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Summary: Bloody!!!
Review: J. K Rowling is saving her best plot for the last book I presume. In this book there is no real mystery to be solved by Harry, which isn't a bad thing. But I must say I liked the 3rd and 4th book better, and this book was lacking something. Harry gets a huge temper because hes exceedingly troubled. But Harry is finally reaching puberty also;). I just hope that Rowling will put on an invisibility cloak, ignore her adoring fans, and make the last 2 books a major knock out!
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Summary: Awesome!!!
Review: This was a great book. it is exciting, suspensful, and sad all in one. i think it is the best book.
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Summary: A let-down
Review: Like everyone else, I eagerly awaited this book. Big disappointment. It sorely needs editing, perhaps as many as 400 pages could go. I never felt like I couldn't put it down. I read the first four books twice apiece, but I won't bother with this one. The big action scene at the end dragged on forever. The first books had lots of new, charming, and exciting characters and events and spells. This book was just the same stuff and the plot was completely predictable. Well, I'll still read the next one. I'm sure it will be better.
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Summary: Rowling strikes again!
Review: When my mom brought home the fifth HP book. I did a jig of joy,for I knew J.K Rowling would not disappoint me, as she never has.
The 870 pages of pure genius about a 15 year old boy who needs clarifying about girls and needs more information about the wizerding world.Buy it now!
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Summary: Harry Potter has different views
Review: This is the kind of book where you have to read every single word to keep up with the whole book, every event leads to another just like a ladder. He finds himself in another darker event during his fifth year at Hogwarts School, but this time, most of it takes place outside Hogwarts called Ministry of Magic, a kind of magic government. This is a plot where it turns the smartest wizard of the age, Professor Albus Dumbledore, against the Ministry of Magic. It seems that Fudge, Minister of Magic, has chosen to retain his title of Minister rather than save those people who do not believe that Lord Voldemort has returned to power in mid-spring of Harry's fourth year. After many conflicts and verbal and physical battles, it turns Ministry of Magic totally against Albus Dumbledore and was forced to be removed from headmaster of Hogwarts. It is for Harry and company to again save the school from evil events, but this time the whole magic community and also muggles. But Harry, Ron, and Hermione has a couple of help from very unexpected classmates and it turns out they were really great help to them. Without Harry's true-dreams, they are able to make themselves into the Ministry of Magic and into a very secretive room where Harry and company struggle to escape death eaters while being equipped with a prophecy they want that has Harry Potter's name on it. There is a very horrific death in this book and is one of my favourite characters (my lips are sealed). At the end point of book5, Harry and Dumbledore have a very long talk about his parents and why he lived with ihs terrible relative who are muggles.
I would definitely recommend this book to all ages above 10 and give it 4 stars out of 5.
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Summary: Good but not as great as the others
Review: I have loved every one of the Harry Potter books, and enjoyed The Order of the Phoenix too, but, overall this book struck me as average compared to her other efforts.Although Rowling is attempting to convey Harry Potter as an adolescent with growing pains, she created a whiny persona who lacked the inner monologue and intellectual struggles of an adolescent (even though adolescent whine, they think too). Furthermore, this book struck me as a "transitional" text that developed a few leads here and there and dropped a few more, without really telling a cohesive story like the other four books. The overall effect that it was neither here nor there--not childhood or adulthood, and a paltry attempt at conveying an adolescent character. Had she developed this more in this book, it could have been much better. The story is however, as always, very engrossing, and I do look forward to her next book.
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Summary: GREAT Book
Review: Anyone who is a Harry Potter fan will love this installment of the Harry Potter series. There will be those who say the characters personalities have changed, but isn't that normal for a 15-year old? This is a time of growing up. Trust me, I have two kids (?) that are in their early twenties and this is a VERY accurate portrayal of growing pains for a teenager. If you have never read a Harry Potter book, don't start with this one because it brings in a lot of stuff that is in the first four books. But, once you read the first four, don't stop, go immediately to the Order of the Phoenix.
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Summary: A confused Harry and a confusing story
Review: I have been looking forward to the 5th book very much for over months, and I was reading it all the day,and although I must admit that it's really exciting and you simply can't put it down - well, on the whole, it's a bit disappointing. What I really missed was the usual funny and good athmosphere - it was tense and a bit confusing and irritating. i think this book is just a bit too dark in every point of view.And the character of Harry is really annoying - if he continues behaving this way Dudley will be a nice little boy compared to him.
And I think the story isn't satisfactory- It's a bit like it was just knocked up. About 500-600 pages are needless and Voldemort just appears on the scene and disappears in an irritating and strange way.And that prophecy- not a big thing...
And what's the worst - one of the best characters die!It's a pity!
But, otherwise, I think it's a good book and really worth reading!
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Summary: Didn't Live Up To The Standards.
Review: I'm sticking with the title of my review- the fifth book did not live up to the standards of the past four hp books. I felt that the author just filled the book up with a very unmeaningful plot as to just fill up another book. There was absolutley no point in most of the events that happened.
Another major difference in this book was that in all the previous books, the ending (or near ending) would be dedicated to explaining every single odd thing that happened throughout the year- always being that the person we thought was the "bag guy" ended up being the "good guy", and vise versa. But no, the characters in this book were very usless and had no impact whatsoever on any major thing. I agree that it was also not as carefully edited as the previous four.
Anothe very important matter that should be considered is under what view is HP a children's book. I believe it should be for teenagers and above due to the blood and horror and not to mention the length. Children look at a 300 paged book and sigh, let alone the fifth book- the longest yet.
Now don't get me wrong, I love HP but the fifth bk just didn't match the standards. I never let go of the other HP books and just kept reading them hour after hour- but the fifth book took me 2 weeks to finish becasue the events were simply boring!
The creativity was lost in this story, and so was the discriptions. The big change in Harry has made him a character not wanted to be loved any more becasue he has become very hot tempered, and not to mention whiny.
I was truely disappointed by the fifth book and hope the sixth would make up for it.
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Summary: Disapointing
Review: While I felt that this book had many problems, the biggest one was Harry's attitude. He spends virtually the entire book complaining, shouting, feeling sorry for himself and generally behaving like a three-year-old in the middle of a temper tantrum. This attitude that he has taken on makes Harry an unlikable and unrealistic character. No teen, no matter how hormonal and moody spends ALL of their time being like that. I would be hard pressed to find one scene in the entire book where Harry is actually nice and relatively polite through out the entire scene. Also, even IF that was the norm for teens, I really don't particularly like reading about such an unlikable character as Harry's become.
I also understand that Harry has a lot to deal with and all, and I think that I would have quite a bit of sympathy if he didn't keep taking everything out on innocent people. Throughout the book he constantly screams at Hermione and Ron who have done nothing to deserve such treatment. Also, in this book I get the impression that Harry is getting a big head. I understand that he's done a lot, but in one of his screaming fits he says, "AND I'VE HANDLED MORE THAN YOU TWO'VE EVER MANAGEDAND DUMBLEDORE KNOWS IT--WHO SAVED THE SORCERER'S STONE? wHO GOT RID OF RIDDLE? WHO SAVED BOTH YOUR SKINS FROM THE DEMENTORS?" First of all he never would have saved the stone without Hermione and Ron's help getting there, and the same goes for Tom Riddle. Also, Harry never would have been able to save Sirius without Hermione and her time turner. Perhaps he knows all of this somewhere in his mind, but there is still an obvious shift in his outlook. For me atleast the fact that he sees himself as the suffering hero makes him even more unlikable to me. I really hope that Harry gets out of this phase because I'm finding him really irritating.
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