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Summary: COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN
Review: I got the book at like eight o'clock in the morning and didn't take my eyes off it until two in the morning. I ended up spraining my thumb from holding the thing, but it was worth it. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the best book in the Harry Potter series thusfar.
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Summary: News On The New Coming Harry Potter Books
Review: I thaught The Goblet Of Fire was the best out of the four books. I didnt see anything wrong with it.I thaught the book was written well and had a clear storyline.Although it took a long time to get into the part where harry gets to hogwarts.You need to read it all to understand the storyline.Someone does die in the book who is well known.Dont read the last three chapters of the book because it spoils the whole plot.In the last somebody very well known might die as well.
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Summary: Is JK Rowling Loosing her touch?
Review: I really enjoyed the the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of the Harry Potter books. I think it's sort-of long, and the fact that Harry Potter is special is sort-of getting old. I think it's too much in one small book, I mean, 700 pages! The fact that crushes are introduced is sort of, well you know what I mean. That's what I think.
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Summary: Weak turning point
Review: Let me start off by saying I love the Harry Potter series and think J.K. Rowling is a terrific author. When this book came out my father and I were continuously fighting over it, I would steal it from his room while he was at work, and he would steal it back as soon as I fell asleep. Eventually I gave up and borrowed the book from a friend who had read the book in one night. The book was alright, but I was told this was the turning point in the series. In that regard, I feel it fell short. Yes, I know you avid fans are probably saying to yourselves "well, I'd like to see you do better," and your right, I probably could not. However, I believe J.K. could have. As I said, I am a fan of Rowling and I anxiously await her next Harry Potter book. I hope it comes out when my father is out of town.
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Summary: From excellent to sublimeness
Review: This fourth volume makes you hope there will be many more. By far, so far, the best, and the thickest. The book is packed with events and a tremendous level of creativity and imagination. At the same time the references to the previous volumes are still numerous, giving to this new episode a perfect continuity in the story. The first element that jumps out is the fact that Harry Potter has been growing in age from one volume to the next, and in this volume he really has his age, thirteen. This is the mark of a very good writer who is able to follow the maturity or the maturation of the characters, so that the story is realistic. Never in the four volumes, and particularly in this volume, are the characters older than they should be. Hermione discovers social consciousness and gets interested in the fate of elves, as well as she discovers the difference between friendship and love. Ron Weasley discovers the need to believe his friends and the first pangs of love or sexual awareness. Harry Potter opens his eyes to the necessity to assume his responsibilities by learning what he needs to accomplish his tasks and the sense of honor and human solidarity even within a competition in which he tries, and he is not the only one, to remain human, with his challengers or co-competitors, instead of being an unsensitive and selfish winning machine. This is done with great subtlety and delicacy. Fred and George Weasley are older and they discover the need to have a social and economic position in society that brings in an income based on a creative project for the whole community : this is known as business in any society. The second element is that the confrontation between Potter and Voldemort finally comes to a direct face-to-face one-on-one duel whose stake is life or death for Harry Potter as well as life or death for his direct friends and the whole community. The battle leaves the level of individuals to reach the level of society, a real universal value, a cosmological dimension. And in this progressively built up, and non-final because undecisive as for the life of death of Voldemort himself, frontal shock, the writer shows a level of imagination that has no limits. She uses older elements in an unforeseen or at least partially unpredictable way, and she adds new elements that are totally undeductable from the previous volumes. Suspense is absolute and never, at this level, loosened or weakened. The third element is The widening of the national and ethnic scope of the book. The author introduces a competition that brings into the picture two schools from abroad : one from France and another one from eastern and central Europe. Hence there is a play on the particular « dialects » of those foreigners in their use of English, a play on food variations, on clothing variations, on transportation variations, etc. This is supposed to widen the scope of the students’ consciousness and awareness of the differences that exist between and among humans to bring out a wider accepting of national and international cooperation. But she also widens the scope by introducing several other communities, particularly some that are traditionally rejected by wizards and witches on the basis or pure prejudice, that is to say racism : merpeople, elves, goblins (a little), giants (only a beginning). The aim is always to show that cooperation between different ethnic groups is necessary to give the future some stability and predictability. The fourth element has to do with political power and its abuses. Power for the sake of power (Lord Voldemort), or for the sake of stability (The Minister of Magic, Fudge), or for the sake of lawfulness (that always covers some unlawful element and some inhuman attitudes to impose the law), or for the sake of personal privileges (like the power to show off, to get publicity, to bet and gamble) leads to abuse and cecity, at least shortsightedness, the incapability to see how the future will change and warp those principles or objectives, those ambitions, those values : to be a real leader you have to keep in mind the unification of your people and the wider longer aims of human life, of social life, of history. Lord Voldemort and his followers find themselves on the wrong side of history, just the same as the Minister of Magic who only wants to protect what has achieved, which is the past, and to prolong it into the future. This idea that the future needs moral commitment and the accepting of change is essential in this book. There is a real mirror in the book that gives us a picture of our own society that uses democracy in order to capture power in the name of change and progress, and then defend it in the name of stability. Any political leader is led to conservativeness, I am even inclined to saying conservation. We thus wait for the next volume that will have to deal with the fight against the revived Lord Voldemort and also with some fundamental issues that have not yet been solved : love and its outcome, the fate of Harry’s godfather, the need of justice and to avoid injustice or to repair cases of injustice, when injustice occors, etc. We can trust the writer to bring in new elements that will constantly feed the mill of suspense and imagination.
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Summary: If I could, I`d give this 6 out of 5. HARRY POTTER RULES!!
Review: I`m a 16 year old reader, and before reading any of the Harry Potter books, I used to hate reading, it wasn`t my favourite pastime. Ever since I read the first of the series (thanks Mom for begging me) now- I LOVE READING THANKS TO HARRY POTTER!!
The 1st book is the 4th best book ever written, every new book in the series got at least 3 times better than the last. With Goblet of Fire, I`m surprised that J.K. Rowling can keep the same loveable characters, epic rewarding storyline, well developed with great follow-through plot, great surprises, original writing style, great dialogue, and make those elements even better presented in the Goblet of Fire, THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN, CAN`T WAIT FOR BOOK 5!! .... BUY THIS AND THE REST OF THE SERIES NOW!!
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Summary: Greatest book ever
Review: This is a revised version of my other review. As I have previously said this is the greatest book ever. Because of the Tri - Wizard tournament there is no Quidditch at the school. In October the two other magic schools Beaxbutons and Durmstrang come to Hogwarts to participate in this event. You have to be at least 17 to be able to enter but someone enters Harry's name, I won't tell you who though. In this book Harry finds a crush Cho Chang and so does Hagrid , Madam Maxime. Harry meets Voldemort again and finds out a few secrets from him and Dumbledore. The reason for this books length is because of the Quidditch world cup that the Weasley's, Harry and Hermione go to in the beginning. Not until page 150 do they go to Hogwarts. They also spend a lot of tome doing the tasks for the tri-wizard tournament. In the last task Harry spends quite a bit of time with Voldemort. They also spend quite a bit of time finding out secrets. So remember buy this book!
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Summary: Every corner
Review: Oh my gosh this is a great book! In the past week I have read it twice Isn't that a record or what! Harry Potter and the goblet of fire is a great book for all of you who belive that anything is possible, want an adventure story, or if your'e just looking for a good read! I recommend it for all ages but it even gave my mom a spook!And when i ask people what they're favorite book is from every corner of the neighborhood, I hear Harry Potter, year four.
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Summary: The beginning of a new Harry Potter!
Review: This book has raked up much praise and adoration from the young reading public. The exciting story lines, and exotic characters revolving around a magical setting is what brings in the young readers. However, the complex relationships that Harry entertains with his friends, family, mentors, and enemies are what keeps the mature readers of Harry Potter. This book is seemingly the beginning of what seems to be the "maturing process" of a young boy we have all come to adore. This stage in young Harry Potter's life arouses a bit of nervous feelings for the adult readers because new problems and situations are bound to be introduced to the seemingly very young readers. Perhaps, this "maturing process" will rake in a whole new audience of readers and loose the large fans Harry Potter has already gathered. Personally, I can't wait to see how J.K. Rowlings pulls this off. The raging hormones and erratic teenage behavior ought to be a significant twist to the already innovative plot! This book is the beginning of a new stage of Harry Potter and marks a long period of waiting to see what will happen next...
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Summary: A Wondreful Book
Review: I loved the Harry Potter books:all of them. But I really liked this one.This is a great book for kids as well as adults. I can't wiat until the fifth one comes out!
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