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Summary: creepy!!!!!!!!
Review: Ok, let me just start by saying that the dementors are about the creepiest things I've ever read about. I definately don't think I could deal with one. We are introduced to some wonderful new characters here, mainly Lupin and Black. Lupin just can't catch a break and Black seems to be the absolute lowest of the low, aside from Voldemort. Just in case there are still one or two people out there who haven't read this book, I'm not going to spoil anything by saying more, but it is definately worth it. This is the best of the whole series, with 5 being a real close second. Its just sad how close Harry is to an actual family by the end, only to have it snatched away by a stupid little rat. no good. But as we find out in 5, it wouldn't really matter one way or the other would it, he'd still have to go back to the Dursleys'. keep em coming.
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Summary: Harry Potter (^-^)
Review: Ok, maybe Harry Potter is a bit young for me, but I admit that I love it! This has to be my favorite one so far, and I actually convinced my friends to read it (They don't like reading, sadly, but seemed to like it)! If you are wanting to start reading the Harry Potter books, go on! they're very good. Can't wait for 4! Hope they say what happens with someone in this book...hehe (other than potter..duh).
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Summary: The best of the lot!
Review: Ok, so maybe I am a bit old for it (14). But my mom loves these books too, and so do all my friends! After hearing about the Harry Potter series from friends, I decided to pick them up - and couldn't put them down! The Prisoner of Azkaban is the best of the bunch. It is full of inside jokes and plot twists that you really wouldn't understand unless you read the first two books. By the end of each book I was hoping that a letter from Hogwarts would arrive for me and interrupt my boring Muggle existence. The new characters are great...I had never fallen for a character in a book or tv show before (most of my friends had), but Professor Lupin...LOL! Always go for the quiet sensitive types. Anyways, I would recommend this book to ANYONE who hasn't read it. Have fun!
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Summary: excellent
Review: ok. i am a picky picky reader.. and i am shameful to say that i judged this book by it's cover. Who knew that it was a stupendous (my vocab is on vacation) story hidden inside! When ur reading it, it feels like ur in the book.. no kiddin. i needed a couple of hours just to tune back to everyday life. (that's no joke either.) I highly recomend it (duh). I wont lie on this but here's da truth.. it gets u confused. You think you got the whole story figured out but it throws another plot at u. The end is very very surprising.^0^ all my friends think it's good (highschool students__ think about it..) i am recomending my parents to read it too.. please buy the book. and don''t judge the book by it's cover!
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Summary: Nobody wants to admit this book isn't as great as Dickens
Review: OK. These were good books, and this was the Darkest of the three, with a persistent imagery of rain, clouds, wind, depression, and general malaise. I thought the book ambled a bit long,and the plot twists were annoying at points. Her ending was a bit trite, but could be excused for this genre where all manner of twists are perfectly acceptable. I still thought parts plodded from scene to scene a little, but the overall feeling was still of a fun, light read. Each time she manages to add a little more to the story and the background you *think* you know. I think it's getting boring for Gryffindor to win in Quidditch all the time, even taking into account the one loss, it's pretty much a given that the Quidditch season in her books don't add much by way of suspense. Rowlings always manages to persuade you to believe the plausible story, then she springs the truth on you at the end. This is quite pleasurable, although it is now pretty predictable that things won't be as they appear. It's hard to pin this down, but I got the sense that the plots are getting too patched together and jump erratically from scene to scene, as if she is trying to stuff as many gimmicks in as she can.
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Summary: Reader in Mississippi
Review: Okay here we go! I live in a small town and these books have been the topic of everyones conversation lately! I just now got finished with it and I thought that it was totally awesome! The way J.K Rowling always makes you think that you finaly have something figured out and before you know it something totally different happens! I love that about these books! I recommend this book and the others to anybody! It will spark your imagination in ways you didn't know could happen! It did to mine! So read this book you soo wont regret it!
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Summary: this is a great book ( i Hope you noticed)
Review: okay well this book i think is really good just like the othertwo for a lot of reasons. one reason is that you cant put it down andits not boring. i hate reading... well until i found out about this series. when someone showed me the first harry potter book im like "why would i want to read a book about a wizard" but since everyone else told me too i decided to give it a try and wow was i suprised. people i would least expect to be reading these books are reading them. im a 7th grader. im serious guys you would probably like this book. no matter how old you are. and if you absoloutly hate reading then read it for a book report like i did. and you get a great read for a great grade. okay im starting to feel stupid so im going to go now. oh yeah and my favorite characters are fred and george weasel.
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Summary: Ruddy good!
Review: Okay, color me impressed. Rowling has really outdone herself with this one and I expect she will have to really work hard to one up herself on the next book (though she left herself a nice plot thread to explore in the future). I mean the first two books were good but this book approached great. Other than my parenthetical mention of plot thread above, I don't want to say anything else about the plot in this book, because it'd be a shame to spoil it for anyone. I will say a bit about the general content of the book, though. Rowling has clearly improved as a writer. Besides the increasing complexity of her plot, there is also a seriousness to the subject matter that I find almost shocking, yet sensitively handled. There are also shades, I thought, of Lord of the Rings and even Chronicles of Narnia that work nicely as tributes. The book (and the series) is not without its weaknesses, however. There is still the annoying implication that bad, malicious people are ugly, while everyone else is not. Take the House of Slytherin. So far,everyone named from this establishment has some nasty quirk to their personality and have some sort of unpleasantness to their outward appearance as well; I was dissappointed in Book 2, that one of the Slytherin girls was described as an absolute troll and the girl with the crush on Draco Malfoy had "a face like a pug". This is getting rather tiresome and I hope the author will realize how juvenile a concept it is, especially given the seriousness of some of the other subject matter. We get it; people in the Slytherin house are bad. Do they have to be ugly too to drive the point across? Or, more to the point, do they all have to be bad apples in the first place? Enough already! Also, other little things (if I may be allowed to indulge myself) like the hippogriff, probably the most ridiculous creature ever to grace a children's book; nothing at all like the beast of the same name from E.R. Eddison's Worm of Ouroboros. Also, owls do not eat cornflakes. Aside from bad, ugly people and small stuff like the above, this book gets top marks (or close to) and I look forward to the next.
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Summary: Excellent reading....you've gotta try it!
Review: Okay, everyone. I know that if you haven't read it yet, you're thinking, "Why does everyone like this so much?" Well, it's because it is truly, amazingly, WONDERFUL! I love it. This book is definitly the best out of the 3 so far. I love the way the plot turns during the big confrontation. Hermione is still just as zany. But Ron isn't so good anymore. He is becoming quite secondary. I wish J.K.R. would include him more. Thank goodness, Draco is less prominent! He was annoying! I am not ashamed to say, as an 8th grade, 13 year old girl, that I love Harry Potter. He is awesome. JKR has got to be the next genius after Einstien. Go, her! READ H.P.#3!
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Summary: It's worth reading the first two just to get to this one.
Review: Okay, first the bad: this Harry Potter has a slightly darker tone than its predecessors do. Now for the good: it's the best one yet. (This is, in fact, the first Potter book to which I've actually given five stars.) Harry really has his work cut out for him here, as does Rowling. Both rise to the challenge. And though Harry may still make stupid, selfish decisions, Rowling has grown immeasurably as a storyteller. My biggest complaint about the last book was that things were not set up very well; were too dependent on luck, convenience, and chance. Here, the plot is very carefully orchestrated, as evidenced by the time-twisting finale. Rowling really did her homework when putting this book together. This may be a children's book, and may perhaps always be relegated by some to the unfortunate nomenclature, but some supposed "serious" writers would do well to read this book and learn how to put a plot together. Looking forward to book 4.
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