Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5 Audio CD)

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Summary: A magical adventure!
Review: I, like so many others waited in high anticipation for the arrival of my book last Saturday and I have to say I wasn't disappointed! I couldn't put it down. The characters which J.K Rowling creates simply fly of the page straight into your imagination.
In this book we can certainly see the growth of Harry. Rowling manages to keep the character true to his age while having him experience such dramatic and unusual events. We can understand and sympathise with his frustrations.
The tone of this book, as with "The Goblet Of Fire," is distinctly dark and the ending leaves one in no doubt that the future of Harry Potter and his friends is going to be filled with danger and drama.

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Summary: Well worth the time
Review: I had Book 5 by 18h30, Saturday the 21st and read it until 6h30, Sunday the 22nd.
I believe that says a lot. Harry grows a lot, Harry is angry and frustrated and probably a bit scared and all those feelings are reflected in this book. We get a lot of novelties: a mean house elf, an absolutely obnoxious (understatement) DADA teacher, no Quidditch, bad Draco, Prefects Ron and Hermione, Gred&Forge at their best, secret societies of young and old and a whole new fan of characters, creatures and spells bound to leave you hooked! And finnaly, the DEATH. One of the most stressing and touching moments of the book...oh, and a prophecy!

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Summary: i read it in three days
Review: the newest harry potter book is without a doubt the darkest yet. it is also the longest yet. despite the length, i managed to read it in three days. i just couldn't put it down. the thing i like best about it is the fact that instead of being some sunshine and lollipops children's book, it really makes you think. in this book, harry is forced to reevaluate his opinions of many people in his life and must realise that people cannot always be easily classified as good or bad.
overall, the book is worth a look as long as you are familiar with the series.

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Summary: Absolutely fabulous
Review: I was worried at the start of this book that too many things were happening- it seemed that JK Rowling was trying to make her work exciting, and different from the rest of her series. While it was exciting, and new, the beginning of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was strikingly different from her other four books. But soon after Harry goes back to Hogwarts, the usual route she takes begins to form again. I will give no details, but this book is definently the most tragic, scay, but yet the most adapt at reaching out and touching it's audience. Harry is a new character in this book, finally one with thoughts and true feelings, and I have to say it is the best in the whole series, despite the beginning. I give it 5 stars, for I still cannot get many of the images out of my head.

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Summary: Order me a Phoenix immediately
Review: Where do you start. Well I couldn't put it down, and lost a days work over it! Harry has definitely hit his difficult teenage years, and make no bones about it he doesn't really make life easy for himself or anyone else for that matter, with constant outbursts of rage directed at anyone unfortunate enough to be in firing line. But Ron and Hermione stick by him whatever ! Oh to have friends like these. Harry, in this book is given the oppotunity of getting to know his Godfather a little better, and it's great to see the charaters are becomming quite rounded with all sorts of faults and misconceptions about one another. Action is great although I found at the climax of the story I'd been wound up to such expectation with catastrophe being the only outcome, that what ever JK Rowling wrote it couldn't have been exciting or scary enough. Running along side the on going and mounting face off with 'You know who', we see Harry with a bit of love interest, and I felt (even though this is a children's book) that Harry was definitely of the Naive Teenage type and could most cetainly do with a bit a growing over the school holdays. Overall, I loved the book, but I'm afraid I didn't cry at 'THE DEATH' of a major character, but I'm sure some of you will.

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Summary: What a joy ride!
Review: So, I pre-ordered the book months ago and started reading it as soon as I got it. I can't quite say that it was well worth the wait, but then again, I am not under fifteen, and the magic maybe a little dull because of that. Still, the book is awesome! The characters are all back and they are in the middle of their terrible teens. Harry is having the most trouble keeping his temper in check and finds himself on the wrong side of the new (and mean) Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. Ron is turning into quite a young man, school prefect and all that, while Hermoine is as always, smart, intelligent and just a little bit of a nerd. Fred and George are having a wonderful time coming up with all sorts of pills to get out of class. We find a lot about Harry's dog "snuffles" in this book; as well as what makes Dumbledore tick and the mistakes he has made. It is a joy ride and even though it isn't as good as the previous books, it really doesn't matter. I think we will miss the young Harry and be a little put off by the teenage Harry. But it is a phase all of us have to go through and we shouldn't deny Harry that opportunity.

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Summary: Worth the wait, and a re-reading
Review: This latest volume in the Harry Potter series is well written, clever, and approaches profundity. The author dives in depths only hinted at in the third and fourth books. All of the adolescent characters have matured in a believably awkward way. Harry's feud with the new Defence Against Dark Arts teacher is suggestive of the bureaucratic hubris and petty tyranny that vex us Muggles, too. She is very much the book's real villian, loathsome and power-hungry, but in a scarily mundane way. This Harry Potter, unlike the others, is complex and difficult. The protagonists are often unsympathetic, (am I the only one who keeps liking Snape more and more?) surly, and foolish. It's hard to see the sweet brave orphan of the first book in this one's insufferable teenager. The book's only disappointments are Dumbledore's post-climactic explanation of events and a certain lack of emotional depth regarding Harry's relationship with the character-who-dies. This is Order of the Phoenix's emotional zenith, however, and merits careful reading.

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Summary: Simply Astonishing
Review: This is my favorite Harry Potter book so far, though I love them all in their own ways. I have read each one many times over and can honestly say the fifth is one the saddest, at least in my own opinion. The ending left me weeping and morose, yet with an intense thirst for the sixth book. It's got a definite darkness to it that feels so necessary and real that you can't help but be moved by it. Harry also ends up making a tragic mistake, the results of which he can never get away from, and it makes him seem all the more tangible. I don't want it to come off as nothing but a depressing book, quite the contrary, as it's filled with quips, hilarious dialogue, brilliant, touching self-reflections, and great action that will have you at the edge of your seat. And nothing is quite what it seems in the extraordinary fifth installment in this wonderful series. I strongly urge anyone who hasn't started reading it to start soon! Happy reading!

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Summary: Wonderful!!
Review: I was able to get this book when I was on holiday in Germany, and from the moment that I bought it I couldn't put the book down. I won't spoil the plot for those of you who haven't read the book yet, but I applaud the author for yet another wonderfully gripping tale. I can't wait for the next book!

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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I read this book in about ten hours, straight and thought it very well written but that not enough major events happened in the book.. It was more of a filler book, a link to reveal more of harry's past and a preview of what is to come with Voldemort. I enjoyed the book but thought it wasnt the best one as long as it is, not a whole lot significant happened.