false 2 111 "There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be walking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? Harry has alot on his mind for this, his fifth year at Hogwarts: A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a big surprise on the Gryffindor quidditch team; and the looming terror of the Ordinary Wizarding Level exams. But all these things pale next to the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named - a threat that neither the magical government nor the authorities at Hogwarts can stop. As the grasp of darkness tightens, Harry must discover the true depth and strength of his friends, the importance of boundless loyalty, and the shocking price of unbearable sacrifice. His fate depends on them all." -from the back cover- 2809203 book 2003 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) total:214452|5:106196|4:69756|3:30503|2:6178|1:1820| 214452 915684 244448 5673 2 0439358078 9780439358071 205969 5065 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255614970m/2.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 5 9 false Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jul 01 12:14:16 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 28 09:54:34 -0800 2009 2 more...]]> 2 0439358078 9780439358071 205969 5065 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255614970m/2.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 1 12 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Jun 28 20:49:07 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 21:40:01 -0700 2007 This is my least favourite of the Harry Potter series, and almost borders on the "don't bother". It is saved only by the virtue that it is a Harry Potter book and moves the series along to the still yet unknown finale.
My issues with it:
- deals with complex social/...more...]]> 2 0439358078 9780439358071 205969 5065 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255614970m/2.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 5 13 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Oct 22 10:14:32 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 10:38:24 -0700 2007
* Harry's outburst to his friends at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. A combination of frustration over being kept in the dark and fear that he will be expelled fuels much of Harry's anger, and it all comes out at once, directly aimed at Ron and Hermione. Rowling perfect...more...]]> 2 0439358078 9780439358071 205969 5065 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255614970m/2.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 5 12 true Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Wed Mar 19 16:52:44 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 27 10:23:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0439358078 9780439358071 205969 5065 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255614970m/2.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 3 6 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Thu May 24 18:37:33 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 13:14:34 -0700 2007
The story is moved along by arbitrary plot devices, of...more...]]> 2 0439358078 9780439358071 205969 5065 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255614970m/2.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 2 4 false Tue Nov 13 13:17:56 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 16:47:18 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 0439358078 9780439358071 205969 5065 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255614970m/2.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 4 5 false Fri May 04 17:29:25 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 17:16:32 -0700 2007
(SPOILER WARNING!!!!)

At 870 pages, it is very laborious to get through this tome when every other...more...]]> 2 0439358078 9780439358071 205969 5065 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255614970m/2.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 5 3 true Sat Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 05 16:42:49 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 16:43:44 -0800 2009 9
See, when I was 12 I re...more...]]> 2 0439358078 9780439358071 205969 5065 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255614970m/2.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 3 2 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 16 12:08:05 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 09:53:59 -0700 2007 more...]]> 77522 043935806X 9780439358064 3483 261 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1241653679m/77522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77522.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 1 2 true Mon Apr 20 08:26:51 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 08:30:23 -0700 2009
This book read like marshmallow fluff cranked out by a money-hungry l...more...]]> 2 0439358078 9780439358071 205969 5065 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255614970m/2.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 4 2 true Thu Oct 30 16:42:54 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 01 17:36:07 -0700 2008 333676 0807220299 9780807220290 170 26 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173832945m/333676.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333676.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 0 1 false Wed Apr 08 17:12:09 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 14:36:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0439358078 9780439358071 205969 5065 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255614970m/2.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 5 2 false Thu Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 12:27:54 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 13:13:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0439358078 9780439358071 205969 5065 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255614970m/2.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 4 1 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 18:18:59 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 18:35:14 -0800 2008
The aspect that I seem to enjoy the most is character development, and I often felt much frustration and angst with Harry. He's most definitely a moody teena...more...]]> 2 0439358078 9780439358071 205969 5065 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255614970m/2.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 5 1 true Sun Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Fri Feb 08 11:13:48 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 11:15:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 861388 0747569401 9780747569404 225 21 4.27 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/861388.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 3 3 false Tue Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 31 06:48:19 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 06:24:31 -0800 2008 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 t...more...]]> 2 0439358078 9780439358071 205969 5065 4.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255614970m/2.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix 4 1 false Mon May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 11 23:30:51 -0800 2008 Mon May 26 15:44:45 -0700 2008 I was really into the first 400 pages of this book--I didn't really think Harry was being overly whiny (which may be a bad sign for my own whiny-ness), and a lot of sort of neat stuff was happening in terms of school and Ministry politics. The Umbridge stuff is rich, I gotta say.

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