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Review : Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in Hardcover
Normally I never review books but I figure I might as well give it a shot.
Now I have read all the other Harry Potter books but I do not get obsessive over it like a demented Star Trekie meeting William Shatner. I think that JK Rowling is a very talented author but I don't expect it the book to give my life meaning. But then again if going to the Lord of the Rings movie is cool and reading the book is cool what makes Harry Potter nerdish. Well Perhaps besides the fact that harry Potter is a nerd himself.
Yes you heard me right Harry Potter is a nerd. He is not the strongest but is fast and a gifted student with the exception of Potions with Snape. Also the shaggy mop hair cut and thick rimmed glasses are a pretty big tip off that Harry is a nerd. I am surprised that Harry does not take some gold out of Gringotts bank then go back to the Muggle world and buy a fly laptop PC then use the Floo network as a WiFi booster and turn Hogwarts into one big Wifi hot spot. I mean you can't just lay down ethernet when the castle re-arranges itself. But some well placed Wifi notes and he could even cover Gryffindor tower.
Anyway on to reviewing the book. At 870 pages this is the size of a phone book and I understand why it took her so long to write it. At the current growth rate of the books we could expect the final chapter to be finished in 2021 and the book to be 5,432 pages. But I jest. This book is full of a lot of action and is much darker and mid-evil than the previous ones. JK figures that her audience is maturing as she can make the plots more complex and the settings darker than the previous books.
Harry is a bit of a whiny hormonal awkward teenager in this book and he deserves a smack to the backside of the head some times but then again weren't we all at that age.
Yup some one important dies but I am not going to say. And you find out some really important secrets about Harry's past but I give no clues.
You know how that harry potter is one of the most banned books ever from public libraries and schools now? Well wait until he comes of age and all the cute witches want to be enchanted with his magic wand.
It is the size of a phone book and requires you to lift with the knees when you move it but it is a very good book and is just as good as the rest of the series. I can't wait til Ms. Rowling finishes the final two books.
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Jake at July 27, 2003 
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Isn't it Mrs. Rowling? ;) I dun really care.. compared to LOTR.. this book seems a bit childish.. with the simple details and so.. good review :) Cheers
Posted by: olleman at July 27, 2003 2:36 AM
Great review! Awesome book. I can't wait for the other two to see what happens next. It was very tough for me not to talk about who got killed in my post on Harry Potter b/c I was wrong with my guess before I started the book.
Posted by: K at July 27, 2003 8:01 AM
I am waiting for the paperback version...I have a thing about buying hardback books. :)
Posted by: Beth at July 27, 2003 8:51 AM
I think this whole "character death" thing of Rowling's is trumped-up and over-hyped. When Dobby is eaten alive by Buckbeak on page 378, it was anticlimactic, sudden and utterly without emotional impact. Not to mention a little too dark and descriptive for a children's book. I mean, "Hermione pointed, white-faced, at the shrieking house-elf as Buckbeak tugged out his entrails"? Gruesome.
It's like Rowling just pulled one out of her ass to pacify her fans. At least in the last book, she waited until the end before killing someone off.
Posted by: Evilninja at July 27, 2003 4:35 PM
i've never read the books, though i plan to...i love the movies so far however...
Posted by: lilly at July 28, 2003 7:27 AM
