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Summary: Mistress of Invention
Review: If I was a kid, I would idolize this book (and all the others). As it is, at 46, I am still utterly enchanted. One does not learn anything new about what good writing is from Ms. Rowling, but one certainly learns enough about fictional invention to fill a dozen Pensieves -- her imagination is dazzling and utterly unflagging in this area. Mad-Eye Moody is the most fascinating adult character since Dumbledore, the Weasley twins continue to steal scenes, and Harry's visit to the merpeople is a real gem (among many in this book). The only other thing to be said is "Harry Potter" mines and melds so many wonderful kinds of stories -- school mischief, droll humor, suspense, mystery, coming of age, Dickensian oppression by eccentric authorities -- it just goes on and on -- so that when one dimension takes a break, you can always tune in on another.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I LOVED this book. If J.K. Rowling keeps up this great writing she will always have me rushing to the stores to buy whatever she has released. I have read it several times and am still catching the intricate details she puts into her carefully laid out novel. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good read!
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Summary: I'm looking forward to the next one. Really.
Review: Too many plot holes to fall into. Too many cartoonish characters. Too many ridduculous sub plots that seem to be going nowhere. Too many mumbo-jumbo jargon. (Did anyone edit the book?)Anyway, I agree with many readers about how silly the Portkey thing was and how imposter Mad-Eye Moody could've just given Harry a portkey and get it over with. Then there are the cartoonish characters. At the end of the book, when Dumbledore and Cornelius Fudge fought I thought about just how ridduculous that was. Dumbledore is an odd name. So is Cornelius Fudge. Also, both of them are odd and funny characters. They don't seem to be ones to fight about these sort of things. The sub plots within sub plots within sub plots. Hermoine with the house elves. It went pretty much nowhere. Harry and Ron's crumbling relationship. They got all all happy-sappy later, which made the whole thing kind of worthless. Fred and George got bad grades. Their mother gets mad and then is crying for them again. The female characters seem to be doing a lot of that lately. I sort of wish that Rowling would stop trying to be realistic because it's really annoying. Mumbo-jumbo jargon. You know, Rowling, you could've saved a lot of trees from being cut down if you just used 'as if' instead of 'as though'. Sure, it's style but you have style everywhere. The detail felt artificial and tacked on. Harry's adventure with love was strange too. It felt as if Rowling had just thought: oh yeah, Harry needs a crush or something. Overall, it was still a dangerously seductive and addictive book as all Harry Potter books are so Rowling as not lost her touch. The three stars are for that. I truly hope that the fifth, sixth, and seventh aren't as dark as Rowling says they will be because that will mean more arguments between Dumbledore and Fudge to laugh at, more Harry-Ron-Hermoine relationship problems that will be rather annoying, more mumbo-jumbo jargon screaming for an editor, more horrible plot holes that will get deeper and deeper, and more cartoonish characters that will make the over-sized cast seem like an episode of Loony Tunes....
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Summary: I loved this book.
Review: This book is much more advanced in its story than book one. I would not want my 6 year old reading it but it is great for children a bit older.
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Summary: So Good, So Excellent, So Wonderful -- Words Cannot Describe
Review: Please allow me to be the 3,700 person to review Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on Amazon.com....This is a wonderful story that crosses age groups! Here are some rules for reading the Harry Potter series. 1) Read the Harry Potter series IN ORDER.
2) Realize that each Harry Potter book GETS BETTER.
3) Start reading when you can BLOCK OUT SOME TIME. You will not be able to the book down.
4) APPRECIATE J. K. Rowling (pronounced Rolling) for the masterful storyteller she is. Okay, so I know that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has been reviewed ad nauseum. I just have to add my voice to the chorus: this book is unbelievably good. I was short of breath after I raced through the last few chapters. I had to read them over again. A fabulous, wonderful finish! You feel exalted, elated, worried, and such sorrow for Harry Potter. I know I started crying! I was thinking that this book is almost too intense for young readers, you get so caught up in the story. This is a fabulous adventure story & HP & the Goblet of Fire has within it important lessons about winning, losing, & sportsmanship that will impact its readers.
This is the best of the bunch (so far)! And yet I can't wait to read how J. K. Rowling follows this up. Four Cheers and Five Stars for Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire!
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Summary: Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
Review: I liked the book because they tried somthing else for a game that was not Quiditch.It was a triwizard tornament. They had tasks to do .I liked the third task, it was through a maze and had opsticals. I also liked it because Lord Voldemort had his rebirth in the maze.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: ....Anyway, the book is wonderful, and while the book matter is harsh, it is good. I want to keep this short since I know that everyone has already listed the wonderful points of this book!
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Summary: I stayed home for a day when visiting Buenos Aires to read!
Review: This book is fantastic! It is by far the most mature of all the books. It is interesting to watch the language and writing style growup as Harry does. The characters are wonderful. I love Rowling's technique of not overdoing most of the characters dispite the fact the books are writen for children and are fantasy. Way to go, when can we have more?!?!
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Summary: J.K.Rowling becomes a WRITER with this book
Review: I've read the spanish edition of all 4 books about Harry Potter. The first one was fun because it was new, even when it was aimed to children. The second was simple, and perhaps repeating the formula. The 3rd was great ! A great ending, and a lot of surprises by the way. But in the 4th, as Harry reaches maturity, JKR also does. She is not afraid to raise issues as slavery, racism and the craving for power. Yet, this is a book for kids, but it is also a book for adults. You can learn a lot of lessons for life with it. As C.S.Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkien did before, J.K.Rowling books are growing bigger, better and more mature. I hope the best for Harry Potter, and i wish i would be able to read books about Harry Potter and his 75 birthday. In the meantime, we all will be looking for Voldemort.
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Summary: amazing!!!
Review: This book is incredibly moving, and creative. It shows all aspects of magical life and is superbly written. This book follows the life of Harry Potter in his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The story tells when Harry is suspiciously chosen by the Goblet of Fire for the Tri Wizard Tournament, and the kind of things he has to go through. Before school starts that year, Harry visits the World Quidditch Cup. After it ends, the mark of you-know-who is shown, and everyone gets scared. Also, Hermione gets a boyfriend...but who? This is a must read, or else you will regret not reading it.
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