and add comic relief to the novel. Certainly, no reader will forget the Quidditch World Cup, the Goblet of Fire scene, or the Triwizard Tournament. Once again, Rowling has created a vivid fantasy world, rife with magical spells and the classic showdowns between good and evil. This book will only make readers want to read more!
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Summary: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
Review: In this book, J.K Rowling has finally unveiled the complete world of Hogwarts in every riotous, headlong detail. She has written another great adventure of Harry Potter's as it is written in the book about the summer holidays which are dragging on and he can't wait for the start of the school year. It is yet the fourth book and Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy. He is much looking forward to this year of exciting spells which are to be learnt and lessons to be attended. Although Harry is expecting these, other quite unexpected events are on the march. This book is like a continuation to an unfinished, exciting and thrilling story as from the very first day Harry was born, and how he suffered living with his aunt and uncle until he was accepted into Hogwarts. He had his ups and downs but certainly had a lot of adventure at Hogwarts. Now, after much awaiting, the story of Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts has certainly arrived. It was worth the wait and it is now worth reading.
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Summary: Excellent Reading
Review: This the fourth volume of Ms Rowlings Harry Potter series is an excellent read. I am 20 years old and would never have thought of reading a "childrens book" if my sister had not waved the first volume in front of my face and told me it was worth a look. So skeptically i picked it up and was pulled into a world i have hardly ever been pulled into by a book. The story was truly immersive. After finishing the first i had to read the second and third. They only got better as the series went on. This series of books is truly for all age groups though some children might need help with the references/language that the books contain. When the fourth installment came out i knew i had to buy it. I read it in the day that followed and wish even now that i hadn't finished it so quickly. Waiting for the next one will be an excrutiating task for I must know what happens next. The Goblet of Fire is a pivotal book in the series. It outlines the plot that will start to happen from now on. Rowlings Potter series is truely captivating. They appeal to the inner child of us all and expand our imaginations. I definitely recommend this title to anyone who is literate. Now to wait the 11 months till the next book in the series comes out. It will be a long wait might as well read the series over again =)
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Summary: The ball rolls ever a bit slower.
Review: I'm not going to spoil the story for those of you who haven't yet read the book, but this book is vast and I'm afraid, following on from the previous books it was a bit too much for me. Having bought the other three books only a month ago, I read them all very quickly. The first two I greatly enjoyed, reading them on sequential days. The third took a bit longer, firstly because it seemed less exciting - it had too many twists in the plot but less coherence - and the whole atmosphere was much darker. The fourth book seems to have moved even further in this vein as Rowling's publishers happily admit. I should emphasise that I am an adult reader, and these books are, of course, aimed at children. Furthermore, having read all four in such short succession increased the possibility of "saturation", so maybe I am being a little unfair. It's just that despite, or maybe because of, the first two books' being such good adventures, I feel that the formula isn't so well suited to sequels as CS Lewis's Narnia series or the (admittedly very different short stories of) Richmal Crompton's Just William series, and certainly not to sequels that are ever larger and more convoluted. That said, anyone who can get millions of children away from their Nintendos, Playstations etc and reading books deserves a round of applause! Sorry
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Summary: Best Yet
Review: Amazingly the Harry Potter books keep getting better and better! Harry is older in this book, and you can tell because the issues dealt with in this book might be a little bit scary for the younger readers. But always as in the pervious books, Harry learns an important lesson and we learn more and more about the world of Wizards.
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Summary: Absolutely Amazing, the best yet!
Review: Wow, I can't believe I'm the first one to get this in...I'm sure there is going to be a flood of reviews soon though. I just finished Goblet and it totally amazing, it is so much better than the first three (which are excellent). It is dark, funny, and touching. The ending actually brought a tear to my eye. EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: It's Magic
Review: It's really magic.. again Joanne K. Rowling did it! I was glued to the pages and read the night through. I couldn't help laughing out loud sometimes, feeling wonderful for again meeting characters so unbelievably funny in this book. The writing is daring, this book is somewhat grown up compared to the the predecessors, like a creature of Hagrid's. Wonderful and funny yet dangerous and dark. It's very dark indeed in several aspects, though not cruel (as many and me along them feared). The Universe, that Joanne K. Rowling created has reached a size that equals it in my opinion to J.R.R Tolkien's Middle Earth. It has the quality of a spell, entrancing the reader and being convincing in every aspect. While there are people in this book who are victimized by dark forces there is always hope! Hope of the individual power of decision and of the help of true friends. And the fun of another year at Hogwarts, somewhat dubious in places, but nothing, a good wizard or witch couldn't handle! This is a great book!
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Summary: A dark side of harrys world
Review: I will be blunt, this book is much darker than the others, at times i felt like I was reading one of the deathstalker novels rather then a childs book. JKR seems to have changed some small details of the universe detailed in the first three books to fit the plot of the forth book. that said, the book is great adventure and a surpurb read.
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