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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4 Audio CD)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4 Audio CD)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It just keeps getting better
Review: Each book in the Harry Potter series seems to be an improvement over the one before it. I've liked all of the books, but this one is my favorite so far. It starts out in the Riddle house, a change from the beginning of the first 3 books, which seems to signal that this book is darker than the others. From there we learn that Harry has been invited to the Quidditch World Cup with the Weasleys, which provides for comic relief as the wizards try to act like muggles. The plot moves fairly slowly throughout the book, but continues to flow nicely. The only places it seems to stumble are with Hermione's battle to free the house elves (I still don't really see the point behind that plotline) and the lengthy fight between Ron and Harry. The ending felt rushed in some places, but also seemed to take forever. All in all though, this book is definitely worth your time to read- no matter what your age. I just hope the 5th one comes out soon.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I got eyeball prints on my daughter's copy
Review: Okay, I admit I bought the book for my daughter. But you know what they say you should always try to keep up with what your kids are into. Well.. it sounds like a good excuse anyway. I finished it the first day after it came! Personally I think this one is the best so far. (I had to check the others out - too).

First off, be aware this is a hefty one. Over 700 pages. It reads very quickly and is full of not only great action, but more cerebral action as well. We find out a bit more about some of the standard characters - Hagrid's background for example. We also learn more of the wizarding community in general. And of the schools and their methods specifically (in more ways than one)

Rowling is doing a great job of developing the characters as the books go on. Harry and Ron are growing up some. They're even sort of beginning to notice girls. My only critique is that Harry never seems to be in the wrong nor does he lose. As she is making other characters more and more realistic, Harry seems to be becoming less and less so. She still keeps a fair balance of his insecurity there, but he is becoming somewhat over confident and more than a little spoiled. (I'm sure Snape would be more snide about it, but he essentially is beginning to sound correct sometimes.)

Incidentally, after I "checked it out" for my daughter, she also sat down and read it stopping only when we forced her to eat, sleep, play. She has since read it 2 more times. So if nothing else I would recommend this book on the basis that if it can hold a 7 year old's attention like that in spite of it's size and my criticisms, Rowling is obviously doing something right.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome reading for all ages
Review: When you think that the 3rd book is the best of Harry Potter, think again. The Goblet of Fire, is MUCH better. J.K Rowling has mistify me with this book and kept me reading this whole book whole night through.

Again, in this 4th book, when you think that you know what will happen next, think again. Again J.K Rowling has provide us a great ending which is very hard if not impossible to guess, but still make a whole lot of sense and make it very very interesting. It gives me a sigh of pleasure and a smile after finishing it.

J.K Rowling has made a great move by doing a triwizard tournament in this 4th book, avoiding another quidditch tournament that would appear to be redundant. Also the introduction to other magical school around the globe has given this book another spark and open up a whole big possibilities of what will be coming up next in the 5th Harry Potter.

This book has also give more personal touch to some of the main characters which was lacking in the 3 previous books. It is very lovely of how the book pictures Hermyone, Ron, Fred, George, Percy, Longbottom, and several other in more vivid way. It also gives a better portrayal of the You-Know-Who and his followers.

Can't wait for the 5th Book and hope it is at least as good as this one.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: great book, not the best
Review: i read this book the longest time ago, and i'm bored right now, so i decided to write this review. Anyway, i thought this was another great installment in the series. Sadly, it was the weakest. The book as a whole was good, but the beginning was boring. It seemed to me like rowling was just writing filler for the book to look bigger and longer. The ending however, was gripping and held me onto the book. If it weren't for the ending, this would have been a complete disappointment, instead of the minor one it turned out to be.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Harry potter and the overhyped book.
Review: Reasons why I didn't like this book as much as the others 1. It could have been about 400 pages, but so many unnecessary subplots and repetitions required about three hundred pages. 2. The whole "a character will die" thing turned out to be a major disappointment.First of all revealing the death of a character in order to hype up the book wasn't fair to the readers. It took the surprise away. But there wasn't any surprise because I new Rolling wouldn't have the guts to kill of an important character. 3.Voldemort is like your typical bad guy. Just plain old bad. He plots to kill Harry in most difficult way and as always is foiled. I wish Rolling had killed him off in the second or third book and introduced new villians.Also the plot is getting too childish for me. I ask myself questions like " shouldn't magic people be ignorent if all they know is magic?" all the time. 4. My final complaint is that shouldn't Harry be disturbed if his Aunt and uncle always treated him like that? something to think about.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: harry 4 was a 4
Review: I thought that Harry POTTER 4 pretty good but J.K. Rowling dragged it out a little.It's not that I don't like detail but I do not like being bored. I did like the characters.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: a guilty pleasure!!
Review: embarrassing as it may be for a person my age (14) to say, this is a good book!! actually, much to the annoyance of my parents, i usually pick up books such as the sweet valley series, or love stories, or making out. but this was so hyped up that i was kind of curious about it, so i bought it and stashed it at the back of my closet until a couple days ago. this book rocks!! it's funny, it has action, everything!! it's even got some romance (hee hee). cho chang should so get with harry!! *lol* my dad rolled his eyes when i said this out loud while reading the book in the living room!! anyway, this book is REALLY great, and it totally lives up to the hype. get it!! (even if you're forced to hide it when your friends come over!)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A very enjoyable read!
Review: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is one of the most enjoyable books I have read in a long time. The story becomes so in depth, much like the previous books, that you connect with the characters. Harry is the type of person that will always make the right decision in any situation and for this I admire him. His friends are as much enjoyable in the story as him. With each decision Harry makes, his friends play a vital role and this is the reason I enjoyed this book so much. Because there is not just one hero throughout the book. The book does not follow the story of just one person. Harry's friends are included in almost every situation which makes the story a very enjoyable read!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Harry Potter's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
Review: After three books you couldn't help noticing a pretty rigid plot formula in the Harry Potter books: Harry starts out in Privet Drive, goes to Hogwarts, singlehandedly wins a vital Quidditch match, encounters either a mysterious but seemingly friendly character who turns out (a) to have an anagram for a name and (b) be in the service of Voldemort, but eventually manages to save the day, without completely squashing you-know-who.

The good news is that while not abandoning her idiom, in The Goblet of Fire JK Rowling has allowed herself to drift loose of these moorings and evolve Harry's world: the wizarding universe is significantly different at the end of this book than it was at the beginning. You couldn't say that about the first three.

With each book Rowling has developed her literary aspirations: the Goblet of Fire is pretty baroque compared to the roughly-hewn Philosopher's Stone. I think she manages to stay the right side of the self-indulgence line, though: it remains to be seen whether Rowling can resist the temptation to stray over it next time round.

Rowling's instinctive gift for storytelling is generally absorbing but is by no means perfect: at the end there is some fairly ham-fisted dialogue that exists only for plot exposition. While she isn't the first writer to lean on this particular shovel (Conan-Doyle's Dr Watson character existed almost exclusively to allow Sherlock Holmes to explain parts of the plot Conan-Doyle couldn't be bothered setting out properly) this doesn't mean it isn't a flaw. Ultimately Harry Potter is a wonderful creation, and such sales are an achievement which cannot be explained away as a product of canny marketing or sheer fluke. But this early on, nor can you properly gauge how Harry stacks up against Bilbo Baggins or Aslan the Lion. To my way of looking at it, that's the real test.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: a long wait to the end
Review: i had been avoiding dear old Harry Potter till a week ago. Then I picked up the first book (you know, begin at the beginning), and have read the four books almost back to back. First was enchanting, second was boring, third picked up magic again, and the fourth just splatters it all over the place like a big, gory picture. Sure it's darker, sure there's death and mayhem and all kinds of dark arts, but 700 pages before you come to the the duel that fizzes in comparison to the earlier endings.

Everything is overdone in this book, stretched to the extent that it leaves you tired and yet dissatsified. I am reminded of a dialog somewhere... the author had too much material and never made any choices, just threw everything in. The result? It's huge, mostly not-funny (Ron Weasly is almost not present with his wisecracks for a good part of the book), and doesn't leave a happy feeling at the end, despite your effort to stick with the 700 odd pages.

I think the next book should just have footnotes for references to earlier occurences. To read pages about how quidditch and history of Dursleys and so on gets irritating sometimes.


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