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Summary: The Best Harry Potter Book to Date!
Review: In the fifth instalment of Harry Potter's fifth year at Hogwarts, we the reader can find that our heros temper has gone through the roof (In my personal opinion, I like him that way), Hogwarts has turned into some kind of war zone(Hogwarts against the new Defense against the dark arts teacher), a death that brought me to tears ,and the long awaited reason to why Voldemort wants Harry Potter dead.
This novel developes and brings us the reader, up close and personal with the characters personalities, brings closer ties in the houses, and Harry finds himself the leader of a small group of rebelius teens. All in all this is the best book I have ever read and the wait for the sixth book will be harder to bare than for the fifth.
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Summary: Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix
Review: I thought it was great! It was definatly worth the wait line to get it. I would recomend this book to most people. But you might want to reread it again if your under 10 and then you will find out more from the book. This wasnt my favorite in the series but it had more action in it and a better plot to me than the others. Over all I enjoyed the book except for a few parts.
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Summary: Another rough year at Hogwarts
Review: Yes, Valdemort is back, but genius author Rowlings has to keep him around for another couple of books beyond this one. Valdemort cleverly cooperates by staying almost completely in hiding and making sure as much of the magic world as possible doesn't know he's returned. That's what this book is about, rather than the anticipated blood bath: the profound power that evil can exert when it is quietly promulgated, and the unmitigating punishment for those who take a stand against it when it is in this quiet phase. This metaphor for pre-WW II England, and maybe for 2003 in general, is potent. The small band of resistance fighters who constitute the Order of the Phoenix are plagued with profound frustrations which take almost all the fun out of being alive--Cereus cannot safely step outside to get even a simple breath of fresh air, Dumbledore can't even look Harry in the eye, and Harry, kept deliberately in the dark about his long term destiny, has to carry on in almost the total absence of opportunities to ventilate.Yes, Rowlings has chosen to carry her vivid and beloved characters forward into the real world as it must be lived for anyone to stand a meaningful stand against evil. Only the Death Eaters and Fred and George Weasly seem to be enjoying themselves from day to day. Nonetheless, this does not add up to a depressing read. As always, the world author Rowlings creates is vivid, compelling, and a wonderful shared experience for the entire family, who will find plenty to discuss and think about. We loved this book. The plotting is not as surprising as the Goblet of Fire, but that somehow fits the mood of the book better.
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Summary: Wow.
Review: This is book is excellent. Even after all these years, Rowling has struck another gold mine.
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Summary: It's Harry Potter - gotta get it!
Review: Ok, since I got the book, I have read nonstop. I, like a gazzilion others, have waited soooooo long, couldn't help myself.
I was waiting for the happy mystical adventure the other books held, but it's much darker than the others. Harry is in the midst of teenage years and it seems constant PMS - One of the charms of the other books has been the chemistry between HP and Dumbledore, and Hagrid, and others - Yes, a major character dies, and that is a turning point - this book answers many of the questions we have asked ourselves - from why Harry has to stay at the Dursley's to what is truly going on in regard to the 'legend' of the return of Voldemort and the battle to defeat the evil forces - it is fascinating and worth wading thru the angst and angst and angst...
For charm, go back to HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban - for answers to your questions, read this one -
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Summary: The Magic Grows up with Harry... and so should the readers.
Review: So the question on many tounges is whether or not Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was worth the wait. It most certainly was. Darker and more disturbing than previous installments, the fifth book is nevertheless an engaging read and an wonderful reflection on the teen-age years, magical or non-magical. The charms still remains, the dynamics of friendship between Harry, Ron and Hermione; the impishness of the Weasly twins (now with some new twists); the eccentricities of the adult wizards and so on. Rowling's complex plot is the primary draw, though, it'll keep you guessing until you've hit the last page. Just a warning; younger children are likely to be frightened by the book or at the very least, won't understand many of the themes. Kids that grew up with Harry Potter should be able to handle it, though they might miss the lighter tones of the first three and even the fourth. So, anyone know the release date for Book 6? ;)
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Summary: Amazing once again!
Review: I read "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' in a few hours last night. I've been sick with the flu most of the week, and a long, well-written book was just what I needed! She is such an incredible author and this fifth installment of her craft proves to be more proof of that. I won't go into detail regarding the story because there's been so much excitement concerning its release. All I'll say is, read and enjoy!!
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Summary: BRILLIANT!
Review: J. K. Rowling has done it again! The new addition to the Harry Potter library was fast paced and wonderful. Adults and children will find this book exciting and won't be able to put it down until they reach the end. I am amazed at how J. K. Rowling is able to paint such vivid pictures of a whole other world. I loved the book and highly recommend it.
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Summary: A long read, but interesting
Review: This is a saga, and I wonder if J.K. Rowling could have left out some of the incidents to make the book shorter. I don't think it was quite the page turner that the other books were, and I don't have the feeling that I just can't wait until the next book comes out -- which I did have for the first three. On the other hand, it is a compelling story.
Rowling explores several aspects of Harry and the adults in his life that could have made several books. These characteristics show just how much everyone is neither all good, nor all bad -- even the Dursleys. Okay, the Malfoys and Valdemort are still pretty much in the all bad column. And one knows that the new Defense Against Dark Arts teacher wasn't going into the good column.
Harry's confusion over girls and Hermione's guide to what other people are thinking are also quite well done. It is almost as if J.K. Rowling were presenting scripts for confused teenagers on how not to mess up relationships -- which Harry does in great measure.
I think the greatest strength of the book is the exploration of relationships -- okay, I'm a women. For guys, there is quite a bit of magic, fighting and joking. Harry faces a variety of disappointments in his fifth year, but finds one thing he is particularly good at, which is pretty typical for the age.
With all the emphasis on the tests, Rowling leaves it to the sixth book to find out how Harry does on his O.W.Ls. I'm not sure that children in the U.S. will understand just how these tests will impact Harry, in that the U.S. system doesn't have school finishing exams such as the G.C.E.s -- the SAT doesn't count.
I may have missed some of the details of the book, because I was under duress -- my son cooked supper so I could finish the book sooner and hand it over! I will say Amazon did things with a flourish, sending the book by FedEx with signs about the date of delivery emblazoned on the box.
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Summary: Good, but could have been better
Review: Don't get me wrong, i think it's a great book, but because she took 3 years to write it, I thought it would have been better. I have heard that when she wrote the part where someone dies(i won't say the name-some people haven't finished reading it yet)she cried, but when i got to that part, it didn't seem the least bit emotional. I recommend that everyone should read it, at least once. For those of you who haven't read any of the previous books and are thinking about going on to the 5th instead, I would advise against it. There are so many references to the other books, you would be very confused if you just picked it up. Although it is different to the first book in the sense that he is no longer an innocent young kid, it still manages to have the same, for lack of a better word, fairy tale type of ending in which good wins over evil, even though it is not a strong sense of it because of the death and a few other things that i shouldn't tell because, again, some people haven't finished reading it.
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