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Summary: Best book of the year 2003 for adults and definetly children
Review: I didn't read the book fast like other fans, but still I was staying a bit late in the night reading. The book was amasing especially in the end. The book is filled with adventure, suspence, fun and drama. I suggest to all who haven't read it to buy the book.
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Summary: Love It! - especially there developing feelings
Review: I love it! I love how characters are starting to change. I found this very much in the Harry and Hermione relationship, where it is becoming somewhat ambigious in certain scenes about what they think about each other. This could set up a walloping triangle between the 3 principle characters. I also like the "beginning" rivalry between Hermione and Cho Chang. I hope that this rivalry develops even moreso in the next book. I am somewhat getting bored with all this "scar" business, so i would like J.K. to get rid of Voldemort at the end of book 6 and leave book 7 to be well open for a nice climax rivalry between Harry Potter and the evil, dreadful Draco Malfoy.
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Summary: Decent read but I don't believe Rowling's the author
Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a moderately enjoyable read, however, it contains almost none of the style of her previous works. The characters are much more shallow, Harry is constantly whining, and the book is a bit too long. I got about a quarter way through and thought "this doesn't read at all like the previous books in the series" The vocabulary is completely different as well as the rhythm of the story. Either J.K. Rowling took some writing courses (while she was courting, marrying, and honeymooning), or there were one or more different writers involved with this book.
All in all it was enjoyable, if not a bit darker than her previous works. I'd recommend this book, but only if you've acquainted yourself with the four previous installments
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Summary: Read this!
Review: hey. i thought this book was good. i am still 300 and something pages from the end - god, LOADS of pages to read. it's long but i love that cos then u can enjoy it for longer but it's a long slog to the secret and makes you wanna skip to the end and read it anyway. it kinda tends to increase the chances of you doing so - i mean, what's the point of slogging through 400 or so pages to get to the end? well, all that said, i must say, i didn;t think harry was that good before. but now, i think it's GOOD. i mean this book is surprisingly good- though a little depressing. - last bit and all - shan't spoil it for you. but i LOVE how harry's all angsty and gets mad all the time. and how he has to do piles of homework.
the book is so good it's like stepping into another world - teh world of harry potter. it's wonderful. and it's magical. and it's spellbinding. that's magic, enough!
well, there was some lovely characterisation in this book. for example i loved ron. should have seen more of him but still. hermione was good too. you can see how there might be the start of a relationship between r and h. loved how h kissed ron before the quidditch game and he was just staring! okay, im spoiling it all for u lot who haven;t read it.
well, i thought there was just some terribly boring stuff and a whole lot of info overload in this book but it was still pretty good. it was GOOD. it was SO sad when whatshisname dies. and the secret, was really good! yes, great secret. (just took a long while getting there)
LOVE the pensieve scene with james and snape. that was an EXCELLENT characterisation on j k rowling's part. i would have LOVED to know more bout james sirius lupin and the lot of them and lily. and that bit on snape was really lovely.
what is UP with malfoy? is he startign to get on your nerves or what? I think we should see another side to malfoy. his whole pottersucks rant thing is gettign REALLY old and it's already book 5.
all that said, this is a GREAT story about adolsescence. love to see how harry's growing up. can't wait for the next book!
this is a must-read!
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Summary: Highs are High, Lows are Low
Review: Rowlings "Harry Potter" books have been a fantastic success with both children and adults for a very simple reason - they are incredibly well written. In this book, Harry is 15 - it's no secret that the formula for these books starts with an 11 year old Harry in book 1, and he ages one year per book. I think the book does a wonderful job at capturing what being 15 years old is like. It's a time and an age when emotions are crazy thanks to the new experiences of hormones - and you can see that with all the yelling that Harry does in the first hundred pages or so; at times it seems Rowling forgot to turn her caps lock off. The things that happen to Harry in this book can be emotionally draining, everything from the unfair way certain professors single him out to the larger problems tied up with who he is and the bigger problems he is involved with. It's just like being a 15-year-old yourself through the experience of reading it. That makes it a wonderful experience. Even better are the bright moments, and I won't give them away, when the little triumphs bring the mood up to soaring heights. Just like a teenager with dramatic body chemistry, you get to share those highs with Harry, too. If you are new to Harry Potter, start with the Sorcerers Stone and enjoy the books in order. These books are designed to be digestible for young readers, but Rowling is understands that young doesn't mean stupid. That's the magic that makes these books so addicting for both children and adults alike.
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Summary: Harry Boring and the Order of Whining
Review: I just couldn't believe what I was reading. Harry Potter, the amazing boy I learned to love during the first 4 books, became in this one a whining teenager. Maybe teens are a little bit like that, but please, not all the time. This makes him quite a desagreeable and anoying hero for the story. What about the other characters? They haven't evolved at all. They keep acting as the first book,and hey! people change especially in the psychological aspect. I don't know what happened to the author but... it's quite comprehensible. She probably was pushed too much to write good or even better book than the others she had already written. But still, even if I forgive her, I can't elude the fact that it was a very boring book, even for me and I'm a fan.
Ps: for JKR, if you are planning to make Harry fell in love with someone, please, make this girl someone interesting, not cho chang, nor ginny weasly. I don't want stupid preety girls who just fall for the hero of harry potter because of his past history. I don't know, maybe Voldemort could have a secret daughter.Who knows what may rise from that love story...
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Summary: All the way to the word "scar"
Review: Why are so many people wild about Harry? I have a fascination with the thought of teaching at Hogwarts. Over the last year or so I have read the various Potter Books and watched the movies. I listen to the music on the soundtrack CDs while working. It sets a nice mood for me. Why? There has been a flurry of writing over the issue of why Potter has been such a hot item. Why do children like to read the books? We have their quotes to read over and think about. Some declare reading them has pulled them away from the abyss and toward success. Adults ponder these issues and offer various reasons why they think they have been so popular with children. Better, they also ponder why the books have been popular with adults as well. Notice that lady JKR says she wrote the books for herself, because she liked them. Some have detailed the perfect fit the stories have with the trends in political and economic aspects of British or American society. Others have described the wonderful use the plots make of classic templates that always win hearts and imaginations. Harry is Jesus made flesh. Those who see a satanic cultus have been pretty much laughed out of town or they live in towns most laugh at. We also have the interplay with public relations and the media. Lady JKR received good PR even prior to the first publication of HPP/SS. The news media were interested in the poor single mother making good. It was like magic. Scholastic bid high for the rights in America and that meant a burden was on them to produce fans. They did a good job. But of course, the book was good in its own right. The movie stuck to the text, so to speak. One thing AOL did right. The kids would have been disappointed otherwise. Now when we read we picture things according to the film for better or worse. Frankly, I could never have imagined the delivery of lines such as, "It does not do Harry to dwell on dreams and forget to live." as well as Richard Harris did. Bless him. The irony of it hurts, but it sounds like good advice and one reason to dwell on someone else's dream when it delivers such wonderful insights. With so many enjoying the books each for their own reasons, it makes little sense to think there is a peculiarly important reason why the books have enjoyed the overwhelming success they have. There are lots of reasons. I do not want the story to stop. It bugs me that I have to wait until next June to see the next movie and even longer to find out what happens to Harry next. But I know I have to be patient. I don't want JKR to feel rushed. I want her to do the job right all the way to the word "scar." .... Well, no tickling sleeping dragons. [website]
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Summary: No error
Review: This book is amazing, JKR just gets better and better.
Actually there is no error with the wands, Malfoy took Harry's wand not Umbridge. The book later tells us that Ron hands it back to Harry (along with Hermione's) after Ron and the other DA members escape from the Inquistion Squad.
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Summary: Too long
Review: This is probblay one of the best in the series but it is to long. A friend of mine is a professal editor and says that is could have been cut about half because there is to much information. One example is Ms Rowling explains how they cleaned a dresser in a long paragraph.
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Summary: Very good book, but not as good as the others....
Review: I couldn't help feeling some disappointment when I read this book. I remember reading the first chapter and noticing how much Harry had changed. It shocked me! I didn't expect him to ever be so mean. Then again, he has been through a LOT. Maybe it was just me, but sometimes I felt like I was reading a fanfiction story instead of the real thing. It's probably because I've spent a long time reading fanfic's while waiting for this book to come out. The death was a disappointment, but I'm sure J.K. Rowling did it for a good reason. She wouldn't just kill off a character just for the heck of it, would she?? This book was slow in some parts, but I still couldn't put it down! The ending was a disappointment. Dumbledore's "I'm going to tell you everything I should have told you five years ago" seemed too predictable. When I finished this book... I was depressed. This book is so sad! And I'm right along side Harry at the end. He's depressed, I'm depressed. Harry Potter Depression. I know I have said a lot of my "disappointments" about the book, but really overall it's a great book! Just me being a die hard Harry Potter fan, I think I got my expectations way too high over the three year wait. So don't take as long on the next book, okay J.K.???! : ) I'm sure when all seven books come out in the series, everything will make more sense and all the puzzle peices will be put together and I'll love each Harry Potter book equally. Oh, and if you haven't read any of the Harry Potter book's... get started NOW! You don't know what you're missing! And I'm still as big of a fan as I was before book 5. I'm hoping book 6 might come out next summer. Pretty please J.K.!
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