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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The long-awaited, eagerly anticipated, arguably over-hyped Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has arrived, and the question on the minds of kids,...more
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few weeks ago
my wife plays hermione granger harry's best friend. this is the 6th yr at hogwarts, filled with sex lies drugs and rock and roll. but hogwarts style, sadly this movie received a PG rating too lame for one of the darkest hp books. hermione falls short of her mark in this novel having being overtly emotional and swept off her feet in love, battling emotions/teen angst is the main theme, along...more
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few weeks ago
WHOA. A great divergence from book 5, this one was tightly written, well-plotted, and a gripping read that had me reading from 1 AM to 6. It was enough to put me into tears because of what happened to Dumbledore (a character I thought I didn't particularly like!) and the flight of Snape, whom I adored beyond all reason. Another reason to love this particular addition to the series is the...more
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few weeks ago
Being an avid Slytherin fan, it's not hard to see why this is my favorite book in the series. This book gives the villains of the series a lot more page time than usual and I've come to consider it much like an "Empire Strikes Back" of the books. (Not to mention that the ESB was also my favorite of the SW films/books.) I can understand the pitfalls that people see with this book, but I...more
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few weeks ago
Perhaps there is something wrong with me.
Yes, I know that this author is loved round the world, despite her self-professed dislike of children. Anyoen who reads her books should be able to clearly see how much she dislikes them; deaht, suffering, torture, and sadness strike every character, in every book, and it actually gets WORSE as the story wears on.
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few weeks ago
Man, this book is definitely polarizing. Well, so was the fifth. I've had friends tell me they loved this one, or they could've done without it. Personally, I _liked_ it. I feel that without this book, we wouldn't have known several pieces of important information about Voldemort that is going to aid Harry in his quest to finally bring him down. (Which he is, by the way. Down With...more
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few weeks ago
This book was so much better than book 5, as you get to go into the past life of Tom Riddle /Voldermort, through Dumbledore's pensive, he and Harry travel Scrooge style through his life and learn why he has cheated death, together they set out to destroy these Horcruxes. Meanwhile a challenge has been set for the extremely cocky Draco Malfoy, by Lord Voldemort himself , not realising this is by...more
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few weeks ago
Begrudgingly...Rowling has outdone herself with this one. The execution and story structure were tight...and most importantly CONSISTENT. Consistency has been the biggest issue with her novel up to this point. Finally her craft work has caught up with her imagination. My one complaint still lies with the deplorable use of adverbs in her dialog attribution. This just kills me because her dialog...more
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few weeks ago
When I first read this book, I have to say, I was thoroughly disappointed. This was some of the best, most emotional writing of the entire series, yet the plot was lacking something. It seemed like kind of a filler novel (though I suppose that can only be expected somewhere in a series of seven), meant to help us cross over from the cute, adventurous children's literature we've been reading into...more
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few weeks ago
This book isn’t really my favorite of the first 6, but I still like it. So the note in the fake Horcrux...it has the initials R.A.B. in it...I’m pretty sure it stands for Regulus Arcturus Black (Siruis’ brother). It’s not that hard to figure out...I don’t know why Harry (or even Hermione, being one of the smartest people in the whole series) can’t...more
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few weeks ago
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is great refresher reading before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7). The Harry Potter saga is replete with a growing cast of characters, spells, and magical items and creatures. Most aren't germane to the plot of the following book, but some are, and it's good to get caught up before launching into the final volume. Harry is a full-fledged...more
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  • ISBN-10: 0439786770
  • ISBN-13: 9780439786775
  • ISBN-10: 0439791324
  • ISBN-13: 9780439791328
  • ISBN-10: 0786277459
  • ISBN-13: 9780786277452
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