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Summary: Becoming Darker
Review: I liked this Harry Potter book because it lets a character that you get to know well be killed. I think this makes the book much better because you are not happy in magic land the whole time. I can't wait for the next book to come out. I hear it is supposed to be even darker.
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Summary: Poof...just like that I'm addicted to Rowling
Review: I'm 32 years old and originally bought these books for my infant son, thinking (with all the hype going on) this might be cute to read to him at night. We started with one chapter a night, but after the first two nights I couldn't wait any longer and read it all the way through. Then I got my husband to read them. We loved it and were hooked! J.K. Rowling has a wonderful writing style that both children and adults can enjoy. The children characters are easy to relate with at any age. A great book for parents and children to enjoy TOGETHER!
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Summary: Exciting and wonderful book!
Review: Harrry Potter 4 is a great and exciting book. It is full of adventure and packed with excitement. It has a great ending and cliff hangers at the end of every chapter. I would recommentd this book to all ages if you like fantasty.
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Summary: Such a great book!
Review: This is such a great book, so I've read it six times! Harry goes back to Hogwarts, a witch and wizard school. When he goes back, his favorite thing to do is cancelled! But another thing is coming up, the Twizard Tournament. Harry's name is drawn, but he's underage and he doesnt know how his name got into the Goblet of Fire. So who did it?? If you want to find out, get reading!!
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Summary: Running out of imagination
Review: As is the case for all great beginnings, the sequels tend to to become weaker. It's natural, because the later versions are built upon the original foundation. A version up, certainly, but never a complete change that awes the readers. First, goblet of fire doesn't play much role in the book, not a likely candidate for becoming the title of the book. Second, much of the ideas of Rowling's are now becoming repetitive, and new ones are certainly not the magnitude of the previous volumes.Third, the format of the book has become so familiar that you can almost feel what's going to appear next. Fourth, a great detective-like story should give readers chance and a rational guidance to solving the clue. Rowling never gives readers such opportunities. The result of the book might be surprising, but lacks the rational flow as to why Triwizard Tournament was necessary, why goblet of fire is such an object of fuss, why Cedric should die, and why Voldemort should go through such ordeal to relive again. But most important of all is with Harry himself. An ordinary boy as he is, he is nevertheless never given any special power or special skill that will necessitate him to become a powerful wizard in many sequels to come. And even if he were given such power afterward, it would certainly look awkward. In a word, Harry is becoming rather boring.
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Summary: Just imagine...
Review: Imagine, being four years old, all ready to go to sleep, and your mother (or father) comes in to read you a goodnight story. As you get older, she (or he) stops, because ou can read by yourself, but you still miss them coming in every night to read you your favorite stories. Even now that you are all grown up, you miss it. Now, you can have the Harry Potter books read to you. Remember how you would say to dear mummy "READ MORE!" and she would tell you her voice was getting tired? You won't hear such claims from the tape! Harry Potter book 4 has the same wonderous impact on you when listening to it! Jim Dale's wonderfully British voice, his wonderful Hermione, fading out at the end of sentences, his delightful interpretations of the songs, it will be like Dad coming into read to you again. The Sorting hat seems alive when Hearing "a thousand years or so ago...etc."
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Summary: Waiting for number five
Review: I think Harry Potter is a great series. Also, that people all over the world and of all ages should read this book because it is fun and exciting. My favorite part of this book was when Dobby gave Harry the gilly weed for the third task. I wish I was part of this book. Sometimes when I read I feel like I am in the book. I can barely wait for the fifth book to be released.
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Summary: Can't wait for #5
Review: As an 8th grade English teacher, I enjoy reading children's literature; often I find it's better than what's out there for people my own age! I have found all of the Harry Potter books absorbing; I kept reading well into the night just to see what happened next. I am writing this review to demonstrate to my students how they can write their own online book reviews. I think it's a great real-life publishing opportunity.
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Summary: Turning points
Review: Yup-this book was a turning point in the ever-popular Harry Potter series. A darker turn, adding shades to everything we thought we already knew about Harry's world, but neither too dark nor too convoluted. In my view, it remained refreshingly innocent for a story about young teenagers. I'll admit that I thought the first hundred or two hundred pages of the book were slow...but watch out world! Ms. Rowlings strikes again with new characters that become as fascinating and as hysterical, as the old ones. Bartie Crouch, the Ministry wizard with a fatal soft spot nobody would have suspected. Bertha Jorkins, a missing Ministry witch with a passion for gossip that could be the key to Voldemort's return. Mad-Eye Moody, the battered new DADA instructor who isn't afraid to bend the rules... and knows all too much about the Dark powers that want Harry dead. Cedric Diggory, the Headboy with a talent for beating Harry to what he wants most. Rita Skeeter, the journalist with a flare for the worst kind of tabloid journalism and ways of getting her scoop on Harry. The old characters, too, take on new interest as Voldemort's past Reign of Terror begins more and more to affect Harry's present and polarize loyalties. Why does hapless Neville Longbottom know so much about curses? What is the deeper, darker secret Hagrid has been hiding all this time? Is there a sinister past behind the intense scrutiny Moody is giving Professor Snape? What are Fred and George Weasley up to now, and why does it involve blackmail? Who were Voldemort's Death Eaters, and why did they make an appearance at the Quidditch World Cup? And who is trying to force them out of hiding after so many years? Yes, Harry has his plate very full his fourth year at Hogwarts. As if it isn't enough that an all-too-realistic dream of a much stronger Lord Voldemort has Harry writing his godfather Sirius for advice, Harry is illegally and unwittingly entered as a contestant in the TriWizard Tournament-an international competition between rival schools that has an perilously high rate of past fatalities. Even the benevolent Hogwarts Headmaster, professor Dumbledore, may not be able to protect Harry this time, for an inside enemy has tricked the Goblet of Fire into selecting Harry as a fourth TriWizard champion. But Voldemort and his henchmen are plotting more than merely Harry's death... The emotional entanglements of the year add new-and pleasantly surprising-layers of complexity to Harry's perspective. Harry's friendship with Ron is strained by jealousy. Harry, Ron, and Hermione begin to discover the dating scene and the joys and pitfalls of dealing with the opposite sex. (The bickering between Ron and Hermione is delicious and certainly convinces me that there's more than a little mutual interest there.) Harry, Hermione, and others (in a telling twist) are pestered by a reporter who ruins more reputations before lunchtime than most people tarnish in years. Harry begins to learn the importance of second chances and trust as his path, and that of everyone around him, becomes more and more enmeshed in the web of stories behind the people around him. Most of all, past and present collide as Voldemort is reborn and the deaths and terror begin again... And Harry will never be the same.
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Summary: All I can say is... Great
Review: The Book's great. Period. You don't like it, that's your problem, but as far as I'm concerned it's the best of the best- I can see that Rowling's great, and I hope she starts a new series after the HP Books are done. It's inspired me to write my own stories.
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