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Summary: GREAT INSTALLMENT!
Review: I got a copy of this book early, and, though I haven't finished reading it, I can honestly say it is an amazing book, juat as magical as the past books! If you still haven't fallen in love with Harry Potter, you are missing out! I suppose you COULD read this book if you haven't read the others, but it's best to be familiarized with Harry's world. This book, warning, is DARKER than the rest, but it's still full of the charm that makes this series so special!
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Summary: Harry Potter Could Save The World
Review: Let me please say that this book and the series is one of the best things to happen to child literacy, ever. I'm not exagerating when I say it's history in the making. And while maybe not the all-time best novels or child literature pieces, hats off to the author and her publisher for the interest in reading and books in general this is stirring around the world. I don't care how commercialized or marketed it's been, these books are bringing a whole new generation of young readers back to really enjoying and anticipating reading their next book. Every child's freiend who might not be a "reader" all of the sudden is hooked because *everyone* is reading it. I'm actually hearing kids sit around in groups and actually having serious, enthusiastic conversations about the books (outside of school yet!) This is a fantastic result, and far more important than any criticism about the means that produced it. Parents are reading to kids again (or more), older kids are reading to their younger siblings, and hopefully televisions and videos and video games around the world are gathering a dust for a while. Besides, the book is just a plain old good, fun read! I truly believe that this book will spark a wide-reaching interest in reading, and any one child who continues on with more and more books could become a great person who makes a difference in our world. Browse the rest of Amazon or your local store or library with your children as soon as they finish this book and keep them interested in reading! Right now, encourage them to talk about the book, anything about it, and listen and support them with their reading. This is so very important. Let's not let the chance get go by...
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Summary: Harry's growing up
Review: Harry Potter returns better than ever! From the Quidditch World Cup to the Triwizard tournament to his showdown with you know who, Harry is as amazing as ever! But what was the best was watching him grow up another year, I can't wait for the next and next and next.
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Summary: I think this book is my favorite so far!
Review: The tri-wizard contest came at a time when I, as a reader, was getting tired of reading about Quiddich. :) I loved this book and the book iteslf was long enough to get to know the characters and really care about the wizards in the contest! Rowlings knows how to write kids - I thought it was brilliant. I am not going to summarize the story because it has been done so many times in these reviews! Great book!!!
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I definitely think JK Rowling has honed her craft. I did not like the original Potter book, because I thought there wasn't much depth to the characters and everthing was predictable. As of the Prisoner book, I think she has definitely improved. I liked this so much I could barely put it down. The thing that separates this book out from her first two novels is that as the characters age, the plots have become much darker and much less predictable, and this one, in particular, reads almost like a mystery novel, because there is so much left up in the air. The ending also sets the stage for future novels. I think kids and adults (myself included) will find this to be the best Potter book yet (I have not yet read the Order of the Phoenix)
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Summary: They Keep Getting Better and Better. . .Worth Every Penny!
Review: EVERYONE SHOULD BUY THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS! I think the threebefore "Goblet of Fire" were fast-paced and quite simply,the best books I have ever read. This new book is no exception. The 734 pages make for more fantastic details, surprises, and more reading of this fabulous series. A lot of new characters are introduced, as well as your favorite old ones and the excitement and mystery is still there, creating an atmosphere unequaled in book history. There is a new idea, a tournament with other wizarding schools, which of course provides more ways for adventure for Harry and his pals. The climax is startling and there are numerous surprise endings, like in all Harry Potter books. Harry even starts to discover girls, and if you like Quidditch, the Quidditch World Cup chapter is smack around the start of the book. I got this book at midnight at a bookstore, and started this morning. Only taking a few shorts breaks, I read the afternoon away. I could not put it down and just finished it. Now I can't wait for the fifth one! To all Harry Potter fans, buy the book. If you've never read Harry Potter, get out of your cave and buy this book, as to not miss the best series in the entire world. I can't really give my real rating, because the largeness of the number would take up to much space. Just do yourself the biggest favor possible and BUY "HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE"!
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Summary: Not just for kids!
Review: Ages 9-12 shouldn't get to have all the fun! "The Goblet of Fire" is a terrific story for anyone who has ever wanted to fly or gazed longingly at a poster of a favorite athlete, wishing that athlete could come to life. JK Rowling makes it happen and if your imagination hasn't been too stifled and trodden down by the concerns of everyday life, then this book might be for you, no matter what your age. "The Goblet of Fire" is exciting, funny, frightening and impossible to put down. I kept telling myself "just one more chapter" until I had finished the final 450 pages in one fell swoop! The hype and hyperbole proved to be fully justified and Ms Rowling has shown herself to be a wonderfully creative and insightful writer. As a junior high and high school English teacher, one of my main frustrations is the fact that my students don't want to read for pleasure, even when given time to do so in class. However, the Harry Potter series has renewed the hope with which I began my career 15 years ago, that books and good, old-fashioned story-telling and imagination weren't yet out of style. Thanks, Ms Rowling, for Harry Potter, Hermione, Ron and the rest of the Hogwarts gang, yes, even Draco Malfoy, the kid we all love to hate! And thanks, too, for bringing back my own junior high memories after all these years with your refreshingly honest and accurate portrayals of young boys and girls discovering new experiences and getting to know each other again for the first time.
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Summary: Goblet of Fire
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The villagers of Little Hangleron still called it "the Riddle House," even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there. It stood on a hill overlooking the village, some of its windows boarded, tiles missing from its roof, and ivy spreading unchecked over its face. Once a fine-looking manor, and easily the largest and grandest building for miles around, the Riddle House was now damp, derelict, and unoccupied.
The Little Hagletons all agreed that the old house was "creepy." Half a century ago, something strange and horrible had happened there, something that the older inhabitants of the village still liked to discuss when topics for gossip were scarce. The story had been picked over so many times, and had been embroidered in so many places, that nobody was quite sure what the truth was anymore. Every version of the tale, however, started in the same place: Fifty years before, at daybreak on a fine summer's morning when the Riddle House had still been well kept and impressive, a maid had entered the drawing room to find all three Riddles dead.
The maid had run screaming down the hill into the village and roused as many people as she could.
"Lying there with their eyes wide open! Cold as ice! Still in their dinner things!"
The police were summoned, and the whole of Little Hangleton had seethed with shocked curiosity and ill-disguised excitement. Nobody wasted their breath pretending to feel very sad about the Riddles, for they had been most unpopular. Elderly Mr. and Mrs. Riddle had been rich, snobbish, and rude, and their grown-up son, Tom, had been, if anything, worse. All the villagers cared about was the identity of their murderer -- for plainly, three apparently healthy people did not all drop dead of natural causes on the same night.
The Hanged Man, the village pub, did a roaring trade that night; the whole village seemed to have turned out to discuss the murders. They were rewarded for leaving their firesides when the Riddles' cook arrived dramatically in their midst and announced to the suddenly silent pub that a man called Frank Bryce had just been arrested.
"Frank!" cried several people. "Never!"
Frank Bryce was the Riddles' gardener. He lived alone in a run-down cottage on the grounds of the Riddle House. Frank had come back from the war with a very stiff leg and a great dislike of crowds and loud noises, and had been working for the Riddles ever since.
There was a rush to buy the cook drinks and hear more details.
"Always thought he was odd," she told the eagerly listening villagers, after her fourth sherry. "Unfriendly, like. I'm sure if I've offered him a cuppa once, I've offered it a hundred times. Never wanted to mix, he didn't."
"Ah, now," said a woman at the bar, "he had a hard war, Frank. He likes the quiet life. That's no reason to --"
"Who else had a key to the back door, then?" barked the cook. "There's been a spare key hanging in the gardener's cottage far back as I can remember! Nobody forced the door last night! No broken windows! All Frank had to do was creep up to the big house while we was all sleeping..."
The villagers exchanged dark looks.
"I always thought that he had a nasty look about him, right enough," grunted a man at the bar.
"War turned him funny, if you ask me," said the landlord.
"Told you I wouldn't like to get on the wrong side of Frank, didn't I, Dot?" said an excited woman in the corner.
"Horrible temper," said Dot, nodding fervently. "I remember, when he was a kid..."
By the following morning, hardly anyone in Little Hangleton doubted that Frank Bryce had killed the Riddles.
But over in the neighboring town of Great Hangleton, in the dark and dingy police station, Frank was stubbornly repeating, again and again, that he was innocent, and that the only person he had seen near the house on the day of the Riddles' deaths had been a teenage boy, a stranger, dark-haired and pale. Nobody else in the village had seen any such boy, and the police were quite sure Frank had invented him.
Then, just when things were looking very serious for Frank, the report on the Riddles' bodies came back and changed everything.
The police had never read an odder report. A team of doctors had examined the bodies and had concluded that none of the Riddles had been poisoned, stabbed, shot, strangles, suffocated, or (as far as they could tell) harmed at all. In fact (the report continued, in a tone of unmistakable bewilderment), the Riddles all appeared to be in perfet health -- apart from the fact that they were all dead. The doctors did note (as though determined to find something wrong with the bodies) that each of the Riddles had a look of terror upon his or her face -- but as the frustrated police said, whoever heard of three people being frightened to death?
As there was no proof that the Riddles had been murdered at all, the police were forced to let Frank go. The Riddles were buried in the Little Hangleton churchyard, and their graves remained objects of curiosity for a while. To everyone's surprise, and amid a cloud of suspicion, Frank Bryce returned to his cottage on the grounds of the Riddle House.
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Summary: Harry continues his great journey as a wizard!
Review: These books are just so entertaining!
This one has a wonderful story about student wizards performing certain deeds ( like fighting dragons etc )to become the "Champion".
Naturally Harry finds himself in the thick of it, battling to stay alive, and vying to be the Champion too.
I found the story engrossing, and just had to keep reading to see what would happen.
The Quidditch World Cup also happens, and the reader will find him or herself captivated by the descriptions of the match.
The books shoots along at a great pace, and is quite humerous in parts, and very dark in others.
A book for all ages ( I am 33 at the time of writing! )
It's nice to see Harry maturing, becoming stronger in character and exploring different aspects of his life.
A ripping good read!
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Summary: A phenom of fictional literature
Review: By far my favorite of the series. in this the fourth instalment in the ever pleasing Harry Potter series, Harry is put into a legendary wizard tournament where he gets to "play with the big kids." Intelligently written, J. K. Rowling writes yet another book not just for kids anymore, being 20 myself i am reading the book again. She has a mystical way of describing things and people in a way not seen too often. Harry grows up a lot in this book as well when he has to rise up to a level of wizardry he has not yet been taught and must go it alone. Make sure that both you and your kids read all of the books and make sure you don't skip this one!
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