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

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Summary: Just plain amazing!
Review: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, like it's preceding fellows in the series, has become a BIG hit. With the same great magic, mystery, and suspence which J.K. Rowling has supplied to each book, combined with the many thrills, chills and spills throughout it's 700+ pages, makes it imposible to put down! You can enjoy plenty of Quittich at the Quittich World Cup, experince new dangers in the Triwizard tournament right along with Harry, meet a handfull of new characters, and of course, have yet another life threatening encounter with You-know-who. I truly believe that with "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" J.K. Rowling has once again captured the hearts of all those young, and young at heart who still remember how to wish and dream.

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Summary: Love it!
Review: This book was the coolest. J.k Rowling did a excellent job of writing it. I find this book was exciting and sad. It looks long but once you get into it you will want it to be longer. I read it is a 3 days. Thats 200 pages a day! Wheather you an old or young you will love this book.

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Summary: The BEST harry potter book ever!
Review: The cover looks great and so does the way the book is doing. It (the book)starts out withlord voldermort (tom riddle) and wormtail/pettigrew are planing voldermorts return...

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Summary: Not really fantasy
Review: Fantasy and science fiction puts people in situations that don't exist and then looks at how they react. Sometimes it is exactly the same as they would react here and now. In order to veil the morality a bit more strongly you might have some current thoughts and actions removed, only to be replaced by others with the same motivations.This book took compelling characters and put them in a setting of existing government, society, sensibilities and prejudices then renamed them. Some magic was thrown in.I enjoyed the book even though it felt like a 700 page setup for book 5. Some of that may be because Harry is older and not every issue is black and white. Darker grey can't be changed by single heroic acts.

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Summary: The best of the best
Review: I call this the best of the best because the Harry Potter series is the best series of books I've read and the fourth book, Goblet of Fire, was by far the best. This book has everything I like while reading, suspense, characters I can relate to, adventure, action, mystery, magic...etc... I am only fourteen so I can very easily relate to the characters as they grow older. (Especially Hermione-I'm a little like her). I love this book so much I have read it about a million times. Okay, only three, but close enough! If you read this book and like it, read it again and you will find points you missed the first time around, but now make sense. If you read it and don't like it, well....there's something wrong with you!

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Summary: Captivating on tape, just ask my four year old and husband
Review: My hubby has got to have them all on tape now, he is not a big reader but he is very good at listening. At this rate, he will go through this 12 tape set very quickly. Want to enjoy something with your kids on a long car ride or during play time, this is it. My children can't get enough about "Muggles".

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Summary: Nothing Special
Review: I saw this book in the school library and read it to see what all the fuss was about, and as I suspected it was nothing special. I can understand why the prospect of a boy with magical powers would appeal to young readers and the author makes the characters realistic and likeable or if it's a baddie very unlikeable. Your kept in suspence before events like the quidiche cup but when the event actually happens I find it quite boring and badly thought out. there was little thought put into how magic was done the wizards just wave their wands and say some words and the spell works and although all the magical gizmos are fun to read about it's pretty easy to think up something like the omnoculers if you can explain how they work by just saying their magical. The attempt at a twist at the end where moodys form was being used by a deatheater was very ordinary, it wasn't predictable but when a character's brought into the book made out that he's good then right at the end of the book when I found out that a deatheater was using his form I dind't feel particularily impressed. Definately nothing special.

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Summary: J. K. Rowling has done it again
Review: I have always enjoyed reading and wanted to share this joy with my 3 young children. When I first heard about Harry Potter through my mother who wanted to give the audio cassette as a Christmas gift to my 8 year-old son, I was a bit doubtful. My son had learned how to read in English and French but couldn't make the transition to novels without pictures and would only read Asterix or Tintin. The audio cassette got him hooked and soon we were both listening to it, then gradually reading as we listened and at the end he was following on his own. The following books were all read without the audio versions and he read the last in a mere week. Having read the books myself I find them very exciting and challenging in many respects: the vocabulary is varied and advanced without dragging down the story. The author uses great creativity in choosing the names of characters, sports, localities etc. The plot is very closely knit and very credible (as long as you believe in the premise of magic). The background is one most can relate to: there is a strong sense of family, values of friendship, responsibilities of school, excitement of sports... in short it is the life of most young boys with magic thrown in, not to make life easier, on the contrary. Harry battles with incredible foes and must show integrity and courage to succeed. In a way he is a hero that boys can relate to, not a strong, powerful man but a simple BOY, not particularly good-looking or cute, (he wears glasses and has unruly hair) who must go to school and learn and has his share of problems to solve as in being sometimes shunned by others or by his best friend, not suceeding in certain subjects, having a teacher hate him and all the other problems with Voldermort. These books have taught my son to enjoy reading, the greatest accomplishment of all. I have mixed emotions about a movie. Will the children simply wait for the movie version to come out instead of reading and IMAGINING the stories?

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Summary: Too much violence
Review: I think Rowling is an excellent writer in the sense that the reader is compelled to keep turning the pages. We want to know what happens next. However, I did not like the 4th book -- even though I couldn't put it down. In the 1st 3 books I thought it would be great to be part of the wizard world and be able to go off to Hogwarts to study under the famed Albus Dumbledore. After the Mad Eye Moody switch, however, I have no faith that Dumbledore actually is Dumbledore or that Hogwarts is any better than the streets of NYC. Might as well be a Muggle. Book 4 is nothing more than another Star Wars story with Harry Potter as Luke Skywalker and Voldmort as Darth Vader. I liked Harry Potter originally because I wanted to enter into a world of magic. In the 4th book I found myself reading a crime story and it filled my head up with children dying and adults tricking and abusing children. It reaffirmed for me that it is better not to trust anyone. Certainly not the adults that are "pretending" to be your protector. What will happen next? Will Hermione turn out to be Voldmort's assistant or does she die some horrible death as well. No more Harry Potter for me. I can just watch television to get that kind of violence.

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Summary: the best book in the world (so far).
Review: The 4th harry potter book was the best by far i think. it was so hard to put it down it only took me 2 days to finish . i read from the time in got the book to the time i finished it that included podie brakes and meals. it was really good. im glad we baught it that way i can read it almost whenever i want. my brother wants toread it to. it was totaly awsam but itstunk that someone had to die well to bad i cant wait for the 5th one