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Summary: Best Harry Potter Yet!
Review: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a wonderful mixture of magical adventure and old-fashioned feelings. While the action is more exciting and fantastic, there is also a warm, believable exploration of the feelings between friends. I can't wait to hear Jim Dale's performance on CD, where every character is given a distinct voice. How does he do that?
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Summary: Fascinating !
Review: Finally its here! Harry's next adventure! This book, like the others, has many twist and turns, and is sure to keep you at the edge of your seat. The first chapter starts off with You- Know- Who and Wormtail plotting their next move. There will be the Quidditch World Cup- an exciting chapter that will have you cheering for your favourite team. Changes will take place at Hogwarts that may affect everyone! And as Ms. Rowling promised, someone that everyone likes will die, which will change the lives of the witches and wizards at Hogwarts... Will You-Know-Who rise again? Who will die? And will Harry or Ron fall in love with Hermione? Get the book to find out.
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Summary: Nonstop
Review: I, with the millions went and bought Haarry Potter IV. Once I picked it up I could not help but read. That night I read from 5:00pm almost non stop until 2:15am the next morning. By 2 I was at page 432, a wild record for me. I finished it by the next evening. I am now considered a teenager at age 13 and appreciated the common situation an adolescent boy, in this case Harry, goes through. I highly recommend this book to all fellow readers. Although take my advice and don't read to much on the first day or you will be downright angry at yourself for not spoiling such treasure.
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Summary: If you liked the others, you'll love this one!
Review: I got this book the day it came out and had it finished that night! I couldn't put it down. There is a new surprise around every corner and sometimes two. I recommend this book to book fans everywhere, especially ones who already love Harry Potter.
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Summary: Excellent work
Review: once again, j.k. rowling does a magnificent job. all should read this book.
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Summary: Lord Voldemort Returns!
Review: Harry, Ron, and Herminone are here for an awesome, action packed adventure! The book was both exciting and scary, and I couldn't stop reading it until it was finished. This book is the best yet in the series. A character does die in the book, so younger readers beware.I can't wait to read the next book!
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: From the moment you open this book you are swept into a magical world of wizards, dragons and magic. The fourth book in this series, The Goblet Of Fire is the best. One reads about the adventures of a fourteen year old wizard-in-training, Harry Potter. Accompanied by his two close friends, Ron and Hermoine, Harry must learn to use his magic as well as fight against Dark wizards who are out to kill him. Buy this book and I'm sure you won't be disappointed. How could millions of kids be wrong?
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Summary: Best of All!
Review: I only read Half of it so I can't say much ,but to not buy it would the biggest mistake of your life. I can only write a little because i have to get the book. For those who say "it way to long for me". I bet you if you like the Harry Potter series you will finsh it in 2 weeks. I promise. Cause Harry Potter is #1!
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Summary: A great addition to the Harry Potter oeuvre!
Review: It's rare to find a book series where each installment keeps getting better and better, but the Harry Potter series is one. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire doesn't just continue the Harry Potter mythos, it broadens and deepens it. Clocking in at a hefty 700-plus pages, it might be a little too heavy to peruse in the bathtub, but it's such a swift read that I knocked it off in one afternoon. Part of the fun of a series like this one is that you get to meet old friends again, like Ron, Hagrid, Hermione, and Dumbledore, while you also get the opportunity to meet new Rowling creations, like Mad-Eye Moody, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher, who has a magical eye that can detect falsehood (very inconvenient for students making up excuses about their homework) and see through invisibility cloaks (much to Harry's alarm.) Harry contends with a host of new challenges in this book, both magical (of course) and non-magical (Harry's crush on the pretty and popular Cho Chang offers him as many stomach-clenching moments as a Quidditch match.)I was afraid that as the books got darker and more complex in their themes, the humor might be lost, but never fear: Rowling's wit only serves to make the darker passages more effective, and in some cases, very moving. Verdict: read it!
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Summary: Potty about Harry, Hogwarts n'all
Review: 'The Goblet of Fire': such a name conjures up images of a Grail quest. Rowling's prose has dealt with such dark issues before, and she herself announced that a character is set to die in this novel... And also that Harry has a growing interest in girls. You can't help but try to speculate what's going to happen in this book, the clues are so tantalizing. I sort of guessed correctly who Harry's squeeze was going to be, but Rowling completely surprised me with the identity of the deceased. The secrecy surrounding Harry Potter 4 was done very well, and the book more than lives up to your expectations. There was the increased security for all bookshops, although one resourceful girl sneaked a copy out and read it (she must have done a gone back in time charm). Gringotts are most displeased that she managed to steal a copy past the massive three-headed dog that was guarding it. However, it may have been unwise for them to choose Fluffy... The girl was seen carrying a gramophone player at the time. Never mind. Harry Potter himself has placed a silencing charm upon her, for she has not yet revealed the plot (although this may also be due to the sheer vastness of the book, which seems to be double or even triple the usual Potter). Secret preparations were in place for the dispatch of the book. The Hogwarts Express was pressed into service, and every owl practiced with weights for a fortnight. Even Buckbeak was allowed back from exile in order to do his bit. The password had to be changed from 'Pig Snout', since muggle security guards seemed to find this offensive. Everything had to be right for the biggest spell of magic ever. The muggles think it's fiction, but we know better... I think the main appeal of Rowling's books is not the character of Potter himself (most often the visiting protagonists are much better sketched than the boy himself). Since all the novels revolve about Potter, I sometimes think that it would be better to see Hogwarts through his eyes, in the first person. However, Rowling bewitches you with her plots, which are superb. I hear it's a seven book series, and I believe that Rowling knows exactly what's going to happen in the end. Each volume seems to have clues for future books, and now appear to be much more open ended, and thus more compulsive. Certainly, pre-orders for Harry Potter 5 are going to break even more records in bookshops. Hogwarts itself seems to have come from Walpole's 'Castle of Otranto', with its ghosts and lively paintings. However, Hogwarts is both far more benign and malign than Otranto, if that makes any sense. Certainly Rowling's prose is more polished than Walpole's. Although the narrative is very modern, there are quite a few healthy references to the past. I love Rowling's use of Latin, her playing with words. If anything though, I would probably want to branch Rowling off into the more adult writing of Christopher Fowler and Joanne Harris. Harris certainly has the same love of the Gothic, the Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and last, but not least, chocolate. In 'Blackberry Wine', Harris' latest novel, there is just about the same high regard for the media as Rowling produces here in 'The Goblet of Fire'. I think that most authors cannot but help put what they know into their writing, and I think Rowling's sudden celebrity has added a powerful ingredient to these novels, especially this one. What's most attractive about this series of novels is the narrative progression. Rowling lets Harry Potter grow up before our eyes, so the books should become more mature as they go on. Harry Potter's certainly no Bart Simpson or Peter Pan, forever trapped in childhood - but there's no doubt that he's every bit as immortal as they are. I think his appeal lies not in his being a fabulous wizard, but in the fact that he is so human. He's not a totally virtuous hero, he's not whiter than white, and is more than capable of spite and mischief. This makes him a far more interesting protagonist in his fight against evil, a battle he only conducts due to the dire circumstances of his parents' murder. But Rowling's proved before that she can make you twist and turn with her fiction. There are plenty of surprises in this new book, which I'll not reveal. Let's just say that you hope that Harry Potter has much better form than most English sportsmen seem to have at the moment... Of course, you have to read all the books, and in sequence, to get proper enjoyment out of them. The Goblet of Fire is a very long book, but like Harry himself, you'll be racing towards the end. This is the best book in the Harry Potter series - so far. Rowling is the consummate entertainer: she always leaves you wanting for more. Now, how about extending it to an eight or nine book series?
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