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Summary: Almost a 1000 pages, and still I wish there were more!
Review: I don't want to give away ANY plotlines at all... So, I will just say that this is by far the best Harry Potter book yet. Fabulous! J. K. Rowling, when can we expect Year Six? :-)
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Summary: Dark, Deadly and Delightful
Review: Wow. Even though I've enjoyed the first four Harry Potter novels quite a bit, this one is above and beyond all that came before. Voldemort is back, Dumbledore is being conspired against by the Ministry of Magic, and all in all the wizarding world seems to be falling apart. With this background, Harry enters his fifth year at Hogwarts...The atmosphere in this book is like a cross between the four earlier books and a retelling of the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich. Behind Harry's almost-usual misadventures is the undertone of how wizarding society is being changed by the return of Lord Voldemort. There's enough magic to entertain the youngsters, but enough foreboding and doom to delight the most jaded adult fan, like me...
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Summary: Excellent! A fabulous fifth book and another masterpiece.
Review: If you are a fan of the Harry Potter series, you will undoubtabley love this latest novel. With all the detailed imagery, watching the plot unfold before you is amazing. Some younger readers may have a hard time with this book, as it is once again darker than its predecessor. Harry is dealing with a lot of anger and rage in this book, and there are much fewer happy times in this book as the Ministry of Magic makes life difficult at Hogwarts. This book is very long, but is enjoyable to read cover to cover. I am wondering, however, how long it will take for the sixth book to be realeased and how many pages it will contain? One thing is for certain, this is one of very few books that I delighted in reading all (870) pages, and would do it again! Fantastic, and I hope you pick it up too. And if you haven't read the other books, it's about time you joined the rest of the world, dont you think?
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Summary: J. K. Rowling casts her spell over us again
Review: Where to begin? After pushing through all 870 pages of this book in less than 48 hours (despite promising myself that I would read it slowly, savoring it chapter by chapter), I am still trying to clear my head and sort out everything that happened. The book itself seems to have a spell over it, not allowing the reader to put it down until it's dramatic, heart-wrenching conclusion. Only it isn't the end, it's the beginning of yet a darker phase in Harry's struggles against Voldemort and we are as burdened as he is with the knowledge of what the future must inevitably bring. After waiting so long for this installment in the series, the sense of satisfaction and triumph at finally being allowed to delve further into Harry's magical world is tempered by the sense of separation and loneliness that our hero is left with at the conclusion of his fifth year at Hogwarts. For he has faced another tragic loss and faces still more in the coming books, to be sure. He is indeed no longer the wide-eyed innocent and unassuming boy that we met in his first year. He is a teenager on his way to adulthood and is suffering all of the growing pains that come with such a transition. He's moody and sullen, confused about the mysteries of the female mind, and prone to fits of rage that, I must admit, made me wonder how Ron and Hermione put up with him. Harry's temper gets the best of him numerous times throughout the story and I found myself irritated with him. It occured to me however, that this was because it forced me to see Harry as a normal teenager with all of the flaws and weaknesses that adolescence brings, instead of a perfect hero. But while his temper tantrums and mood swings peg him as just your average teenager, the tragedies that he has faced and will face set him so much apart from those around him, that one is left to wonder whether there can be a happy ending for Harry Potter. I was left with a sense of melancholy upon finally closing book 5, and I found myself wishing the battle with Voldemort were already over and we could go back to the happier days when Harry was starry-eyed and amazed to find himself at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And I can't quite put my finger on when Harry's world stopped being so whimsical and began to seem menacing, just as I can't quite pin down when Harry started to lose his wide-eyed wonder and instead became angry and weary. Clearly, we are in dark days for Harry and I only hope that J. K. Rowling wrote a happy ending for our tragic hero. After all he'll have been through, I think he'll deserve it.
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Summary: What crawled into Rowling brain to make her write horror?
Review: This is the most depressing book I have ever read, there are pockets of light and nothing more. It's chapter after chapter of anger, of mistreament, of cruelty...and 870 pages of sadness is more than anyone should have to endure. I do not recommend this book at all. It's tragic that after 4 extremely well written books, Rowling felt she had to follow it up with this dark piece.
How this book could ever be made into a movie, I surely wouldn't pay to see it.
And now I really doubt I will read 6 or 7. Why did she ruin the series by penning this angry and cruel book?
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Summary: J.K. Rowling has done it again!- and better than last time
Review: Though the first 400 pages are a little wordy, they were really a necessary set-up for the second half of the book. And boy did things really pick up then. Ms. Rowling (don't know her new married name) has manage to get inside of the mind of Harry and his psyche is now an open window to us- much more open than ever before. She has developed some really great story lines for the next two books and I really can't wait to purchase those. I hope the next one doesn't take as long to get written published and distributed although I do understand the writing process is not always easy. I started reading Saturday evening and once I reached that 400-page benchmark, I was not able to put the book down until nearly 4am Monday morning knowing I had to be to work at 8:30am! Great book! Good Job Ms. Rowling! Keep in mind though, that there are some heavy subjects in this book, more than in the 4th one w/ Cedric's death so please use parental discretion.
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Summary: Finnally Some Answers
Review: I have just finished reading this book, and it is by ar the best one yet. All I can say is that finnally almost every question you could want answered is, some startling facts are revealed, and a forboding prophecy of things to come is made.
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Summary: Wonderful seires, but this misses a step
Review: Part of what made the Harry Potter series so amazing was the mystery. There was always an unmasking, clues all around and funny subplots to tide you through. Book four was the height of this concept, with the International Quidditch match and the Triwizard Tournament, it was action packed. Book five however is not. There is no mystery, there is a sub-plot about a series of dreams that really goes nowhere, could have been left out of the book. I raced to the end of the book to find out who dies, and even that was disappointing. I'm not sure if the person is really dead or not and it was definatley not an emotional departure. I was honestly hoping for more.
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Summary: Rowling does it again!
Review: Bravo! This nearly 900-word tome was, without question, the best of the five books so far. Harry is growing up -- and it's not easy for the boy wizard with the burden of the safety of his world litterally on his narrow shoulders, but Harry manages to come through with as much grace as possible under the circumstances, and surely kept me well entertained throughout this page-turner! Now, all I can do is settle back and wait for year six at Hogwart's! Keep up the good work, Ms. Rowling. You are a blessing to all your readers and to the children of the world who are discovering the magic of books from Harry's adventures.
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Summary: The Best One So Far
Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is simply the best Harry Potter book that has been written as of this point! It takes him on many new adventures and introduces new charachters like the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Dolores Umbridge, senior undersecretary to the Minister of Magic(hem,hem) and a rude house elf. Other twists are Ron as keeper in Quidditch, Harry having dreams at night that really happen, and the exams at the end of the year called O.W.L.'s. The book builds up to the end which leaves much room for the next book as Lord Voldemort builds up his followers. I hope theres not another three year wait to till the next book.
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