Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780545029377
ISBN: 0545029376
Label: Arthur A. Levine Books
Manufacturer: Arthur A. Levine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 784
Publication Date: 2007-07-21
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: 2007-07-21
Studio: Arthur A. Levine Books

Customer Rating:
Summary: Good
Comment: well the book was in pretty good condition. there was some sort of stain on it, but oh well i will live. can't beat the price

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Awesome
Comment: This book was awesome. From the first chapter I was involved. I have loved Harry since the moment I first opened a book. My only thing was, was that I woul have liked more of a story from Voldermorts defeat to 19 years later. We need another book! AWESOME, is the best I can describe.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Loved it!
Comment: I wasn't at all disappointed by the ending of the Harry Potter series. If anything I was even more excited. I loved it and you will too!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: sure racks up the bucks
Comment: thank you, thank you, j.k. rowling, you are the greatest woman on this planet. your books total have brought me so much money...i'm loaded!

and hey, it's good stuff, too, i've flipped through a couple of the books and they seem pretty good. i mean, with all the business i do daily i don't get much time to read, but you gotta give a little time to the best young adult series in the world.

so everyone buy this book now, as well as the other books in the phenomenal series...

from me!!

thanks for shopping.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointing in More Ways than One
Comment: The seventh installment of the Harry Potter series left me feeling high and dry at a time I felt I should have been celebrating. It was the end of an era! My defining childhood literature! And yet Rowling's attempt to bundle her created world into one neat little parcel failed miserably.

Without giving any specifics, I felt that the deviation from Hogwarts did not suit the characters at all. Their 'journey' fell flat in my eyes - a cowardly tactic despite the devastation in the world surrounding. The unbridled skewering of characters left and right seemed reminiscent of a B-grade horror film. A hundred pages in I was afraid Voldemort would be left by the sidelines in favor of much more controllable zombie armies to finish off all of the light side.

Any romance attempting to develop during the story line is utterly lost in the constant movement and action, which turned more boring then battle intense by the end of the novel. The final battle is overly dramatic and missing some vital characteristic that I am still unaware of. And can anyone say hero complex?

But beside all that, I believe the most horrible part of the ending to this generations defining series is the Epilogue. Not only does it attempt to give the next twenty years' worth of history in less than twenty pages, but it was uncalled for. What happened to letting the reader decide what happens? Who needs a pretty bow telling you that so-and-so lived happily ever after with fifteen kids, the end? J.K. Rowling, borrowing one of her favorite lines, completely bulloxed the ending with a few words too many.

In conclusion, steer clear of this book. The only thing that lies here is eight hours of pure disappointment.

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