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Summary: WAS THIS A COLLECTION OF ROWLING'S REJECT PAGES?
Review: There is little magic to this book literally. It dwells on insignificant character development and degrades your favorite characters to unlikeable levels. No new clever plots or creative items to satisfy your imagination. This story could have been reduced to one chapter to a much better adventure, instead it leaves you no further than the last book, he doesn't even really advance in school. Those who loved this book obviously are fans to the bitter end and can look past a lackluster story. Rowling is an amazing author and we should expect more from her.
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Summary: Suspensefull, This was very well writen;Can;'t wait for #6!!
Review: I read this book in 3 days, i couldnt put it down. Anyways The detail was great.You finally learn a little of what happened to snape and why he hates Harry.However, now harry has become snape. an outcast who people jeer and discriminate against.How can you not feel sorry for snape after finding out a little of what happened in the past and now poor Harry Is starting to feel just like snape.And you also see a more inside depth of what is going to happen to draco malfoy and harry now that harry has exposed draco's fathtr as a death eater.I think the book was a little long and could use a trim down of pages.However i would like to see more of the background of petunia dursley and exactly why she fits in the picture.I think its very sad siruius is dead, however i am hoping j.k. will work her magic very fast and finish the next book soon, I am really wanting to see how this is going to end.
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Summary: Must Try Harder - see me after class
Review: No, it's simply not good enough. Rowling has finally lost the plot. I zipped through this in 3 days, not because I was gripped, but in the hope that it would improve. A misplaced hope.Why does HP5 fail? In no particular order: 1. Too much exposition. Unlike the previous books, which were hot on action and event, there's way too much standing around and talking. People are forever explaining things to each other. It's dull, dull, dull. 2. Good ideas have become overripe. For example, Magical Creatures. Originally so well characterised, in this book they're introduced at a rate of knots, and they just merge into a mish-mash. The same is true of the school syllabus. Like the Magical Creatures, names of exams, lessons and schoolbooks proliferate wildly. The whole satire loses its sharpness. Similarly, the satire on the exam system is now hopelessly overdeveloped, for no good narrative purpose. 3. Self-regarding writing. I can't quite explain why, but the filming of the first two books has exerted some negative impact on the writing. Somehow, the dialogue and scene-building are screenplay-ish. The net effect is of weary cynicism and a desperate striving for effect. 4. Too many idioms! Rowling has the idiom of schoolkids very well. But in this book, every other line is an idiom. It becomes tiresome. Anything good in this book? Yes.
1. The brilliant character of Umbridge, the self-styled Head of Hogwarts.
2. The superb satirising of Government bureacracy with the Ministry of Magic - both its phyisical appearance and the officialdom within.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: I liked the first four books but the fifth was disappointing. Rowling decided to make everything too dinghy and dark for it to fit in Harry Potter. It was really bad and the characters grew up at an unreal rate. It seems like all the characters grew 3 years older in the space of 1 month. Don't read it.
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Summary: harry potter
Review: i thought the book as gripping as Jk rowling's other HP novels, but i felt like there was something missing that all the other books had. it wasnt the fact that it was darker, because i really did emjoy that aspect of it, but i felt like the characters' personalities were slightly altered and the overall movement of the book was different enough for me to feel like it wasnt as magical as the other books. i give the order of the phenoix 4 stars as a part of the HP series, but a 5 as the book on its own. ive only read this book once through, so maybe ill rediscover the magic in the second time i read it, which is def. probable. if uve read this book once, u need to give it a second chance if u were disappointed.
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Summary: Addictive Reading
Review: JK Rowling has taken a lot of criticism from other authors that her books are not "serious works", are "badly in need of editing" and so on. Bollocks! They have characters that make you care, plots that are action-driven and seem to develop in complexity as the characters get older. It's not Shakespeare - but it's well written fiction. In this book Harry is angry throughout - but he has three things driving that: loneliness, fear and possession by Lord You Know Who. The people who ascribe it to adolescence haven't read the book.
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Summary: The BEST Book Ever!!!!!!!!
Review: This book (along with the other ones in the series)is my favorite book in the whole world! What J.K. Rowling does is truly magic. She takes Harry's feelings and puts them into words so well, that we feel exactly what he feels. When Sirius died and Harry was running after Bellatrix we felt the anger and sadness he felt by losing Sirius. When Umbridge gave Harry detention we felt his hatred toward her. When he yelled at Ron and Hermione and then felt ashamed we could all relate to that. When Rowling writes the Harry Potter Books, we not only know Harry's feelings, we feel them. I really don't think that if anyone who was against the books actually read the books they could hate them. What makes most Harry Potter fans mad is that some people who claim to be against witchcraft or whatever and say they hate the books, when they have never even picked up the books and read them! If they would just give the books a chance they would be very glad. Anyways this book is the best book ever and I would reccommend this book to anyone who could read and understand the book. After three years of waiting I have to say that this book live up to my expectations and not a single word in the book is wasted. So, make sure you buy (and read) this book!!!!
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Summary: A great book that makes you stoked for the last 2!
Review: In retrospect you will think that not much happened in almost 800 pages but it was still loads of fun. I would have enjoyed some new magical creatures with bigger roles. However, I like seeing the old ones come back too. My biggest complaint is that the the book uses many of the same plot elements as earlier books. The most obvious of these similiar plot twists comes at the beginning of the book before he goes back to school. In fact, this lack of originality made the book a little less enjoyable for me. Because it was at the beginning, I thought that the entire book was going to be less creative. However, there are some interesting twists and it was by no means disappointing just less enjoyable than it would have been if there were some new problem he faced. Just my 2 cents!
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Summary: BEST BOOK YET!!!!!!!1
Review: Best Harry potter book yet! I read it in four days, i couldnt stop myself from reading it!
This book was full of suspense, you never knew what was coming up. Very sad, also, my favorite chacter died. *sniff*
a must read for any harry potter fan, the first thing you'll think when you finish the book is "when is book #6 coming?!"
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Summary: And beyond the veil lay...
Review: After waiting in line to get my copy and blazing through the pages in about less than two hours I was simply out of words. I had been terribly disappointed. Though it was not such a bad book I can't say that I am glad that I bought it. I know that Harry is now a teenager and his glands are now developed, but for the usually passive Potter to go ballistic in the story's timeframe of give and take two months is completely out of character. Also Harry's heated outbreaks of self-absorbed screams are hardly believable. Harry's attempts to gain attention when fending off Dementors is quite annoying as it is inconsistent with his behavior in the Third book where Harry's behavior was, as most of you might remember, more of concerned for his own welfare and safety. Shouldn't Harry Potter be even more worried about his and his friend's lives, now that You-Know-Who has been resurrected? Anyway, fans will not fail to notice that the plot twists that made the series legendary are missing. The few questions that were answered at the end of the book like: "Why is Lord Voldemort after Harry?" have not really been given light. I mean it is already obvious from the start of the story that Harry and Voldemort will eventually have to duel each other to a supposed death but to not give a "why" is just annoying. Anyway the book is all right in relative terms but for those who have been itching to find out what's going to happen next with our young wizards should be forewarned. "The Order of the Phoenix" might not stimulate you as much as the previous books in the series. For those who are die hard fans of Harry Potter well there is enough here to keep you reading, though I'm wondering if it is enough to keep you guys entertained. My suggestion is to borrow the book from a friend and make sure you really, really, REALLY want it. Seriously, I was a Harry Potter fanatic before this book. I waited patiently for it. I am sorry to say that I'm heartbroken that my old joy in flipping though a Potter book's pages is now gone.
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