Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Emece Editores
Date Published: 2004-02-01
ISBN-13:9788478888849ISBN:8478888845
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9788478888849. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Emece Editores
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9788478888849ISBN:8478888845
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Emece Editores
Date Published: 2004-03-01
ISBN-13:9788478889013ISBN:8478889019
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9788478889013. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Illustrated Softcover
Publisher: Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra, S.A., Barcelona, Espana
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9788478888535ISBN:8478888535
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. "Las tediosas vacaciones de verano en casa de sus tios todavia no han acabado y Harry se encuentra mas inquieto que nunca. Aoenas ha tenido noticias de Ron y Hermione, y presiente que algo extrano esta sucediendo en Hogwarts. En efecto, cuando por fin comienza otro curso enel famoso colegio de magia y hechiceria, sus temores se vuelven realidad. " This book has 893 pages. The text is written entirely in SPANISH. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lectorum Publications
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9788478889013ISBN:8478889019
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Description: Good. 8478889019 EX-LIBRARY, READERWEAR AND SHELFWEAR ARE MINOR BUT PRESENT. LIBRARY MARKINGS ARE CONSISTANT WITH TYPICAL LIBRARY STICKERS AND STAMPS. read more
Description: Good. 8478889019 EX-LIBRARY, READERWEAR AND SHELFWEAR ARE MINOR BUT PRESENT. LIBRARY MARKINGS ARE CONSISTANT WITH TYPICAL LIBRARY STICKERS AND STAMPS. read more
Description: Fine. Las tediosas vacaciones de verano en casa de sus tios todavía no han acabado y Harry se encuentra más inquieto que nunca. Apenas ha tenido noticias de Ron y Hermione, y presiente que algo extraño está sucediendo en Hogwarts. En efecto, cuando por fin comienza otro curso en el famoso colegio de magia y hechicería, sus temores se vuelven realidad. El Ministerio de Magia niega que Voldemort haya regresado y ha iniciado una campaña de desprestigio contra Harry y Dumbledore, para lo cual ha ... read more
Description: New. Las tediosas vacaciones de verano en casa de sus tios todavía no han acabado y Harry se encuentra más inquieto que nunca. Apenas ha tenido noticias de Ron y Hermione, y presiente que algo extraño está sucediendo en Hogwarts. En efecto, cuando por fin comienza otro curso en el famoso colegio de magia y hechicería, sus temores se vuelven realidad. El Ministerio de Magia niega que Voldemort haya regresado y ha iniciado una campaña de desprestigio contra Harry y Dumbledore, para lo cual ha ... read more
"As I was early in the previous volume, I voiced a thought aloud to a close friend who I was visiting that it does seem, occasionally, that the author allows certain annoying - problems or plot devices - I guess you could call them, like the Dursleys, to go on a bit too long...that was the only problem I could think of with the series as a whole. And having just finished the 5th volume, which is if anything superior even to the masterful "Goblet of Fire", I now fully understand her comment to me that Ms Rowling seems instinctively to know when readers are getting tired of some of her more irritating characters and themes, and changes tactics accordingly as if she can read our minds. As well as continuing to take the story (and we must at this point consider it a single story, a single 4000-or-so page novel) in new and unexpected directions that always wind up quite logical in the end.
"Order" is the most complex and intense book yet, less straightforward and seemingly a little more hazy than its immediate predecessor at first, but probably only because it mirrors the increasingly disordered and challenged mind of its hero, who has more and more to deal with in every chapter -- exams, adolescent feelings of jealousy and rage involving the girl he can't quite get together with, fear of his future, and of course fear of the returning Dark Lord. Somehow it all seems to coalesce in the last third, bringing the most thrilling, and most heartwrending conclusion of the books thus far.
I can't believe I put these off so long. Unless the last two seriously disappoint (quite doubtful), this is the greatest children's fantasy series ever written, and as Steven King has said, a great achievement not just in its small - but ever-growing due to it's incredible success - genre, but in all of literature."
"I cried like a little baby. J.K. Rowling really starts taking the series down a darker road in this book. She is so talented at character development, and it really shines in this book. Here, Harry is 15 years old, and for most of the book, he's whiny and self-centered, just like a typical teenager. I also adore Dumbledore's role in this book--his conversation at the end with Harry put me to tears. Rowling did an amazing job with the character of Umbridge...never have I hated a fictional character more than I hated her. I do have to admit, I'm curious to see whether she makes any more appearances or not. For me, this book was stronger for character development than plot. Yes, this is a key book for the series, but I felt like most of the book was spent with characters' internal issues and development rather than the plot. I love how Harry and the crew are dealing with more adult issues now, such as relationships and death. As with all of her books, I have a really difficult time putting these books down, but especially within the last 100 pages, I physically could not separate the book from my hands. Overall, another outstanding addition from J.K. Rowling."
"Since pretty much everyone I know has read these books, I figure reviewing them is pretty pointless. But with the new book coming out in a couple of days, I have to go through them beginning to end. To make the reviews more entertaining, I will be doing them in a variety of unexpected formats. For this review, I will be writing as an unnamed member of the Bush administration.
So, how long until we can get this Rowling woman into Gitmo?
I mean really, have you read this book? It's an 800-page diatribe encouraging children to not only question authority, but to actively disobey it! I mean look at what we have here - there's a magical government that is responsible for to oversight and management of magical folk in Britain. Now I'm not entirely sure how this organization works, but I do know this - where there is a government, there is authority, and that authority must be there for a reason. No matter how much you may disagree with it, you have to understand that everything those in authority are doing is for your benefit.
It pained me to see how the character of Dolores Umbridge was treated in this book. She single-handedly tried to bring order to Hogwarts and steer it from the liberal-free-thinking path to destruction paved by that long-haired hippie Dumbledore. And what did Umbridge get for her hard work? The Medal of Freedom? No! She got carried off by a pack of wild centaurs. How is that right? Moreover, what kind of example is that setting for American children?
Now I don't care if Rowling wants to cripple a generation of readers in Britain. Go ahead, it's not like we need them anyway. But with these books becoming so popular in the United States, there is a very great danger that her insidious brand of rebellion and individualism will infect our children as well, and where will that lead us? Into howling chaos, that's where! Our children will see their favorite characters being disobedient and rebellious with no consequence, and it won't be long until they're thinking they can follow their example. If we let them, our children will become just as uncontrollable as the little monsters in this book.
I urge you, if you have children, not to let them read this book. It will do nothing but damage that will take years to undo. All you parents need to do is remind them is that there are people in authority - like yourselves - who know what is right for them. They just have to listen, not question, and obey, not understand.
I just hope that this trend doesn't continue in the next couple of books. Personally, I'd like to see all those kids locked up and that Muggle-hugger Dumbledore thrown off a parapet or something. The sooner Hogwarts comes back under Ministry control, the better everything will be."
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