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Summary: It didn't worth my time
Review: The fifth part of Mrs. Rowling's epic clearly shows that there is no magic wand to write a good book. The entire novel appears to be under the Crouch Spell -[...]through the countless pages of the incredibly tedious revelations, the wonderfully silly battles and the unbelievably empty dialogs has been a real pain[...]. Now there is no mystery why the first person who has read the book did so in mere 90 minutes: this just gives you an idea about how many of nearly 900 pages are actually worth your time.
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Summary: Harry Potter: The teenager
Review: In the new Harry Potter book(order of the phoenix)we find Harry to have changed. We see a side of Harry we have never seen before, his fast temper. Upset from being excluded from the magical world, we find Harry brooding and angry. He is no longer frightened of Dudley, no longer listening to his Aunt and Uncle, Harry is a fast maturing teenager.
When we finally see Harry arrive at Hogwarts (after nearly being expelled) Harry finds himself and Dumbledore to have become the laughing stocks of the magical world. No one seems to listening to their warnings. We find Corneilus Fudge to have sent a teacher to keep Dumbledore in line; the foul and horrible Professor Umbridge, who sucessfully achieves to make this year the worst of Harry's life.
Along with his friends Ron and Hermione, Harry becomes defiant against Umbridge's unfair regime, which makes him even more moody and aggressive.
Voldermort's power in the outside world seems to be growing, and Harry senses it inside him, but finds it impossible to discuss it with Dumbledore, who is ignoring him.
Full of danger and mystery, Harry is phsycologically nearly pushed to his limits, after a grieving death of an important character.
A shocking revelation at the very end about Harry makes you desperate for number 6 of the series.
This is a powerfully emotional book, making you both angry, sad, happy and down right depressed. At times I found myself asking questions, Do I act like that? or Do I yell at my friends like that?Harry Potter is brilliantly written, and sense that it is pushed towards an older audience who relate to it better.
I recommend Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. You just can't put it down!
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Summary: not standard potter material
Review: Still a great book in a great series, but parents beware. As Harry and Hermione, Ginny and Draco grow up, some of the imagery may not be appropriate for younger fans. Intense make-out sessions and the phrase "shag each other senseless" do appear in the book.
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Summary: Another Enchanting Installment!
Review: As my friends read the first chapter of "The Order of the Phoenix" aloud while I drove us home from the bookstore, I felt the familiar glee that comes with discovering an exciting new Harry Potter adventure. But as I read on, I found that Harry moves into uncharted territory--he gets angry at his friends, and feels the obligatory angst that seems to dog almost all 15-year-old boys, wizard or muggle. It was a little unnerving to see this new part of Harry, but very interesting. The events happen so quickly and furiously that the book nearly bursts with activity and emotion. It's also packed with delightful humor that kept me giggling to myself while people around me gave me strange looks. I figured soon enough things would really have to get moving in the series, and this is when it happens. Romance blooms for Harry, and there are surprising revelations about James', Sirius' and Snape's teenage years, Neville Longbottom, and Harry's connection with Voldemort. Tragedy strikes with the death of someone Harry loves (hope I didn't give too much away with that...). This is a thoroughly entertaining, moving, wonderful book, and any Harry Potter fan will be thrilled. However, if you are a parent buying it for a younger child, I would suggest reading it and judging for yourself to see if the violence is too strong for them.
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Summary: Excellent follow-up to Goblet of Fire!
Review: To those who have never read Harry Potter before, I suggest you start at the beginning or at least back with book 3 (The Prisoner of Azkaban) because many, many characters make reappearances from past books and there are many allusions to past events in this book. To those who are already Potter fans, now begins the agonizing wait for the book 6! This book has many twists and revelations and very tense, suspensful adventures with many near-deaths and (as reported) the death of another character who we have gotten to know and love even more than Cedric Diggory. Harry is definately going through adolescence (complete with grumpy outbursts at his friends and an inability to keep his temper with certain nasty professors) and the world of Hogwarts is changing as the Ministry of Magic tries to discredit Dumbledore in an attempt to vainly deny that You-Know-Who is back. Some teasers for you (without spoilers):
*See Harry's first kiss
*Learn more about Harry's dad and Snape *Enjoy finding out what Fred and George do with the 1000 Galleons Harry gave them at the end of Book 4 and... best of all... SEE DUMBLEDORE KICK SOME [....] The cliffhanger at the end of this one isn't quite as bad as book 4, but it is much, much darker for Harry's future.
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Summary: Mysteries unravel, plots thicken....
Review: Ok, so this book met many expectations, but not all. Still a Big 5 stars, I mean who has the imagination to make all this stuff up in such great detail, with all it's consistency? It's just genius.
Ok so we knew someone was going to die...and I am glad it wasn't who I feared it to be...yet I thought it could have been written in a little less anticlimactic fashion, but I guess with all the suspense leading to this death, I expected blood to virtually pour from the pages of the book.
And I hate to see how dark and morbid these books are turning, with each one, it's 10X worse in the Order than the Goblet, which I again I know is only a natural way for the story to go, especially with all it's components, but I do wish for the Harry of old, way back in Sorcerer's Stone. I hope that in the 7th book things will be wrapped up in almost a circular path, back to the feelings of the first book.
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I was pleased with the evolution of characters of Harry's friends at school as well, seeing more of Cho, Neville, and Ginny, with an addition of Luna. Also seeing the professors more closely, and the introduction of Death eaters in particular characters rather than an anonymous group.
I am very anxious for the next book (most likely will be waiting 4 years for next, I can read it when I am 25...) I hope that Voldemort will rise to a more powerful stance so we can learn more about him, more details of character and his past, as to how he became who he is at the present. I also hope that Harry doesn't do a 180 Ainiken Skywalker turn around and go insane/evil on everyone, because with everything he's been put through, book 5 highly suggests it for the last 2 volumes.
Book 5 is a page turner, and if you follow the series, have read all the rest of the books, well what are you waiting for? It does reveal many questions surrounding Harry and his connection to Voldemort, though more questions still arise from these answers...but if you've never read any of the books, start from the beginning and work your way, or it will make no sense, and this book is by far the darkest of the bunch and you won't catch the true magic from this one. Few complaints, though like I said it just seemed a tad bit anticlimactic, was hoping for a few more big suprises, such as who put Harry's name in the goblet of fire, who was searching for the stone, etc...this book was more predictable than the others. But again, has to have 5 stars because it's still an incredibly written book, and is understandable that the mood and many events in the book HAD to happen as they did, because that is how they are just meant to be, and disappointing or not, it wouldnt be the same any other way.
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Summary: Wow
Review: By far I think this is the best book Rowling has written. So many important events happen in this book. I can not wait to read book 6.
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Summary: Through a Magic Looking Glass, Darkly
Review: Rowling has once again created a novel that seizes its readers and never allows them to put it down. Harry has grown up progressively in the first four books, but at the end of the last book he was shoved into a dangerous, deadly world for which he was not prepared. The new book is dark, darker than any of the earlier books by an amazing degree. No longer simply a boy with a newly discovered magical life, Harry has started becoming a strong-willed teenager who needs to understand why his life is seemingly spiraling out of control for reasons he does not understand. Frustrated further by the fact that not a single adult has taken the time to explain events to him fully, especially his dear and extremely knowledgeable headmaster, Dumbledore, who for nearly the entire first three quarters of the book says little more than two sentences to Harry. Seeing events through Harry's eyes, you struggle along with him and wonder what is really going on within the Order of the Phoenix and why the adults of the magical world refuse to answer his most obvious questions. The book was fantastic throughout, but do not expect it to be lighthearted and cheerful as the majority of the previous books where. There is no chapter that stays happy throughout, and the book honestly made me depressed most of the time. One of my favorite literary characters in recent memory was suffering terribly without reprieve in every chapter. Jokes still come into play (and most had me burst out laughing from the sudden change in mood), but this is a book that is meant to be taken seriously. The war with Voltemort and his Death Eaters has begun, and the worst is yet to come for Harry and his friends. I eagerly await the sequels
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Summary: She has done it again
Review: A wonderful read. A bit more dark than the prior books and a bit more scary for the youngest readers. But Harry and his friends are in their teens now and begin to see the world is not just black and white there are shades of gray in their friends, in their school, in their sports, and in themselves.
WELL DONE!
I can't wait for the next one!
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Summary: A Well Spent Weekend
Review: While it may not be as whimsical as Rowlings earlier Potter books, the Order of the Phoenix is meatier, not only in length but also in the issues that the characters grapple with. I read an article about Harry Potter losing his audience, but what is so fantastic about this book is that it will not only continue to interest children, but as an adult I appreciate this new complexity, and I didn't mind the length at all. It is also creepier, though comic relief, as always, is scattered throughout. My only complaint is that Harry can be sullen and angry, which got annoying after a while, but as he is a teenager, it is age appropiate. The new characters are interesting and well drawn, the plotting is dead on, and as I finished it, I found myself wishing it was a bit longer. Now begins the long wait for the next one.
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