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Summary: Rowling is on a rowl with her newest book
Review: I was so happy when i finnally got my OoTP book. And when i started reading it was great!! Harry is going through some tough times and seems a bit more snappy and bitter throughout the book. There is a lot of suspense too, you could never guess how this book ends from the beginning. I highly recomend this book!!
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Summary: This is a great book
Review: This is the best book in the series!My friend already read it twice!!
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Summary: Absolutely FANTASTIC!!! Better than the others!
Review: First of all I want to say that I was the first one out of my circle of friends (all of us at least sophomores in college) to get this book, and I was nearly mugged when I announced that I was done with it.Ms. Rowling is as wonderfully spellbinding as ever, and as usual, leaves her readers dangling on tenterhooks for the next installment in the series. While a major character is killed off, the rest of the book is so enjoyable that you can't force yourself to put it down. From Quidditch matches to trouble with house-elves, Professor McGonegal to Hagrid, everything that makes these books so danged addictive is here in spades.
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Summary: what happened to the wands?
Review: I have just read each review with less than 5 stars searching for the answer to the question. "Am I the only one who noticed?" In the culminating scenes the trio is disarmed. How is it possible that they appear wands in hand later on? Has anyone else noticed?! It just dropped the bottom out for me. I have always been so absorbed and transported. But when this editorial misshape occured I am brought right back to "oh yeah someone just made this up." I would buy it agin and read it again because I love the world of Harry Potter. I was not dissappointed until this point in the book, but it really ruined it for me. MS. Rowling has always seemed to me to be very painstaking in tying up lose ends. I have to wonder was it a dealine? Was it just too big of an editing job? Or is the editor afraid to comment on such a successful writers work? How could this book have been published with this hole in the storyline? Where is the integrity seen in all of the previous books, even the mock text books from Hogwarts?
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Summary: HP5 is a fun read, but also a frustrating one.
Review: I offer my sincerest condolences to those avid Harry Potter fans who so eagerly anticipated the release of the fifth installment of JK Rowling's fantasy series. As a devoted HP reader myself, I understand any and all disappointment in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. We deserved better from such a talented writer as Rowling. In HP5, it is apparent for the first time that Harry is growing up. His crush on Cho has intensified. He is impulsive and willful. He is moody (to a fault: here "moody" means, almost by default, "angry"). He wants some answers, and he wants them NOW. Harry as a teenager is the book's first fault: he is too angry too often. Rowling has left out the most important part of being a teenager--more intense even than the angst is the intense relief from it that friendship brings. To be fair, Ron and Hermione cannot give that kind of solace in this book--they are less developed than in the other books. While Harry is growing up, Ron and Hermione aren't. There is little camaraderie between Harry and the others, and as far as we can see they share none of the angst, rebelliousness, or crush-love that Harry feels. Rowling's other big error was with Sirius. As a reader I had a hard time liking Sirius in this book--in the time Rowling devotes to him, all he does is mope around the house, disobey Dumbledore's orders (in place to keep him, a wanted fugitive, safe), and give plenty of advice to Harry that only ends up endangering his godson. I can accept this of a 15-year-old boy; but not of an adult who is far better able than Harry to see reasons for things. But as the title of this review says, HP5 is also FUN. The good parts of this book are not just good, but Rowling at her absolutely delightful best--well-written and engaging, with a gift for character development and for accurate, wry descriptions of both the humorously mundane and the fantastically magical. The chapters devoted to the Dursleys are superb. Funny and horrible as ever, the Dursleys have become real characters--they are undergoing change, and they have histories. Fred and George Weasley and Neville Longbottom are also fantastic here--they too are becoming more real, with histories, futures, and purpose. Rowling's descriptions of the Department of Mysteries is some of her most imaginative work--firstly, she thinks to admit that there are mysteries in the world, such as time, that even wizards do not understand. Second, she has come up with perfect ways to represent these mysteries physically. Much of what is frustrating about this book could have been easily fixed with a more complete editing process. I blame Rowling's publisher for this book's disappointments, because HP5 has the potential to be the greatest yet of Harry's adventures.
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Summary: Best Book yet
Review: This book proves that Harry is still human.
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Summary: Lacking Luster & Excitement
Review: Well, after highly anticipating the arrival of this book and finishing it from cover to cover, I must say that I was greatly disappointed. The book did not give me the overall thrills compared to the previous volumes. There was not enough action and when I heard that one of the main characters was going to die, it was not what I expected. Now I am hesitant about reading the next 2 volumes, wondering if they will lack luster. Hopefully the series will not end that way.
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Summary: Excellent book, annoying voice!
Review: The book is fabulous as always, albeit a bit overly wordy. Sadly, Jim Dale's singsong voice is irritating. Also, he'll do a line of dialogue which ends with something akin to, "she said sharply", having not spoken the words sharply at all! Annoying.
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Summary: Unbelievable Dissapointment
Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is perhaps one of the biggest let downs ever. This book was horrible all around. The addition of the Umbridge character was the biggest mistake ever. She took all excitement out of the book and made it so long and drawn out, I could barely stand to finish it. If i was just an average fan, I never wouldve finished the book it is so bad. There are only 2 chapters where some form of excitement happens, ... The book is horribly predictable and long. Everytime you think it may get better, it doesn't. It gets worse.
The fourth book was so great, but this book just is an embarassment. I only recommend this book so that you know what is happening during the sixth book. This book was a big let down folks, if you don't see this, then you're incredibly naive, or just stupid.
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Summary: Harry Potter is Stupid!!!
Review: Yeah, I called the entire Harry Potter series stupid. Even the movie that recently came out was the dumbest thing there ever was. I hate to see people engrossing themselves into these books about witchcraft, heathens, and a nerdy boy with a bowl cut, Pepsi bottle glasses, wears black dresses, fights with a stick, and goes to a school named Hogwarts. Wow the name of that place would sure look good on a job application. Now how pathetic is that. This little weakling fights monsters with a stick. Oh no the monster might get a splinter, that you know, might get infected. Why doesn't Harry carry a gun, probably because he lacks the upper body strength to even fire a bb gun. Come on now people read something with a little sense in it. Read something about realistic people and realistic situations, and quit reading about freaks and magic.
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