Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (2003, Unabridged, Audio Cassette)

I REALLY ENJOY THE HARRY POTTER SERIES I'VE READ ALL 6 OF THEM. I DECIDED TO TRY THE AUDIOBOOKS A FEW YEARS AGO. JIM DALE WHO DOES THE READING GIVES A PERFORMANCE IN THESE BOOKS.

THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX REALLY STARTS TAKING YOU TO THE DARKER SIDE OF THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS. EACH BOOK IN ITSELF IS A JOURNEY, WITH A VERY CREDIBLE, HERO.

Great story. It was long for kids to read but they enjoyed it and so did I... Writing was excellent, exciting with alot of action happening...

Year five at Hogwarts brings more answers to the puzzle between Voldemort and Harry. With the whole magical world doubting the character and truthfulness of Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore, Voldemort and his Death Eaters move in secret for something they didn't have in the last war. This book has tons of twists and turns including an evil D.A.D.A. teacher, Ron earning a spot on the house quittich team, and the flight of Fred and George. The Audio book is again read by Jim Dale who does a super job giving each character a distinctly different and believable voice. You forget it's just one person reading the whole time, an amazing effort. The story is emotional charged and will have you on the edge of your seat through out. Book 5 is from start to finish arguably the best in the series.

Hearing the book makes the characters so real. Being cassette made it difficult as not all of my vehicles have cassettes! Love to listen to this on my way to and from work. Any Harry Potter fan, no matter if you have read the book on your own should listen to this talented voice or should I say voices!

I purchased this book because I am reading the series and I do love this as much as I loved the others. It is really wonderful. Just love the characters and all the different things they all deal with together.

I`m not a person of many words, but I can say this is a great product, a very good purchase and I believe anyone who buy these audio cassettes will enjoy it as I do. I bought it cause I wanted to know how would it be to change one of the Harry Potter`s books from reading to listening and was very good. So I think can recommend this product to any fan of this series of films and books.

WE love the tapes and are happy to have such a quick delivery - 2 days! My son was excited to follow the process on Ebay to a quick reward.

I like the series but at times the books are tedious so maybe the audiobook will help with keeping my focus from strayin at the less intriguing parts of the book

loved it! the characters were original in imagination. the whole plot
was fantasy with the author having an incredible imagination.

This is a great story, and will interest young and old alike. JK Rowling captures the interest with her writing, and Jim Dale has a wonderful voice, which makes the story come alive. I would recommend this to anyone 6-96.

I am getting to drive to Florida and need something to listen to. I really like Harry Potter books. Thank you

My son has to read AR books,for school and hates it, but with these audio books, it can be read to him, with personality, and he can bring up his grades!

I love having the story read to me. That is why I bought it. I would prefer to have CD's but tapes work. I am able to shut my eyes and see the story as it is read.

This is one of my favorite books of the series. This is Harry's "coming of age" book. This is where we learn who Harry really is and what the connection of Lord Voldemort is. I recommend this book to anyone.

product arrived in good conditon and promptly-was pleasantly surprised at how fast it arrived the ptoduct sells for over 50.00 in the stores and i was very very happy with the price

My daughter has been listening to the books on tape and enjoys them. It was definately a bargin to purchase this one for her to listen to. It was in excellent condition and I will be looking for the next in the series for her.

I love hearing the characters come to life and listening to the sounds when experiencing a book on tape. The Harry Potter series is fabulously done in this way.

This has added a new dimmension to the books. They have facts that are not covered in the book. Any Harry Potter fan would love it, these add to the experience. I bought becuase I had received some other books on tape and enjoyed them.

I was very satisfied with my purchase. It came promptly and was as described. I would buy from this seller again.

Excellent, fast delivery arrived in three days and product was exactly as stated by Seller. I would definitely buy from this Seller again.

I purchased the Harry Potter tapes rather than the CDs - quite a difference in price and the quality was every bit as good as the CDs. They arrived factory sealed in excellent condition. Although tapes are slightly less convenient than listening with an ipod, the quality was every bit as good. No flaws in any of the 17 tapes. Good purchase, particularly at the price requested.

This was the only book in the Harry Potter Series that I would not rate Excellent. I feel that she finally fell into the "middle book funk" that plagues so many other book writers and movie producers.

My theory on avoiding the "funk" is to provide the characters a few clues they can work for and give them some small victories to show they are at least making progress for their pain. It worked in JK's other books, so why she chose to change her formula here is beyond me. The only "victory" won here is that the wizarding community finally knows Voldermort is back. Small consolation, since those that can do anything about it (the Order of the Pheonix) already believed Harry.

The Mininstry of Magic, in an attempt to keep Harry Potter quiet, assign Delores Umbridge to the school. I would call Umbridge worse than Voldermort in many respects. Voldermort kills for the pleasure of killing, but is generally quick and painless about it. Once he sees the fear in his victim's eyes, he is satisfied and finishes them off. Torture is used to either get information from his victim or to make a point to his underlings. Inflicting pain for sport was something his underlings did.

Although Umbridge is never specifically mentioned as being a Death Eater, loves to leave people in perpetual misery. In particular, she bans Harry Potter (and the Weasley twins) from Quiddich and locks their brooms up. She also has a magic pen that, when used, prints the words in blood on the paper and etches the words on the writer's hand. These scars remain on Harry at least to the end of the 7th book. Just to keep people on edge between these major attacks, she produces an endless array of Ministry approved prohibitions and takes it upon herself to micromanage every teacher in Hogwarts. She threatened firing just about every staff member at Hogwarts at one time or another, except for Filtch (who loves her changes).

What Voldermort and Umbridge do have in common is a desire to impress their idea of a perfect society on others. The fact that their ideals are based on the genetic makeup of people, and therefore impossible to change, does not phase them at all. The obvious solution is to banish or kill those who don't measure up.

But this evil is not why I gave this book a low rating. The heroes, Harry in particular, never fully grasp what what is happening and are completely unable to stop it. Figuratively speaking, they are little more than test dummies and take whatever is given to them.

There were only two times that Harry and Co took a stand and the both backfired disasterously (three if you count the Weasley twins revenge, but that was short lived and had no lasting affect). The first was when Harry formed Dumbledore's Army, which resulted in Dumbledore being fired. The second was when Harry rushed to save Sirious Black from Voldermort. I won't say how that one ended for the sake of those that haven't read it yet, but suffice to say it caused the only regret Harry had in any of the seven books.

There is a difference between suffering and sacrafice, and this book was all suffering. No good came out of what Harry went through, either in this book or the sequels. However, in order to get the full effect of her last two Harry Potter books (which I think are the best in the series), reading this book is a must.

John Holland-author of The Necklace of Terrersylvanous

It is a good product. I have no complaints! I bought the tapes for my son. I would recommend it to those parents who want to motivate their children to read more. The children can read as they hear the tapes.