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Summary: Potter's Back
Review: It's been almost 3 years since I completed 'Goblet of Fire', and so it was with much anticipation that I went out and bought 'Order of the Phoenix' on opening day. I've just started it, and it promises to be the best of the lot! The volume is really luxurious, with full-colour endpapers and a rich colour cover.
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Summary: Where was the editor?
Review: Oh dear. The very talented Ms Rowling has finally fallen victim to her own stupendous success, and she's relying on her reputation to do the work for her.This bloated tome needs to be cut in half. It needs all the adjectives and adverbs and flabby writing removed. One character snarls three times on one page! Most of all, it needs Harry to lighten up. OK, he's going through adolescent angst... but does he really need as many tantrums and shouting matches? The brave boy has turned into a boring whiner. What are Bloomsbury thinking of? This reads like a book rushed into print, rather than one that's been edited. It doesn't bode well for number six and seven... What a shame.
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Summary: It was WORTH the wait.
Review: I have gotten 0 hours of sleep, but it was worth the wait. Rowling has once again done a fantastic job of taking us into the worls of the Wizards and Witches. She shows us Harry, Ron, and Hermione growing up and displaying all of the wonderful (and sometimes not-so-wonderful) things that all children (Muggle or not) go through. All of her characters respond in the book with frightening realism. I cannot say enough good things about this book, except that now I want the next one... Happy reading!
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Summary: Awesome.
Review: Stayed up all night reading it--well worth it, even though it took me from 12:05 - 8:24 a.m. Incredible book; revealed quite a few interesting pieces of information about the connection between Voldemort and Harry. Don't want to give away too much at the moment (not that I could, my head's spinning from the caffeine), so I will just say that it was a truly amazing book, and that it was well worth the wait.
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Summary: Harry Potter - Teenager
Review: Advantages: The wizard "fight" scenes in this book are amazing. Disadvantages: Harry is now an angry young teenager and is nothing like the boy wizard we know and love.
After learning that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix would be released at 12:01 am I decided to go and buy it asap. I thought that maybe I would read the first chapter or so and then go to bed, refreshed for a good long reading session on Saturday. Things did not go as planned. I bought the book at 12:04 and was still awake at 6:37 am this morning after reading over 400 pages of the book. To say this book is amazing is an understatement. Harry has grown up. He is no longer the child prodigy or boy wizard that we have grown to love. Instead we meet Harry in the middle of his summer holidays. He has been shunned by his friends all summer, not been invited to the Weasley's home and had no contact from Albus Dumbledore. He is confused, hurting and desperate to speak to someone from the magic world. What he gets is a visit from two very scary old enemies (trying not to give too much of the plot away) that make him question who his friends are, and more importantly, what you-know-who is up to. The book continues with the re-appearance of some old friends (mad-Eye Moody and Lupin), some very scretive goings-on and the re-emergence of the Order of the Phoenix. The order was set up to fight Voldermort and his supporters and we soon see that in the world of the wizard, ignorance is bliss. The Ministry of magic denies that Voldermort has been re-born and instead set out to discredit Harry and Dumbledore. Without analysing the book chapter by chapter I can say that Harry is threatened with expulsion from Hogwarts, finally returns there after a looo-oong summer and then finds that the new defence against the dark arts teacher is the worst one in a long line of failures (remember Gilderoy Lockhart?) The magic world has gone topsy-turvy. Dumbledore is ignoring Harry, Hagrid is attacked, Harry is having a series of frightening visions, is kicked off the Quidditch team and .....well....it wouldnt be fair to spoil the rest really would it? As for the death of a beloved character.....I have to say that it was as bad as i expected. The character dies in an amazing battle with a horde of death-eaters and Harry's world (you didnt think HE was going to die did you?) will never be the same again. This book was fantastic to read. I appluad J.K Rowling. However my personal favourite at the moment is still "Goblet of Fire". Let me read this book another two or three times and I might change my opinion. This book is well worth the wait and lets hope the next one comes quicker shall we?
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Summary: OUTSTANDING RETURN OF HARRY!!!!
Review: Rowling has done it again. Keeping me up all night after a midnight run to Macroin's Bookstore to pick up Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The best volume by far. Action!!! Adventure!!! and Wizards!!! What else can you ask for? Except for volume six. In the works of Ben Diddlin, "This book ROCKS!!!!"
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Summary: Wow!
Review: After an almost 3 year long wait, I was thrilled to get my hands on this book. And, after staying up since midnight to finish it, I can happily say that you probably will be too.
We first meet Harry back on Privet Drive, stuck with the Dursleys and desperate for news of what might be happening in the wizard world. Luckily, he escapes his relatives fairly quickly, but his frustration at being kept in the dark continues as the older wizards who have joined the Order of the Phoenix ( a group determined not to let Voldemort establish another reign of terror) are unwilling to tell Harry & his friends much of what's going on in the struggle because of their age.
Things are no picnic at school either. Harry faces a lot of different challenges in his fifth year at Hogwarts, including OWLs and the increased involvement of the Ministry of Magic in the running of Hogwarts. Since Harry knows Voldemort has returned, he finds it hard to keep quiet when the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher refuses to admit Voldemort's rebirth, and as the Ministry passes increasingly severe ordinances which govern how Hogwarts is run. Also, Harry's ability revealed in book 4 of sometimes being able to see what Voldemort is up to increases, as does Harry's fear that perhaps this power flows both ways, and Voldemort can see what Harry's up to...
I don't want to go into too much more detail, reading the book is infinitely more fun than reading this review, so a few last thoughts:
The Weasley Twins are really in their element throughout this new book; there's a whole lot less Quidditch, which was a pity; Harry steps up and accepts a great deal of responsibility to try and help his friends and fellow students prepare in case of an attack by Voldemort; we get to see a lot more budding romances at Hogwarts which add to all Harry's worries; and an important person in Harry's life does die.
I can't wait for book 6 already.
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Summary: Could not have been better!
Review: J.K. Rowling's 5th edition to the Harry Potter collection is amazing and the readers will not be disappointed. The death will suprise some readers, but some might have been...expecting it? Well whatever the case, readers will walk away beyond satisfied with memories from this great Hogwart's year.I highly recommend this book for readers only that have read the first four books. Otherwise it is confusing and almost unenjoyable to read. The background of the characters and past events are essential in the Order of the Phoenix. Do not hold back, get your hands on this book and read it today!
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Summary: J. K. Rowling manages to do it again!
Review: The fifth installment of her book was even better than the last one! It kept me on the edge of my seat and I couldn't put the book down. Even though it was almost 900 pages, I didn't want it to end, wishing that it was instead 9,000 pages!
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Summary: Very Entertaining
Review: All in all this is a very entertaining story. It is obviously a must have for Harry Potter fans.
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