Rating: Summary: Revalations of Harry Potter are exciting and brilliant. Review: Rowling's latest installment in the Harry Potter series is head and shoulders above the other 4 Harry Potter books. Prior to the release of this book, I wasn't to excited about the book. However, whenever I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. Rowling incorporates all of the books into this one, which makes it great and more exciting. The thing that Harry Potter fans are getting wrong is the fact that this is a continuing story, not just a bunch of books that are about each year at Hogwarts.This book is by far the best Harry Potter book that's been published yet, because i dives deeper into the minds of those who want to kill Harry. It answers old questions, but it also brings up new ones. Each new book in this series gets darker and darker as you learn the truth to the past, present, and possibly future. I can not commend J.K. Rowling enough for this book. It is truly a masterpiece. Though it is about a hundred pages longer than The Goblet of Fire, it is for good reasons. You can expect humor, satire, action, adventure, courage, hate, and love from this book. Rowling describes many situations in detail, but doesn't over describe something. Also, she never underdescribes a situation in the book either. Everything important is given the proper attention, while everything that isn't is left out of the book. The book reveals a lot about Harry's character and it's relationship with his dead father. Also, it discusses the unknown relationship that existed between James Potter (Harry's father), Professor Snape, and Harry. Rowling allows these characters to grow and shape into a new person. Even Harry's father, James (who is dead), is allowed to change his character over the course of the book. Harry's understanding of his father changes the way he looks at himself. Harry Potter fans will be delighted about this book. The reader get immersed into a different world that on the surface seems harmless and interesting. However, you learn that it is like our own, corrupt and full of evil. Although, Rowling is going to have a tough time topping this story, that's how good it is.
Rating: Summary: Come on... folks Review: this the worst book so far. It is predictible, not interesting and overall very disapointig. One of my biggest disappointment in my life I can't understand why everybody is liking this book. Come on... Rowling... you could have done a btter job with this book. Next time... don't be in a hurry to write a book... take any time you want and send the editor to the place that we all know very well. You still have two books to redeem yourself. I hope you could do it
Rating: Summary: Great! Review: Many people don't like JK. Rowlings new writing style. However I read it over and over because I liked it so much. It isn't funny but it has something else that attracts readers and the book gives a lot of information that wasn't known in the other books. If you're looking for a humor book don't get this. Get it only if you're wanting an exciting book with lots of action. I suggest that this book should be for age 7+ because it is a little violent in some parts.
Rating: Summary: 2nd best in the series! (SPOILERS) Review: It has been three long years. You are dying in anticipation. Then the day arrives. Do you rate the book based on your anticipation? I'd rather make a comparison to the other books in the series. Harry Potter for me has been dream come true. The first books in the series have kept me wanting to read more and more, and Book 5 is no exception. Here we see changes in Harry. He is leaving his childhood body and thoughts and is developing quite nicely into a surly teenager. I hated to see this change in Harry, but having been 16 once myself, I remember what it feels like to have the world against you (and literally for Harry!). We see few changes in Ron and Hermione, but perhaps that is because the story is told though Harry's eyes. The changes in Ron and Hermione have also been rather subtle since book 3; understandably, Harry has a lot more to worry about and therefore provides more opportunity for change! Rowling offers us the most brilliant villains in this novel--the best coming from the ones we are most fimilar with. Percy's betrayl of his family drove me mad the whole novel. Dumbledore's indifference toward Harry had me questioning him as a suitable leadership figure in the novel. And then there's the new lady! I won't spoil it, but she embodies all that is evil to a young child! I do not think Book 5 is held to the same standard as Book 4, but is much equivalent to Book 3. If this is confusing for you, I recommend starting over with Book 1. Okay, okay. In short, I felt this novel was a bit rushed. There were some plot lines I would have liked to see stretched more, and others toned down more. Yet, Rowling has proven again and again that will tie up all loose ends. Enjoy your reading, my friends. I can't wait for Book 6!!!
Rating: Summary: Not my Favorite, but Still Great Review: I thought this book was a great read. Yes it was very long and detailed, but I found myself actually becoming involoved in the book. This book is definitely darker than the other four books and has a more adult feel, but it makes you feel as though you are growing up with Harry. Like I said before though, this is not my favorite book in the series, but it is definitely one of the top three!!
Rating: Summary: "Harry Potter continues" Review: " Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix brings you through to another year of Harry Potter's life and brings forward new characters which add more mystery to the novel and sometimes give fuel to Harry's temper.Harry as he is now 15 has outbursts of temper and literally gets mad at almost everyone who does anything to offend him. This temper of his makes him end up getting banned from Quidditch which leaves the Gryffindor team in misery but who still end up winning as Ron finally comes through for them.He is not your teenage role model but does show the same signs of bravery, courage and his way of never giving up.Added to his new rage he is very clueless with girls and this shows out as he loses out and ends up saying all the wrong things with the girl he likes - Cho Chang. If he would just listen to Hermione on this matter. The new characters of the novel are great and fit in well with the whole ensemble of characters which Ms Rowling is always able to put together for a perfect mix .The Defense against The Dark Arts teacher - Dolores Umbridge is just out right cruel ( I thought Snape was bad ) but fits in well with the unravelling plot of the book. When I finished reading the book I felt really sorry for Harry as he is faced with the knowledge of why he was attacked as a baby and what his destiny holds for him, this is on top of losing the person who he looks up to as a father figure.At the end of the book there are so many questions that are left unanswered even though so much was reavealed to Harry. This however gives some extra suspense for the sixth book. The book over all was a good read , it might not be the best installment of the series but it lives up to the excitement and buzz. It carries on the lead of its predecessors and I will look forward for the arrival of the sixth book."
Rating: Summary: Wonderful Sleep Draught!! Tedious and Uninspired Review: A waste of time and money. Rowling must have thought she was writing a Tolstoy novel instead of a "can't put it down" thriller as in the first 4 books. Hopefully this will be rectified in the next volume.Although Harry's behavior is like that of a teenager,the book lacked cohesiveness and anything totally captivating. I am disappointed after all the hype and also after the quality of the previous books.
Rating: Summary: Great realistic view of how Harry feels Review: In the last four books Harry was saving people, risking his neck etc. Now in this book everything isn't so peachy for him, people think it is a bit odd that one boy could be involved in so many feats. I think J.K. Rowling did a very good job of portraying the type of feelings that Harry should be feeling after losing a classmate from the previous year. I really liked that we got to know the other characters that weren't in Harry's gang. This book is the best in the series when it comes to illicting feelings like rage, hate, sympathy, pain, etc. I'm sure most students can relate to Harry and the way Mrs. Umbridge treats him and the other students. As students they felt powerless to stop Mrs. Umbridge. I really felt the dislike that was simmering in all the characters regarding Mrs. Umbridge. All in all after the third book in the series this one is my second favorite.
Rating: Summary: YAWN Review: OK this book is only funny because of the twins. The girl Harry likes cries to much. Ok Ok so she dated the guy in book 4 that died but she only dated for a short time. I am sorry but you don't cry so darn much. Get over it. As far as dark is concerned? I don't see it people. He is walking down a hallway for the entire book in his dreams. So what. I walk every night to get water from my bed room maybe stub my toe, again SO WHAT. It is not dark maybe gray. As far as his Godfather dying I do not get it. Rowling said she cried and it had to be done? Why, Where and what for? I think she was pressured by her publisher to just whip something out. And it shows. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for this book because book 4 left me with the Idea there was going to be this huge WIZARD WAR. But NOOO! What do we get some witch that tries to take over the school, DUMBLEDORE is STUIPDORE, HARRY is a wiener and everyone else is CANNON FODDER. JK ROWLING get your self together and make your next book better or just hang it up now. You disappoint many others and me.
Rating: Summary: Not Up to Standard Review: After finishing this fifth book in the series, I went back and re-read a couple chapters from the first two. The contrast was striking. The earlier books were deftly written, witty and entertaining, bouncing easily from sentence to paragraph to chapter. If you've forgotten the feel, go back and read the first descriptions of Duddly and his parents. In contrast, this book is labored and long. It has the feel of a book that was far too long in the making, and where the fame of the author has inhibited the work of her editors. It plods along. There is still the hint of the earlier playfulness - as with the figures in portraits moving from frame to frame and commenting on the proceedings - but the playfulness is outweighed by the author's heavy hand moving characters from place to place and scene to scene. She might as well be stage-directing them. It was a long read and not a very entertaining or exciting one. And perhaps most telling, when you reach the last page you do not know the characters better than you did in the beginning. Harry, especially, is almost wholly lifeless in this rendition, despite having been described ad nauseum for nearly 900 pages.
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