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Summary: This is such a different book that the previous four
Review: After staying up all night to read it, nearly all I can say is "wow." I don't know how JK Rowling can make an 850+ page book feel as if it has left off in the middle of a narrative.Order of the Phoenix is darker than the previous four and is better for it. Harry has become a teenager both physically and emotionally. For most of the beginning of the book, he's an angry young man whose emotional outbursts are both entirely appropriate for him, but seem to only serve to dig him in deeper holes. The second half, he learns to direct that anger and is better for it. For the central characters, their character development is much deeper in this book. Hermione and Ron are developed, as expected, but Neville and Ginny's characters are developed. This provides a much better framework for the book and for the next two. The book is rich.
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Summary: When is Book 6 coming out?
Review: This book is wonderful! I went through the whole process of pre-ordering this book, standing in line for my copy at midnight, etc. I foolishly thought when I got home that I would browse the book for a half hour or so, but not start reading it until the following morning. Once I began reading, I was hooked. Eating and sleeping became secondary. The process of getting this book was well worth it. I was worried that after anticipating The Order of the Phoenix for 3 years, I might feel less than satisfied after reading it. Nothing could have been further from the truth. The story was everything I could have hoped for and more. One of the best things about the Harry Potter series has been that Harry and the other students have been allowed to realistically age. In The Order of the Phoenix, Harry - as well as several of the students: Ron, Neville, and Ginny - get to develop more as characters and are start to show signs of thinking more for themselves, rather than always reacting to everything (Hermione was 35 years old from the time we first "met" her so didn't have as much maturing to do as the rest). I realize that book only came out today, but the main question I was left asking as soon as I finished reading The Order of the Phoenix was "When is Book 6 coming out?" (can I pre-order it yet?) :-)
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Summary: Awesome! My most favorite book yet!
Review: Ok. I've just finished! Your probably like "Ya. Right." I did finish the book right now. It's awesome! I love it! I gave the book ONE STAR because of Rowlings unique way of writing, ONE STAR for love of the characters, ONE STAR because it keeps you interested, ONE STAR because it's Harry Potter is the best (there's no doubt), and ONE STAR because It's a fun type of education in disguise. YOU WILL TRULY REGRET IT IF YOU DON'T BUY HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. COME ON! DON'T MISS OUT ON ALL OF THE FUN!
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Summary: Wow.
Review: Rowling's outdone herself. There's been little spoilers floating about the web for the past few months, and Order of the Phoenix has been the subject of an absolutely absurd amount of speculation. And still, despite having some very creative guesses, she blew me out of the water. I read this entire thing in one sitting, because I had to know what happened next. Buy this. You won't regret it - until you finish it and think about the three year wait for book six.
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Summary: What a shock
Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix differs from the other four books in so many ways that when I first started reading it I was unsure I had even picked up the right book! As can be expected after the ending to the fourth book, this latest volume is the darkest yet.
This book explores much more of the magical world, filling in us readers more about the Ministry, etc. Harry, most obviously, has "grown up," and not just in the cover. He's acting more and more of a teenager these days, and his sudden fits of anger can get annoying but most of all, as he matures, he realizes that there isn't just a right and a wrong to any matter.
As far as Harry's social life goes, old frienships and ties are often tested as supporters come and go, while new ones prove to be most useful. As for Harry's love life, well, the fourth book saying "dream about Cho Chang, his crush" didn't turn out to be much.
The long, anticipated wait for the fifth book is finally over, and as far as being satisfactory enough to quench my thirst for more Harry Potter reads, this book does the job exceedingly well.
Although I have to say that it wasn't my favorite read out of all the Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix definitely lives up to the other four books and I can't wait for what J.K.Rowling has in store for us next.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I got it this morning, and I've already read it! It's a great book, best in the series, with a great plot, storyline, and characters. A DEFINATE read!
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Summary: I laughed, I cried, I waited in line for 45 minutes...
Review: Took me a day to plow through it, but in the end, I think it was worth it. At the beginning I was a little disappointed, I thought Rowling was taking the out-of-control-hormones-raging-teenager thing a bit too far and still think so in some ways, but I really did like the book. The story was extremly well plotted, as expected and throughly enthralling, like the last four. The character growth, while abrupt seeming at times was just about perfect. Neville has always been my favortie, and I won't spoil the book but I was pleasantly surprised to say the least. And the death we've all heard about? It'd be blasphemous for me to say anything about who, but I'm not ashamed to say I cried. We've all waiting a long time for this book however my faith in Rowling never wavered and she came through beautifully. I'm salivating for the next one and sad at the same time, because I know there are only two left. Cheers Ms. Rowling!
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Summary: OMIGOD OMIGOD OMIGOD!
Review: Stayed up to midnight with Emma, TR, Syd, and Lisa...what to say but it was well worth the wait! Was so tired I couldn't see straight enough to start reading it until the next day anyway...but, who cares? It's Harry Potter...if you hate it, you won't start liking it...if you liked it...you will love this one...and I ain't gonna give any of it away...so there...
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Summary: Rich, complicated, coming-of-age
Review: "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," like the novels that came before it, seems to grow in richness in tandem with Harry himself. Like Harry, who has grown into a deeply angry young man, the additional length of this book results from the immensely complicated consequences of growing up in a world that is turning upside down. Adults no longer have all the answers, and are just as terrified as their children. Jealousy and trust and love and anger further complicates relationships that used to be simple. The stability of life is shattered, and there are no protective elders who can prevent students at Hogwarts from making critical choices for themselves. People are forced to come into their own as young adults who must negotiate a complicated, dangerous, intense world using only their own judgment and abilities. It's absolutely brilliant, with greater emotional intensity and moral ambiguity than any Harry Potter novel so far.
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Summary: an amazing book
Review: As might be expected, J.k. Rowling has delivered another tale that will delight the hordes of loyal Harry Potter fans. I bought this book at eight o'clock this morning, and did not put it down until I finished it. this was no mean feat, since the book spanned some 870 pages. still, the heft was, to me, simply an added bonus, since it meant more of Rowling's extremely entertaining prose.
I will not spiol the book for others, except to say that the summer goes on even longer than in the last book, and that Rowling really gave very little away when she said that someone important would die. indeed, at a number of points, it seemed as if most of the characters were in mortal peril with no escape.
Rowling introduces a number of new characters in this novel, but old characters get their due as well: some who had only bit parts in earlier books have, at least, speaking parts in this one. this adds a certain class to the novel, as it shows that Rowling has forgotten nothing that she has written in the past, a crime which most fantasy and childrens authors are guilty of. <...
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