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Summary: THE BEST
Review: this is the best of the whole harry potter series!!!i dont know WHAT the person from maine is smoking,but i know they cant tell a good book from a bad 1.What do u mean its"poorly written"and has"pathetic characters"?!?!?!u probably cant read so u probably dont know what ur talking about.This book is wonderfully written,great characters,reveals alot of things we were wondering,etc.Though i dont get why Voldemort is in every harry potter book except for book 3,but i guess it just makes it more scarier and will make u sit on the edge of ur seat.
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Summary: Fun Reading for Kids
Review: What I like most about these books is that they have gotten my kids interested in reading. I'm not 100% supportive of all that is in this book but with a little discussion before and after I feel comfortable letting my kids read this one(...)
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Summary: I LOVED IT!
Review: I love Harry Potter books and this one is just as good as the previous ones. They are extremely long books but when you read them you become absorbed in the book and can't put it down. You are surprised how quickly you get through it as well! It's a trip into the make believe where you don't have to worry about the everyday problems for awhile.
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Summary: A waste of time!
Review: I just cannot enjoy this book at all. It is poorly written and the charactures are boring. This book also seems to see rebellion as a good thing. Pathetic. If your looking for a good book, read Lord of the Rings. Do not waste your time reading this book,or any of the Harry Potter books. Like I said, these books are just plain pathetic. Why are they so popular? I know! Because people do not know what good literature is.
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Summary: Incredible!!! So Worth the Wait!!!
Review: I have been waiting for this book for nearly 3 years now, climbing the walls this past week in anticipation. And it was SO WORTH IT! "Order of the Phoenix" is incredible--complex and intricate with some new characters thrown into the mix. All of those questions that have been plaguing us since Book 1 are answered...for example, just WHY Lord Voldemort wants to kill Harry, and why Harry has to return to the Dursleys' every summer holiday. I won't give any other details so as to not ruin the book for anybody, but I will say that my favorite part of the book was when the Weasley twins cut loose on the Headmaster of Hogwarts. That was one of the funniest scenes in any of the Harry Potter books! Definitely, definitely read this book!!!
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I have read the whole series and i thought as they progressed they continued to get more entertaining. The Order of the Pheonix was by far the best of the book yet. It has so much mystery and adventure. The best part if that you get to see the more emotional and hidden faces of the characters especially Harry's. I hope J.K. can finish the series off with a bang. I know i am one of the millions of fans who await book 6.
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Summary: long, forgettable book
Review: This book is fast-paced enough to keep a reader's attention, but it really isn't a very good book. I'm going to focus on two reasons. First, the plot isn't very believable. Voldemort just wouldn't have put so much time and energy into getting the particular "weapon" he was after, and the adults in Harry's life who cared about him would have warned him what Voldemort wanted him to do. And the adults who are on the right side, and in power, wouldn't have gone so far in allowing things to deteriorate at Hogwarts. Also, Harry is able to see animals he never saw before, because a person must have seen someone die in order to see these beasts-and yet from the very first book one has been told that Harry's parents died in front of him. Didn't that count? Second, the author seems to assume that her readers are at a more "sophisticated" age, and she panders to that, mostly in showing every single adult in the book to be a failure. The whole series has had the weakness of its young heroes casually disobeying and getting away with it-even finding that their disobedience is what allowed them to win a game or defeat an enemy. But in this book, the disrespect aimed at parents is shocking. Adult heroes talk to and about their own parents using abusive language (granted, some of these parents are pretty awful, but one just doesn't talk to parents that way, and it's also not good that the author consistently shows parents as being so bad that they "invite" disrespect). Ron is forbidden by his mother to join a school group, and the reader knows Ron isn't even going to bother considering her command-he joins without thinking about her command even for a minute. And even the "good guys" among the adults fail. The young people are left to rely totally on their own wits, because the bad adults in this book are usually stronger than the good adults, and the good adults make some foolish mistakes. Even when the young people's "wits" fail them, it turns out in the end to be because adults made poor choices and failed to give them information they needed. Well, fortunately most of today's teens aren't as "anti-adult" as the author thinks they are, but any attempt to show kids that adults are all dumb or cruel is a GRAVE disservice to kids. It's also a disservice to suggest that constant anger and actual disillusionment with the adult world are a normal part of growing up. Parents, if your kids read this book, please discuss it with them. Kids who can read this book are old enough to know adults aren't perfect, but nobody should tell them that children and teens need to make all their own decisions because they're smarter than adults, and no one should tell them that most parents are neglectful or cruel, and nobody should tell them that disobedience and disrespect is a more intelligent choice than obedience and respect. Kids who defy or ignore authority don't, in the real world, end up saving the day for the good guys; they end up in jail, unemployed, or even dead. Also, of course, kids need to know that in the real world, entries into REAL magic are dangerous, and witches and the occult world aren't innocent fun.
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Summary: The Longer the Better
Review: The longer the better is not true with all books but, for this one it is. I loved this book so much that I didn't even put it down while I was on vacation. The book helps make sense out of so many things from the first four books and also brings up more questions that will dwell on your mind until the next book. Rowling does a great job having the characters grow up. As Harry grows older her writing still does not make him seem like an eleven year old naive boy. She does a great job so that fans of Harry Potter can also grow with the book.
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Summary: Weak for Harry Potter
Review: The last of J.K. Rowling's HP Novels is the weakest. It is another adventure for Harry Potter and it is great that he is playing Quidditch again, but for Harry Potter adventure lovers, like myself, this one's weak. I expect better after the long wait we had. I hope Year 6 is more exciting.
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Summary: Less engaging than some of the others, but still good
Review: I liked this book. I felt it contributed a great deal to character development. Ron and Hermione (not to mention Ginny and Neville) developed more fleshed-out personalities, we got to understand Snape better, we found out Dumbledore is human, and, not least, we got an idea that Harry may be tempted to join the "dark side" so to speak in the next book. For all those who think Harry was too bitter in this book, imagine the burden that he is carrying from book four, where he saw a boy close to his own age die. Remember that the boy who died also happened to be Cho's boyfriend, and then imagine all the attendant guilt. Remember too that Harry is the only one to have faced Voldemort face to face so many times and the only one to have seen him come back; and yet he's out of the loop; even his friends and mentors won't tell him all that's going on. I'd be mad too; and you know, this only makes Harry a better character. He has human reactions and the tension of his inner conflict made for a great book five, and I'm sure will make for an even better book six.
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