Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5 Audio CD)

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Summary: looking forward to book six
Review: I have been anticipating this book for over a year, but now that I've read it,I'm not sure it was worth the wait. While the story picks up almost exactly where the fourth book left off and is filled with more colorful characters than any of the previous books, it was missing something. This book was definitely a good book, worth reading! However, I was slightly disapointed, though I look forward to the sixth book.

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Summary: This Book was too boring
Review: this book was way too boring, the first four were decent but this was just an agitation. dont buy it.

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Summary: Rowling at her best!!
Review: Harry Potter is growing up. In the fifth installment in the bewitching Harry Potter series, the young hero is up to his eyeballs in adolescent mischief and wizarding horrors. Harry receives his first kiss from Cho Chang, is filled with anger and resentment at Dumbledore, and is at war with the Ministry of Magic. And yes, all the rumors are true. Readers find out why some wizards become ghosts and some do not, an imporant (and lovable) character dies, and Harry finds out EVERYTHING. This is one of the best written, most enjoyable books ever written. I just have one complaint: If Harry gets his first kiss, when are
Ron and Hermonie going to get together?!

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Summary: EXCELLENT!
Review: I must admit that I am not one of the serious Harry Potter fans... I didn't stay up all night to buy the book nor did I read the book immediately after I brought it ( I brought the book on 21st June because I was just right walking by Borders..) . Man, I nearly didn't manage to finish the 4th book! However, the fifth book is really excellent! I just keep on reading non-stop.. My brother was like saying to me, 'it's such a thick book, how are you going to finish it?' While, i started reading on Sunday afternoon and finish it by Monday early morning! In this book, a few questions of Harry's past are answered and there is the death of a person who is one of those closest to Harry.. Inside Hogwarts is just as exciting, with the coming of a horrible character... The book is interesting and promises you a exciting ride to the good, old magical world of Harry Potter!

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Summary: A great book
Review: This book was the best book in the Harry Potter series yet. It had a great plot and a lot of suprising twist and turns. A Dumbledore vs Voldemort battle is in this book even though it dosen't last very long. There is a main character who dies in this book, but he was only in the last two books. HINT! HINT!

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Summary: Politics for children?
Review: I personally cant see how this series can continue to be considered a childrens series... all the dark goings on, including what I consider a major death at the end of GoF and with the 5th book bring in politics in full force that was hinted at in the previous book. This book started off rather slow compared to the previous 4 although it did start picking up towards the end. Im not really much into politics, however the fact that Rowling encased that topic from the magical point of view did relieve the often confusing "Who did what and why?" aspect of this novel. However it was not enough to make this the best book of the series, and not enough to consider this a book for children.

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Summary: Excellent, but still a tad shallow...
Review: This was another excellent Harry Potter tale. I enjoyed it as much as the last three, but the first in the series is still the best. The dipiction of Harry's moodiness is very good, showing much of the illogical and unpredictable angst that all teenagers suffer (myself included). I thought that maybe the shift from innocent kid to teen was a bit abrupt from the last book, though.
The only real problem with these books, and the reason this one only got four stars, is that the villains lack depth. Umbridge is mean for the sake of being mean. Fudge is stupid, and I'm almost suprised that Rowling didn't work that into his name, like the werewolf, aptly named Lupin, or many of her other characters. Snape is given only minor depth in one particular sequence, but it was only to augment the character of Potter's dead father, James. Normally I would dismiss it as something that a child would not be able to understand, as the Potter series is a children's book; however, it isn't. The language and ideas are very mature, though the story is still whimsical, to a degree. Adults read this series as much as children do, if not more so.
All in all, a good book. Would recommend it to anyone who has time to read an 870 page novel.

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Summary: Book5
Review: Well, Book Five gets off to a slow start. If I had to sum it up in one word, VAGUE would be it. For most of the book, both Harry and the reader are kept in the dark about everything. The big ending is not that big. And the main event is over with rather quickly. The addition of some new characters is somewhat entertaining. I did enjoy Fred and George's adventures in joke making with the seed money Harry gave them from the tri-wizards winnings from Book Four. Perhaps after books Six & Seven there will be some spin off books or perhaps comics or cartoons about the adventures of Fred and George. I do enjoy J.K.'s vivid descriptions of the wizarding world in this book. Book Five wasn't the on-the-edge-of-your-seat-read that Book Four was. Overall, I was a little dissappointed with the Order of the Phoenix after being so thrilled with the first four Harry Potter books.

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Summary: ....very good
Review: wow! this book took me around 24 hours to read, it was undoubetdly a page turner as were the previous 4 in the series. The book truly did not live up to MY expectations but nonetheless it was very good...i personallly found goblet of fire much more fast paced and interesting with many more adventures and subplots...yet the fifth book focused more on harry growing up, his friendships and relationships with girls(cho...or hermione?) etc etc
basically, harry was learning many moral lessons dealing with loyalty, leadership and most important friendships
I am not going to reveal anything about the book because that would spoil it but I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was very well written....i would say that it is a bit more adultish in nature than the previous were but one could have speculated that at the end of the fourth...anyways
enjoy!

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Summary: Hmmm...
Review: Well, it was certainly an attempt, but all and all, i was incredibly disappointed with Harry Potter's 5th year at Hogwarts. After the last two books (Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of fire) i was expecting even more. But i found that i got quickly annoyed with Harry Potter and his attitude problem. He was a very unpleasant character in this book, and i found that, even after the first 200 pages or so, the book hadn't really gone anywhere; the whining irritating even more. Alot of the story line was unnessisary and just added to the drawling pace of the over 800 page book. There were some new characters in the book, but no one very promising. There are some parts of the book that are funny and leave you wanting more, but the anxiousness decreases when dealing with the long chapters and the over extended type of plot. But my greatest dislike of the book was over the ending, which i will not reveal to you (becasue i hate when people do that). I will just state, that it has left me a very miffed reader.