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Summary: More is not better...
Review: Oh, for the good old days of the 300 page children's book. The format is the same (one year at school) but somehow it's told in three times the words. Start reading from about page 600 and you will find a fast paced interesting book. Before that, expect long slow thin writing. Too much angry angry Harry with the first sign of happiness from Harry being the last paragraph of the book. O.K., we get it, Harry is an angry confused teen. Enough. Too many one dimensional villains who hate Harry for flimsy reasons. I really don't mind the long wait for the next book...
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Summary: Please don't give away the story
Review: I have to say, I'm extremely disappointed. Not having read this book yet, I thought I'd read the reviews to see how others liked it compared to the previous books in the series. Now, I'm afraid, I'm left with no surprises. PLEASE don't give away the plot of the book (ESPECIALLY which important characters die) in your review, as many of those reading the reviews have not read the book yet!
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Summary: pure magic
Review: J.K.Rowling has yet again produced an engrossing and very readable book. It should prove as big a hit with Harry Potter fans as the previous books in the series 'though how well it will appeal to the younger reader I am not sure as this book is a lot 'darker' than it's predessesors. Harry is now 15 years old and has become a moody, angry teenager, very different from how he has been portrayed previously. At times it is difficult to like him and sometimes his behaviour is downright annoying. However Rowling has sympathetically portrayed the 'angst' of teenagers and the difficulties of growing up whilst still managing to weave a captivating story and maintaining the magic that is Harry Potter.
Favourite characters are still around as well as some new ones including the truly horrendous new defence against the dark arts teacher, Dolores Jane Umbridge who proves not only unpopular with the pupils but also upsets the majority of the staff.
Harry learns more about his past in this book and also discovers why he must spend his holidays with the Dursleys even though they obviously don't want him around. He also grapples with the difficulties of his first romantic relationship. The reason for Professor Snape's antipathy toward Harry is uncovered as more of Snape's past is disclosed.
As enjoyable as all the other Potter books.....hightly recommended.
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Summary: This adult loves book 5!
Review: For 20+ to a hundred years old out there, read this book and you won't regret it. You will fall into the world of Harry Potter. The author succeeded in creating a whole range of extreme emotions you can feel beautifully: excitement, regrets, jealousy, accomplishments, trusts, and loyalty.
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Summary: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Review: I enjoyed Rowling's 5th book about Harry Potter. The story becomes more and more interesting and adventurous. Also, you can feel Harry is growing up and he starts having teenage problems:)
I have read some bad reviews about the book but I think it was due too much advertisement - everyone had great expectations of this book.
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Summary: Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix
Review: Of all the harry Potter Books I found this one to be the most humorous. The first six chapters are simply hilarious. Though my personal favortie remains Goblet of Fire, the most disappointing thing about Phoenix is the way Sirus Black was taken. With less explanation then when Cedric Diggory died, you would think being Harry's Godfather they would have devoted more story to this great character. What a simple tragedy that J.K Rowlings decided it was his time to go. Devoting a simple paragraph to the end of this persons life was totally dissappointing. He deserved far more then what he received in this installment of the series, I feel he still had so much to offer Harry and the Books. In itself this book is predictable where her last four keep you on the edge all the way through, knowing who would be the one to die was easy to figure out. Also knowing it would come down to harry or the Dark Lord was easy to figure out. Four of her Books where spell binding, this one seemed to lack the punch and the mystery of the last four. We can only hope the last in the series don't fall as short as this one did. Overall it was a good read, though not what you would have expected from J.K. Rowlings after the last four master peices. What a true lose to this magical world Sirus Black had so much to offer, and was seen for only a very short time. Still a fan of these Books and Rowlings, in anticipation we wait for the next book to come out, let's hope it doesn't take as long as Phoenix did.
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Summary: Harry potter book
Review: This book is the biggest load of rubbish that I have ever read. cl'ched story line, rubbish charactors, and that idiot who wrote it gets millions of pounds? why? what is the point of this rubbish? dont buy it...seems to be full of teen anger. Harry is mad at one thing or another thru the whole book. The end seems to just "drop off" like JK Rowling was not sure how to end it so she just put him back on the train home. I look forward to number 6, but hope Harry is less angy. Over all a good and fun read.avery. It is not his fautl that the person who dies really didn't have to die. Harry was kept in the dark and made connections on his own as he did in the previous books. They were just the wrong impressions because of Dumbledor's failer to tell Harry very important facts. This book is darker but that stands to reason. Voldemort is back! It is a dark time; a time very similar to before Harry was born and Voldemort was loose. I also think Rowling made some decisions for her adult readers, which, unfortunatly, left her child readers in the dark or too bored. This is the only reason I am giving it 4 instead of 5 stars. This book shows that the characters, even the great Dumbledor, are far from perfect. But the bravery, intelligence, and even some humor can still be found here.ere she takes the psychic connection between Harry and Voldemort in Books 6 and 7.ible situations in the background (minus harry but ive mentioned my thoughts on him already). There was alot of laughs and alot of things in the story were intriging, so im not saying the story was overall BAD, but more just lacking in some weird way. I say to all READ this book it is worthwhile, but expect some flaws. And hopefully she will show us in the next books a great end and repay for the stuff left 'hanging'. maybe book 5 is like the matrix reloaded, we just have to wait for the next books to see what happens!!he Phoenix, and as a closing comment- HARRY POTTER RULZ!ving fans happily awaiting another volume of magic to devour.or ourselves, and no one else experienced exactly what we did -- this is the basis of our adult selves, each unique. The experiences, relationships and, critically, the choices we make in these years have an enormous impact on the development of our "selves." For Harry Potter, the backdrop for this transition is more extreme -- more fantastic as well -- than for mere muggles like ourselves, but Rowling imbues such an emotional reality that the magic is almost irrelevant. Beyond the plot and the exploration of adolescence, the Order of the Phoenix operates as an extended meditation on the distinction between moral and social (or even "legal") right and wrong. As Rowling illustrates, there does not always exist perfect congruence between these conceptions of "good" or "right" conduct. It isn't as simple as "good" and "evil" -- the most important conflicts appear among the different groups who are opposed to Voldemort, the embodiment of evil. Rowling draws subtle, and sometimes not-so-subtle, parallels to other conflicts between socio-legal and personal-moral conceptions of "right" that should be familiar to those acquainted with Martin Luther King's or Gandhi's philosophy of civil disobediance in the face of unjust laws. If you think I am overstating the case here, or making too much of "kiddie books," you are wrong -- or simply in the dark. There is much to commend in this book on the level of profound moral exploration -- which makes the religious backlash against the Harry Potter books that much sadder (and ironic). I wish that the people who would burn this book could see past the magic wands for a moment and focus on the moral education that is the real core of these books (increasingly so, as the series progresses). Parents should all delight in the Harry Potter books -- not only for their wonderous power to make Nintendo seem boring in comparison (to reading!) -- but also for the opportunity they provide to discuss important issues of values and morals with their children. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition
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Summary: Needs a continuity editor
Review: In general, it is a very enjoyable book to read, very suspenseful as always - BUT the pleasure of reading it vanished entirely for my part in the 7th to last chapter:
Without SPOILING too much, I can say that it was a major letdown that Harry loses his wand and so has no means of defending himself and Hermione - and in the next chapter his wand is back in his hand without no explanation. I was so disappointed!
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Summary: Far from expectations
Review: As a Harry Potter fan, I can easily say that this book is far from expectations. Most of the great aspects which made Harry Potter series so famous are lost in this book. Starting with the "Goblet of Fire", J.K.Rowling started to repeat herself with every book. There are too many falshbacks to previous events in this book, and I believe this disgusts the reader after sometime. Nevertheless, this is sure a must have for every fan.3/5.
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Summary: Will Potter Rise Again?
Review: After gaining my interest with the first four Harry Potter books, author Rowling managed to use up all of my good will in a single reading of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Harry has grown into a whiny teenaged punk with attitude and an opinion on everything. Some have suggested this makes Harry believable, as this is how real teenagers act. To them I say: if I wanted to be exposed to real teenagers, I wouldn't be reading fantasy, would I? For a book coming in at well over the 500-page mark, HPOP actually has very little to say. Fortunately, however, it says it repeatedly, so those of you who missed on the first go will be bonked on the head until comprehension sets in. The actions of the book's principle players are inexplicably out of character and convoluted, which allows the book to ramble on, creating false tension. If anyone spoke his mind and cleared the air, the book would be a one hundred-page pamphlet. This is not to say that parts of the book are not enjoyable. Many have pointed out the darker tone to this book, which makes it more entertaining to me. Rowling has also retained the signature humor. But I'd be happier if she learned to tell her tale, drop the adjectives and remember which characters are which, so they don't get confused about whether they are supposed to be helping Harry or hindering him, concealing the truth or exposing it. And if Harry himself could just bring himself to say, "I'm sorry," he might have a powerful friend for life.
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