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Summary: Getting dark, but deep
Review: The Potter series are seeming less whimsical and much darker. I think I'm going to skip book 4. I'm not sure whether I can handle it.Nevertheless, on one level, this is my favorite Potter book. People aren't what they seem, and the end of this book presents the potential for something Harry has longed for -- a parental relationship.
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Summary: This book was superb!
Review: The Prisoner of Azbakan was incredible! My sister and I fought over who got to read it first. After the first two I thought that this might be a bit of a letdown, but Ms. Rowling did it again. The characters are incredibly realistic and the situations, though magical, seem like they could really happen. Don't be mislead by the age recomendations, a great find for any one
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Summary: The book may look dumb, but read it anyway!
Review: The Prisoner of Azkaban is a real twist. I read the book in almost a day and a half. I thought all the Harry Potter books looked like a new trend everyone was into, but then I gave In and I cant stop reading them! Like in most stories there is a hero(Harry), an enimie(Draco), and a sidekick(Ron), but Rowling makes it so you don't really notice that. In the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry says shut up to Snape . I think that is kind of of unreal but funny.I like how she made names for that gang of four(Sirius,James,etc.)and how they related to something they turned into. Everybody says the fouth book will be the best because they think or herd on Tv someone's going to die, Hermione's going to like someone, and Harry will like Chang, but I think the third one will still be the best in my opinion. I give Rowling three cheers for doing such a fabulous job on her first series!
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Summary: Just a few things....
Review: The Prisoner of Azkaban is a very good read, unique in the way that you get "caught up" in the suspense, fear, and laughter. I was very suprised when adults started gathering others together to stop the books from opening in circulation. As far as I can see, there is no harm in the Harry Potter series. I think adults need to realize that their children are not complete idiots, and that they can tell the differences between books and real life. I also see nothing wrong with this book in the way of religion reasonings. I do not believe this book goes against church teachings. I am 12 years old, and I wasn't sure about the books from looks alone. I thought I might be too old for them from what I heard before, but I've found they appeal to all ages, even my mom reads them! I've heard a lot of predictions about the 4th book to come out. I've heard that someone close to Harry is going to die. Whatever the truth, I trust the 4th book will be of good content, along with the other books to come.
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Summary: The Harry Potter series is magic.
Review: The Prisoner of Azkaban is full of twists and turns that are meaningful to the story. This book will leave you greatly anticipating the next in the series.I have recommended these books to everyone I know--with and without children. As a teacher, it's encouraging to see kids brighten over books as well-written as these. Bravo to J.K. Rowling for creating what will soon be considered classic children's literature. I loved it!
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Summary: J.K. Rowling delivers an elegantly woven plot !
Review: The Prisoner of Azkaban is the best HP book yet. It delivers all the thrills of Chamber but a huge blow of discovery. We go deeper into Harry's past. J.K. also throws in a lot of horror and talk, two things little kids (HA!HA! Go back and read Arthur!) will not enjoy. The story is filled with subplots that come into play in the end. Harry also falls in love for the first time (little children will not enjoy the pangs of adolescense but I sure did!) with Co Chang. J.K. Rowling has delivered yet another masterpiece
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Summary: It just keeps getting better and better
Review: The Prisoner of Azkaban is the greatest and most suprising Harry Potter book so far! I couldn't put it down, i would stay up until 3 in the morning reading it. J.K. Rowling has really out-done herself with this shocking book! And when i say shocking i mean shocking. Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban Prison and is after Harry, but why? I don't want to say to much but this is the best in my opinion! I give it 5 stars, but it deserves 10.
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Summary: I AM SPELLBOUND BY THE MAGIC OF THIS BOOK!
Review: The Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book in the Harry Potter series and another winner for the genius J. K. Rowling. The continuation of the escapades of Harry and his best friends Ron and Hermione keep the reader obsessed with finishing another great read.
Harry spends another horrid summer at the Dursleys and agrees to "act normal" during the visit of the beastly Aunt Marge (in order to receive a signature on a pass to Hogsmeade). Harry does fine until Aunt Marge severely criticizes his parents. As seen in all three books, Harry cannot hold his temper where his parents are concerned. He blows up Marge and runs away in fear of retribution from both the Dursleys and Hogwarts. Thus, the adventures begin! I really don't like to tell too much about the book in my reviews because I believe it spoils the plot for the reader. Just trust me when I say that this book is another fabulous classic. I am very stingy when it comes to giving a book 5 stars. I do this only if I want to read the book again and again. I am an adult who admits to reading this series three times and who is truly looking forward to the 5th book!
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Summary: Harry Potter gets complicated
Review: The Prisoner of Azkaban maintains the high standards we've come to expect from J. K. Rowling. However, the plot is deeper and more complicated than in the previous books, reflecting the fact that Harry Potter and his friends are growing up and we learn more about Harry Potter's past with each novel. There is a risk that this complexity might threaten the pace of the story -- even for this adult reader, the extended denouement was quite hard to follow. The knockabout Just-William schoolboy adventures and Roald-Dahl-inspired kids' comedy are giving ground to much darker themes reminiscent of Tolkien. For example, the hideous 'Dementors' of Azkaban are carbon-copy ringraiths from Lord of the Rings. It will be interesting to see how Rowling handles these complexities in the succeeding books (four more are promised.) Like all good childrens' books, the Potter novels engage adults, too -- by the end of the series, Potter will be an adult, completing a seamless transition, over the seven books, from childhood fantasy to a profound rites-of-passage saga in which the magical elements throw the problems of ordinary adulthood into sharp relief. I look forward to seeing how the story goes -- and how it ends.
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Summary: I am not a Muggle, I am a free Wizard!
Review: The Prisoner of Azkaban starts off in quite the same way as The Chamber of Secrets with Harry's birthday. Harry is 13, and like Kevin the teenager, he seems to have transfigured into something quite unruly overnight. Harry Potter has become an adolescent, with all its incipient furies and lustiness (see his reaction to meeting Cho Chang for the first time!). It's the summer, so Harry has been imprisoned with the Dursleys once more. If there's one thing worse than the Dursleys, it's Harry's Aunt Madge. It's not long before Aunt Madge is blown into a bigger balloon than Violet in Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. Harry escapes, sure that the Ministry of Magic will be on to him in no time, and that he will be expelled from Hogwarts. He's picked up by the Knight Bus, and deposited at the Leaky Cauldron, where Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, is waiting for him. But instead of admonishing Harry, Fudge makes sure that he gets everything he needs, and waves his misdemeanours away. This is the first sign Harry has that something is very wrong. Still, the only obstacle Harry has to overcome is the biting book that Hagrid has sent him for his birthday. It's not long before Harry's meeting Ron and Hermione in Diagon Alley. Unfortunately, Hermione chooses to buy herself a cat as an early birthday present, and inevitably, Ron and Hermione bicker as the cat, Crookshanks, sets about hunting Ron's pet rat, Scabbers. All Harry has eyes for is the Firebolt: the most sophisticated broomstick ever produced. The Wealseys seem somewhat overprotective of Harry, and then Harry finds out why: Sirius Black is out to murder him. Sirius Black is considered to be so dangerous that Fudge has even alerted the Muggle Prime Minister, and the Ministry of Magic has provided the Weasleys with a fleet of cars to transport them to King's Cross. Sirius Black, Voldemort's faithful servant, killed thirteen people before he was apprehended, including one wizard... Whilst on the Hogwarts Express, Harry and friends encounter the dishevelled Professor Lupin, their new teacher of Defence against the Dark Arts. They also have a visitation from a Dementor, one of the sinister Azkaban guards (the wizard prison we learnt about in The Chamber of Secrets). Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban, which no one else has ever done before, so the fear is that he may well try to break into Hogwarts. The Dementors, however, seem far more interested in Harry than looking for Black. Harry fervently hopes that Gryffindor will win the Quidditch Cup, but then the Dementors attack him during a game. Harry hears his mother's dying words in a dream, and believes he may have even seen his father... But what is that mysterious dog that is stalking him? Will he really die, as Professor Trelawney believes? And why is Hermione appearing and disappearing, and acting so strangely? Dumbledore's choice of teachers seems suspect when a Hippogriff attacks Malfoy in Hagrid's first lesson. However, Harry seems to have found an ally against the Dementors in the form of Professor Lupin. But the post of Defence against Dark Arts is not one to be taken lightly... There are the usual encounters with the sinister Professor Snape, and we learn a bit more about his background (surely Alan Rickman's too old to play him?). Rowling seems to have been delving into Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable again, with her depiction of Salamanders as fire lovers. Perhaps she's been also reading some Susan Cooper, as a Boggart makes a handy plot device. The plot itself is as tight as usual, with the Prisoner of Azkaban being the most thrilling and disturbing in the series so far.
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