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Summary: triumph for anyone with a soul
Review: While this book has certainly gotten more than it's fair share of reviews - I needed to add mine. I've read all the Harry Potter books and I loved number four. I brought the book with where ever I went and I have never been stopped by so many strangers on the street to be asked about a book. It seems as tho everyone wanted to know how the book was and if I had read the previous three. I told everyone that still has an inner child to run out and buy this book (as well as the first three). JK Rowling seems to be getting better with age and experience as does Harry. She has really spread her wings in this installment of the Harry Potter series. While the book begins exactly the same as the past three books - with Harry stuck at the Dursley's for the summer and his friends the Weasley's must rescue him so that he can go to the Quidditch world cup finals - readers will be happily pleased with the rest of the book. But this is where the similarities stop and the real imagination begins. Without saying too much - this novel is (obviously) longer than the previous three and while most people were stunned at the start of the book - I think I can safely say no one wanted it to end. I would have been happy with another hundred pages. Things turn for Harry in number four - as he reaches adolescences he has to deal with all the ups and downs it brings with it, a first crush and a painful loss as well as taunting and trying to discover who he really is. This once again a triumph for readers of all ages. So sit down and enjoy the ride.
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Summary: Superb!
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book. J.K Rowling never disappoints readers. I finished reading it in three days. The story was fascinating and every page was full of humors and surprises.This book is a combination of suspense, humor, action and teenage romance.I especially liked the chapters THE GOBLET OF FIRE and THE YULE BALL. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a result of J.K.Rowling's solid work and effort. The best children's book of the millenium!
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Summary: Questions Unanswered
Review: This latest Harry Potter book was everything I expected it to be. Harry matures through the story as does the content. The book gets darker and darker as Harry's troubles become closer. It has an excellent sense of mystery and keeps you guessing about several issues all at once. This time Harry's problems come to him, instead of his trouble making habits coming out. Don't get me wrong he's as daring as ever, but he's forced into situations by someone elses doings. The end of the book left me with so many unanswered questions. I'm thirsting for more and I can't wait until the 5th year.
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Summary: super cool
Review: This book is ultra cool. Its reallyu scary and suspnseful. I was really fun when Harry had to saveeveryone and had to preform all these different task. My mom reads me a chapter every night, but soon I snunk up and got the book and read it forever until three hores later, then I fell asleep. Its just really cool!
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Summary: greetings from Northumberland
Review: Is everyone who reviewed this book from USA? Harry Potter is a British boy and the books are wonderfully UK! We (my family) love all 4 and my younger kids sit enthralled as I read the latest one out. I love doing the voices for Malfoy and Hagrid and Aunt Petunia and the rest. These books are so wonderfully inventive and yet reflect life too. Just read the chapters where Ron and Harry are trying to arrange dates for the Yule Ball - JK gets the adolescent thing so exactly right - these are my favourite chapters.Full marks to Hermione! And full marks to JK Rowling for superb writing and great suspense and fun.
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Summary: Excellent, more mystery, more poignant, more picturesque
Review: Again another great one from Ms. Rowling. Every day of the wait between the third part and the recent one was worth it. Although, this one is much bigger, and much more dark than any of the previous ones, I loved almost every bit of it. Unlike the other three, this time I was completely clueless, until the very end as to who the collaborator of the dark lord was. The other three were also extremely suspenseful, and quite surprising at the end, I happened to guess either correctly or in the ball park.) The death and the encounter of Voldemort with the protagonist has made the story more edgy, more suspenseful, and the encounter of Harry with his victimized parents due to reverse spell, made it a very subtle and poignant moment. The imagery, the story telling, innovatively imaginative ideas of portkey, WWN, and gillyweed, and more made the whole plot even more interesting, and full of surprises. Also the internationalization of the wizarding world, the subtle but clear insinuations to the over enthusiatic press in our regular world through the character of Rita Skeeter, rendered an extra dimension to this series. All in all, we all know that this book is making history in the publishing world. I must say that with the turn of events at the end of this current volume, the progression will be even more interesting, vivid, and the eternal struggle between good and evil will be played out in a more direct manner. Also a point to note, this series, has another underlying lesson, "different does not mean evil, there are goods and evils in types and kinds". Again congratulations to the author for keeping it up to her previous successes.
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Summary: The best yet!
Review: I think that this was the best book so far!I was hooked from the riddle house ,to the first task, to flesh, blood and bone. It's a wonderful book, despite the swearing.It's a must if you have read any of the others. It's a very unexpected ending, and I won't say any more, you will just have to read it for your self. I can't wait ofor the fifth book.
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Summary: The Dark Lord's Return
Review: In this book I liked about how so many people get out of jail, and somebody who wasn't a death eater was in contact with a death eater! By the way, a death eater is a person that is a servent of the dark lord, or used to be a servant of the dark lord. I just finished the book, and let's just say, it's really a good book! Marc L., age 8
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Summary: A few swear words arn't going to ruin your child.
Review: By the time you child is 11, 'damn' will be commen language inschool, even if your child isn't using it. By thirteen, your childwill know terrible words! Even a SEVEN year old will love the book so much they wont even notice 'damn' is there! I am a kid and I didn't even know Harry Potter HAD swearing in it until I read someone's review warning people! Your child simply cannot have bad words marked out and replaced it's in A BOOK. Even if your child is shocked they wont mention it because they are embaressed! Besides the forth Harry Potter is pretty strong for seven year olds anyway, they shouldn't be reading it. Also, putting a few 'damns' in makes the story seem more beleivable. The day I see a class of fourteen year olds using just 'damn' I will be speaking a different language.
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Summary: An Embarrased Parent
Review: My father bought my son the 1st Harry Potter book for Christmas because of the hype. I bought him 2-4 because we're hooked. Together my 9 yr. old and I read the books after homework is done. (I'm proud to say that they have surpassed Pokemon in the "thing I have to hear about for hours on end" category.) I am delighted to see my son's attachment to the characters. We discuss everything about the book in great detail, including the Dursley's poor treatment of Harry and what we might do with an invisibility cloak! The characters have enough dimension to them to keep you hanging on every word and J.K. Rowling is to be commended on her gift of imagery and her ability to communicate real emotion and human (er, muggle) behavior. In fact, I'm embarrased to say that while suffering from insomnia the other night, I wanted to read the end of the chapter my son and I were on and before I knew it, I'd finished the book!
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