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	• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004 - 796 pages average customer review:based on 5192 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

She could have done it in fewer pages

This book gets a 3 from me becuse it seems like a whole bunch of unnecessary things happen just for the sake of who knows what. It's like we get a tiny glimpse of the wizarding world outside of Hogwarts, and then we never hear about it again. We never learn of anything substantial about the other two schools. We don't learn anything about the Salem Witches institute. Why even bring these things up if we never really hear about them?

Also, couldn't the fake Mad Eye Moody have turned anything into a Portkey like the first day? Wouldn't that have been way easier than rigging 3 super hard contest? I think this book was just an attempt put in useless action.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by Adri

In J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter a young wizard doesn't want what everyone else does. He has always been the center of attention and now that he is entered in the Triwizard Tournament, he gets even more attention! He didn't enter himself and whoever did is not his friend. He must compete in three tasks to achieve a thousand galleons which he doesn't need. This is such a great story and it's one of the longest books in the series, but it seems so short and I couldn't put it down.

Wow, just wow!

" Harry rose a few more feet, and she let out a roar of exasperation. He was like a fly to her, a fly she was longing to swat; her tail thrashed again, but he was too high to reach. She shot fire, which he dodged. Her jaws opened wide....." (Rowling 355) This frightening scene is from the enormously famous novel, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Harry Potter is an extremely popular series of books written by J.K. Rowling, who began it by writing on napkins in a restaurant. No one could have guessed that her books would become book-blockbusters. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth installment in the seven part series of the adventures of Harry Potter.
Harry Potter is the main character in the series. Throughout the series, he shows that he's strong, courageous, and a fierce friend. In the parts before this, he has fought trolls, killer sports balls, a huge snake, and dementors, the soul sucking guards of wizard prison. He also destroyed the most powerful dark wizard ever to walk the Earth, when he was a baby. Harry had to be courageous to stand up to all these things. He has practically been put to heck and back. Harry has two best friends, Ron and Herminone that he has put his life in danger to help.
In his fourth year of Hogwarts, the wizard school, a great tournament is being held for wizards 17 and up. A special item, the Goblet of Fire, is used to pick contestant from the three wizard schools, Hogwarts, Beauxbaton, and Durmstrang. When Harry's name comes out of the Goblet, he is accused of cheating and nobody supports him. The people who compete have to fight dragons, merpeople, and many other fierce creatures. First, he has to fight a dragon. Then, delve into a lake filled with merpeople. Finally, he has to fight the trophy inside a gigantic maze. What will happen? Will Harry emerge the youngest champion ever? Or will he be dragon chow in a merperson's stew?
In my opinion, this book gets an eight out of ten from me. It is a real page turner, and very hard to put down. The many descriptive words made visualizing extremely easy. The book also has well-developed characters that make the non action sequences interesting, and not that many books are able to do that. At 734 pages, it's a relatively long novel, but all the amazing elements make it seem too short. In conclusion, this book is a must-read for any person who loves the series or who just wants a good thrill, and even for people who don't love magic or thrills and chills.
If you like Harry Potter, this is a must-have!

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Great Condition

I was worried about buying a book for 5 cents. Yet the only thing was the cover had a diagonal crease. Who cares?! I am definitely buying more books from thriftbooks

A return to form (mostly)

If you have read the first three books in the Harry Potter series you have probably for the most part found the books enjoyable - otherwise why would you be looking at a review of the fourth book? But if you are like me you might have been wondering how this installment holds up after the disappointing Prisoner of Azkaban (which I gave only 2 stars). Is the series in decline?

Fortunately the answer appears to be "no". That isn't to say that this is the best in the series to date, but it is closer in quality to the excellent first two novels and (mostly) avoided the pitfalls of the previous work. Let's get the drawbacks out of the way first, then on the positives...

Drawbacks: Unfortunately this novel does suffer to a degree the same fate as Azkaban - it is overly long and could have used additional editing to tighten up the story and improve the pace in the middle section of the book. A specific example of this are the side stories (such as Hermione's attempts to free the house elves) that attempt add a bit more flavor/character development, however they seem forced and are not well integrated into the main story. Instead they mainly serve to bog down the main story as they don't have any impact on the outcome of events.

Positives: For the most part the balance of humor, wisdom, camaraderie and darkness that was so well done in the first two novels (but lacking in Azkaban) is back. Structurally the book is the same as its predecessors but this time the intro portion covering the Quiddich World Cup was a welcome change from the usual overdone browbeating Harry receives at the Dursleys. And finally, the "confrontation" section of the book (essentially the last third) has excellent pacing and has equal parts of excitement and impending doom - the confrontation in Chamber of Secrets is still my favorite but this one is a very close second.

I was tempted to knock this down to a 3-star rating due to the distractions and slow pace of the middle of the book, but the strong ending convinced me this deserves 4 stars. Hardcore fans of the series will no doubt find even a four-star rating to be harsh, but for me 4 stars indicates a solid work worthy of recommendation. In the end, I'm just glad to see the series seems to be back on track.

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