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Summary: Order of the Pheonix
Review: All I can say is "Wow". I waited ... for this book, and just finished reading it. Wow. I didn't think the Harry Potter series could get any better. I am curious as to what Rowlings is building the pain in Harry's scar to be. And why won't that darned Voldemort just stay dead? Seriously, I do recommend this book to any of the fans of the Potter series. Outside of the exorbitant reading that it requires, this book is great. I wonder how many hours the movie would have to be? :) I don't however recommended it for the younger readers as it is quite long, and they may lose interest throughout some of the chapters. If I could, I would give it a 4.5 Star review as it is lengthy, but 4.5 rounds to 5Stars in my book! :)All and all, I am only left with one thing; "Wow"! :)
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Summary: Not as I expected...
Review: It pains me to say this since I'm such a big Harry Potter fan and want nothing more than to give 5 stars... but I have to admit I was a bit disappointed. I read it non-stop till I finished, hoping it would get better, but until I read the last page, it didn't quite deliver. The action was slow (actually, there's not much action come to think of it), there were few funny lines, it didn't have a lot of new interesting magical stuff like in the other books, and there were very few surprises. Harry also seemed to be not his usual brave, generous, and kind self here... he was most of the time confused, angry, reckless, and a bit selfish :( Still, I'll be waiting for Book 6... I'm still hoping that makes up for this one. After all, the previous 4 were just excellent, I don't want to believe the others won't be anymore.
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Summary: Prisoner of High Expectations
Review: J.K. Rowling has made a name for herself by writing children's books that appeal to everyone. The saga of Harry Potter, originally not likely to be much more than a local curiosity in Britain has sprung into what is perhaps the most sucessful series of books in history. It has been three years since the last book, Goblet of Fire, was released, and fans of the series, swelled by the two films released in the meantime, have grown impatient for a continuance. Most will be disapointed. With no desire to give away the ending or the secrets of the books, I can still reveal that 1. Very little seems to happen in the book and 2. The two major events of the book, which occur in the last one hundred pages, are handled poorly. Other gripes-the three major villains of the tale are neither frightening nor dangerous (like the faux-Moody in GOF or Sirius Black in PoA), Harry's rebellion kick gets really old, Ron and Hermione spend the entire book doing nothing, and the secret is something we could have guessed since the beginning. There are some decent features-learning more about Snape, Sirius, and an increased roll for Neveille. The greatest flaw of the book seems to be, in the end, the overly high expectations that three years without a book built. Still, in a whole, the book is better than 95% of anything else out there, and is still better than Chamber of Secrets. Pick it up, but wait until the paperback comes out.
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Summary: Great continuation in the Harry Potter saga...
Review: I don't want to give away too much about this book, in particular about any of the very important spoilers which have already begun to slither their way through the internet, so I will use vague language. This is a great step in the legacy that is the Harry Potter series. It is a considerably more mature book, and it demands a considerably more mature mindset. Harry is 15 years old now, and he is behaving much like most people behave when they are 15, he can be angry, he can be awkward, he can feel out of place, and unlike everyone else... he's "the boy who lived." I definetly suggest it.
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Summary: WOOOOW! The best one yet!
Review: I just wanna let you know, that unfortunately for me, I've finished the book. It's amazing how good it is, cause today is June 21 and I've had this book in my hands for less than a day. I'll have to wait God knows how many years to read the next installment. It's scary, funny and human! The author is a genius and beware... there are a LOT of surprises, one MAJOR death... fights, YOU KNOW WHO,etc. The ending is a major cliffhanger and I cannot believe it yet. BUY IT NOW
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Summary: The Best One Yet!
Review: There were occasions today that I had no choice but to put the book down. As brief as these moments were, I was barely able to withstand the separation. When you read this book, you will not feel like you are reading words on paper; you will feel as though you are experiencing an adventure. It is an adventure that will leave you breathless and exhilirated. ...
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Summary: Best in series by far
Review: The latest in Rowling's magical series about the boy wizard Harry Potter, The Order of the Phoenix is also a third again as long as its prequel, the Goblet of Fire. Rowling's characters have aged in this installment, and have, just as her writing has, grown more complex as they enter adolescence. The book delves much further into themes such as life, death, love, and their meanings that were introduced in Book 4. Though it is a behemoth, the pages turn themselves almost as though propelled by some magic spell conjured by one of Hogwarts' students, and grows more complex and compelling as the story unfolds. My one and only complaint about the book is the remarkable pause it places on life outside the book: when reading it, one cannot seem to pull one's self from its grasp for even the simplest tasks, and as a result, readers should prepare for long hours in a comfortable, quiet location.
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Summary: A great novel in a great saga
Review: I'm keeping this brief, as they are plenty of other people who are doing their best to give away the deepest secrets in the plot or claim that it's all occult detritus. If that's what you want to read, you do have the chance. What I will say is that the fifth book in the Harry Potter series is everything anyone will want or need it to be; a excellent book that delivers on the now-high promises of an excellent series. Although it is not perfect, there is little that is.
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Summary: Heck of a Book
Review: It is an excellent book. Well worth the wait.I am glad harry is finally growing up.....
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Summary: Let's go, guys!
Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is to my mind the best Potter book yet, though this is of course a matter of taste. The big change is the attitude of the series - Harry Potter's chief virtue in the first few books is that he's a nice, brave kid, able to appreciate the wonder of what's around him because he was raised in such deprived conditions. Bad things would happen, but people would help him and he'd deal with it. And there was a sense that everything that happened to him was yet another random benefit of his unusual birth - in short, the books were funny and entertaining, but they lacked real suspense because the protagonist seemed to be totally surrounded by several layers of deus ex machina. This book changes all that. Here, Harry Potter's birthright is his biggest problem - the scar on his forehead is endangering not only him but other people, the newspapers are calling him a glory-hound and a liar, his relationship with Dumbledore, through no fault of his own, becomes strained, and even his father, in whom he was ceaselessly proud up to this point, becomes a figure of suspicion. In response to this, Harry starts to act like a typical teenager; he is whiny, self-important, quick to judge, and a pain to be around for Ron and Hermione, who are often more patient than he deserves. Harry's previous good luck has given him a combination of arrogance (he gets angry when Ron beats him out at something) and fear of responsibility. Ultimately, he wises up and takes responsibility for himself, taking a true leadership role for the first time, and the results are utterly tragic. There's something really nuanced at work in the way this book deals with failure and loss. There's a scene early on in which Molly Weasley begins to cry as she realizes that her family will probably not survive the war with Voldemort intact, and that even so, even though she is terrified for her husband and children, she is going to fight. The idea that the world of Harry Potter has changed, that every choice now has real consequences, is reinforced again and again this book, and the result is that Potter himself seems more human, his world more fragile. It's also nice to see Harry dating, but of course the more interesting relationsip, Ron and Hermione, has yet to go anywhere, and that's the one everybody's waiting for. Maybe next book. In the meantime, there's lot's of everything one normally likes in a Harry Potter book - magic, laughs, Snape being nasty and cool all at once, Voldemort being evil, Hagrid being an idiot...the list could go on forever. This book is truer to the formula set by the first three books than Goblet of Fire was, but that actually proves to be an asset here. In short, if you haven't bought this book, do so right this second and read it immediately. It's worth it.
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