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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
Author : J.K. Rowling
from Listening Library (Audio)
Release Date : 2000-07-08
Sales Rank : 13925
List Price: $69.95 Our Price: $36.75
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Total Customer Reviews : 5186
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) Customer Reviews:
Great
I received this item very quickly, and seeing as I'm with my husband in South Korea, that is a HUGE compliment. I've read all the books before and was very happy to get the chance to complete my own set. My only complaint would be that the pages looked slightly water damaged. They had a small sort of wavy look to them. To me thats not something to get mad about because a book is going to get worn anyways, but I know to some that may seem important to them. Overall I was very happy with my experience with Amazon and with this book.
Harry Potter grows up
In my review of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) I called it a gentle coming-of-age story with a twist of magic. Well, little Harry Potter is growing up. Year 4 of the HP chronicles is when author J. K. Rowling realized that her audience was growing older (adults as well as kids were reading the series intently) and more mature (her young readers were growing up with Harry and company), so she wrote a strong, mature adventure to entertain them all.
And more than entertain - though there is plenty of humor, story, romance, mystery, and adventure here to fill the 700-plus pages. As Harry has grown, the story around him has focused on how to "make a choice between what is right and what is easy," as Dumbledore tells the students in the somber closing pages of Goblet of Fire. It is a lifelong struggle that can be understood by every reader, even (and especially) the older ones.
Also in this year, while the framework of the story still follows the Hogwart's school calendar, Rowling varies from the playbook by introducing the Triwizards Competition, a year-long event involving two other wizard schools that replaces the annual Quidditch tournament. This enables Rowling to expand the cast of students and introduce new friends and antagonists.
She also expands the story outside of Hogwarts by showing Harry and the Weasley's interacting with Muggles and meeting wizards from around the world at the Quidditch World Cup (think soccer's World Cup), which enables us to better understand the context of Harry and Hogwarts and how they intersect with the Muggle world. I suspect there will be more of this in the remaining three books.
So, raise your glasses, to--the Goblet of Fire, the best of the series so far.
The turning point in the series
Everyone (children and adults) loves a great "good vs. evil" story. I often think that something that everyone raves about just can't be as good as the say, but Harry Potter exceeds the reviews.
The incredibly rich detail in all the Harry Potter novels is really the best aspect of the story. JKR creates a whole world that readers can't forget about. There many subplots, but JKR keeps them all straight.
I can't tell you how great all the books in this series are, you'll have to read them for yourself. Harry Potter is the new Star Wars, the new Lord of the Rings. It already is a legend.
The transition book.
The plot here is the weakest of the entire series. The baseline "life at Hogwarts" stuff is still fun, but the rest is a bit forced. As the central book of the series, though, it can almost be taken as a metaphor for the series itself:
The 3 tasks of the Triwizard tournament are effectively a recapitulation of the first 3 books. However, in those books Dumbledore was the one pulling the strings and making sure everything worked out. Here Voldemort is doing the string-pulling, though we don't find that out until the final pages. That reveal is when the world of the series changes from a place where a happy safe ending is guaranteed to something more dangerous and real. It is also a bit of foreshadowing towards book 7 when we understand that even Dumbledore doesn't necessarily have a happy ending in mind for Harry.
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.
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