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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: 4 stars
Summary: The never want to stop reading book
Review: First of all I would like to mention this that Harry Potter 4 is so interesting,each minute waiting for the next part is torturing me like the Crusiatus curse(a curse that put on some one which is no different to skinning the body).

First of all, to get a head long start I would like to introduce myself.
Name= Asif
You can call me= Asif The Great
City=Dubai

This is my first review and I hope it goes good.
Harry Potter 4 consists of 796 pages.It is ten times better than Harry Potter 3 and has a very interest twist I tell you!I can't tell you the story can I? So let me torture your brain as I was tortured.Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuttttttt,,,,, this is my first review so I will put you a drop of water to cool your brain down which is being tortured right now to hear the revie, isn't it????Here goes....... but I just want to tell you I will give you better information than the rest of the other reviewers all the time so keep reading my reviews the most!

Harry Potter always starts his story by the Dursleys but this time in a nightmare which later on in the story turns out to be true.Later on, he will be playing something more dangerous and full of suprises than of playing Quidditch in which he wishes it to be over as soon as possible .This game is one of the things that will keep you so interested in the book that will give the enimeys time to plot against you to bring Voldermot back to power and you wont even know when it happened and who plotted against you.One more step of torturing your brain for buying the book.

Let me tell you this that there even is an interviewer called, RITA SKEETER that will write false information about you and your dear friends and some that truthfully horriffying that one never mentions about it to anyone.All the time that you keep guessing how she finds those information even though she is not allowed to visit Hogwarts.But here's a hint anyway:
Something that always appears whenever those informations are told out in private or shown.

But the bad part which I didn't like and decided to give it four out offive were DIVINATION CLASSES(It's so boring!!!).

And finally I would like to inform you that this book is so funny and so scary that you should read it if you want to understand completely what I mean and if you want to feel it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Harry Potter at its best
Review: I've read 3 books of Harry Potter; Philisopher's Stone, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of fire. After reading one book after another, I never thought something more wonderful was coming. Goblet of fire, is the best so far. Lots of new characters, new stories, new adventures, and most especially new twists, including test on friendship. It's a great read, indeed, same goes with its author. Jk Rowling is one of the best.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Harry Potter series
Review: JK Rowling has done herself proud. She has created a wonderful world full of magic and imagination for children and adults alike. I especially love the way the books can create a bridge between generations. My teenagers have a wonderful time contemplating what might occur in subsequent books: will Harry fall in love with Cho Chang or Ginny? will Ron and Hermione become a couple? Is Draco really as evil as he seems? We can hardly wait until Book 5. These are fun books. They are not evil.
I grew up with "Bewitched" and "I dream of Jeannie" and I did not become a pagan, godless person. I can, however, remember thinking that cleaning my room would be a great deal easier if I could just twitch my nose. Enjoy these books and love them for what they are: a fantastical escape to a magical world.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The critics can stop now
Review: I should preface this by letting you know that I am a 25-year-old literary snob...or at least I was. I was one of those people who turned their nose up at any book that wasn't so dense and complicated that it required, well, a degree in English Literature to understand it. I suppose there are reasons to be elitist, but as I grow older it's hard to remember what they are.

Now I value a work of art for different reasons, and the Harry Potter series is one of the sources for this change. I ignored Harry Potter all during my undergraduate days and scoffed with mirth at other adults who read the books. I was too busy with Faulkner and Flaubert to stoop. A lot changed between now and then, mostly me, and I was convinced to see the first film. It was quite good. I didn't understand why egg-headed critics bashed it. Then I saw the second film and also enjoyed that. A review on Salon.com pointed out that the joy and magic of the books was lost in the way the films paid painful homage to every detail without really enlivening the underlying text. This convinced me I needed to read the books.

I began the first book after Thanksgiving, having just completed the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. That book is nearly as magical as this one, even though it is for "adults" and won the Pulitzer prize in 2001. The same aspects that filled me with wonder in Kavalier and Clay are in Harry Potter.

About this time last year, I read another epic British fantasy series, the Lord of the Rings. While the two sets of stories are not exactly comparable, one being a true epic of one giant tale and another an episodic set of annual tales, they do share many things in common. They each deal with worlds where a wide range of creatures are threatened by a malevolent presence. In each, the evil presence is far away, yet always lurking. There is what seems to be a clear delineation between good and evil, which upon further examination is not so clear at all. Each tale relies on a small and seemingly common character who somehow, through grit and courage, overcomes enormous odds.

The key difference is that in Lord of the Rings, there is never a moment where the Dark Lord is any more material than the ring that represents him. For much of this series, Voldemort is the same. But he is somehow more tangible, less representative of an idea, more human.

Overall the Harry Potter series is an instructional set of tales that uses a fictional world of wizards to explore the difficulties faced by us in the muggle world. Ultimately the magical people in Harry Potter are challenged by the same conflicts that affect muggles: discrimination, slavery, pragmatism vs. absolutist virtue, friend vs. foe, the true nature of good and the true nature of evil. Those who wish to draw clear lines in the world between right and wrong will not find such a world in the Harry Potter series. That's why it's disappointing when critics bash these books. They are far more substantive than a Michael Chrichton or Mary Higgins Clark novel, and they engage young readers with topics of importance to us all. That's why I suggest critics lay off and let their hair down to enjoy a wonderful set of books (hopefully with many more wonderful ones to come).

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I Love These Books
Review: I have read these books over and over again they are the best books i have ever read and they are really what got me hooked on reading. I used to never read and then when harry potter came out my mom showed it to me and had me read it i loved the book so much that i read all of them i have read the 4th one like 6 times i think by now! Keep up the great work JK! And thankyou for opening a whole new world for me! I am very greatful.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Goblet of Fire and The Chamber of Secrets, Just can't choose
Review: I love every single HP book, but this one is a real page turner. Just as good as The Chamber of Secrets. I can't Decide which is better. Lets see I guess that These books are just too good for words.
See ya!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: 1,000,000 stars!...
Review: I would list negative things first usually, but this book is entirely positive! All you christian extremist "occult experts", I can come up with 4 reasons why Harry Potter has nothing to do with the occult.
1. He celebrates Christmas.
2.HP spell: lumos. Wiccan spell: takes a half an hour to say and even the workings of it are all in the spellcasters mind.
3.Occultic spells have to be said at a certain time, facing a certain direction,in a magic circle, with a magic cream, etc,etc,etc. HP spells are nothing like "real" ones.
4. HP gets kids to READ.
These stories are excellent, gripping, virtueous, magical, and simply to good to explain in 1,000 words or less.
Harry Potter rules!...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Loved it
Review: I loved all the Harry Potter books. I think J.K. Rowling has an amazing imagination and I can't wait for the rest of the series.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Rowling is a Goddess.
Review: I wanted to take my time with book 4, cause 5 wont be out till June, & I thought "I can go slow with it being over 700 psges & all, but alas, I couldn't contain myself & had to tame myself to a mear 100 pages a day.
Unfortunately, I was SO into the Harry Potter series that I neglected my college homework & nearly failed a few classes This book, like the others, is not for busy or close-minded people. It will take up your dreams & your free time.
& unlike some Vampire writers who shall remane nameless (not!), Rowling doesnt have issues against fanfic writers. (Darn you, Anne Rice>.<)
For a reccomendation, I found Lord of the Rings dull & babbling, but if you like what Harry Potter's about, I reccomend Disney's Bedknobs & Broomsticks & Japan's animated Slayers (prefurrably subtitled)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Read it in two days!
Review: This book was so unbelievably good, I just couldn't put it down! It took me about two days to read it, just over a week to read the entire 4 books! J.K. Rowling is brilliant once again in her attempt to write about Harry's 4th year experiences at Hogwarts. As always, it had tons of drama and mystery and Malfoy's taunting of Harry makes it an all around excellent book! I can't wait until the 5th book comes out!!


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