(legally) is usually a pretty big pain in the butt. I will say, however, that getting the Stephen Fry versions in the U.S. Which is better? I won’t get into that - that’s something the internet has been arguing about for a decade+ now. The version most widely available in the U.S. (If only I could splash out for the big, beautiful boxed set published by Bloomsbury.If you’ve ever tried to buy the Harry Potter audiobooks, you probably noticed something kind of tricky: there are two very different versions. I adore Stephen Fry and his plummy tones and can't WAIT to get my hands on the books.
He DOES hold the Guiness Book of Records for the most number of voices, but if you get too far into supporting characters, I find that they all start sounding like Hagrid. I really do think Jim Dale is lovely, but I do see the merit in the opinion that his voice can be a bit sonorously dull. Is there a British equivalent of Half Price Books, or even Costco (big box/discount store)? I really want the SF versions, but the libraries that own them would not lend through Interlibrary Loan (this lending program is being cancelled due to lack of funding anyway).
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While I would love to pay full price, I simply cannot. As they are in England, I feel he gives Scottish/Irish accents to a lot of characters, and I'm not sure if he's basing that on their names or he just likes to try and vary it, but it kind of takes me out of a chapter when he reads for certain people.ĭoes anyone have suggestions for getting the Stephen Fry versions more cheaply? Here is Amazon's page: Sorry to rant, this has been a huge issue as I am really into audio books now, when I'm at work, and as I love HP I just had to share.
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Because some of his men voices are a little indistinguishable like Mundungus and Hagrid to name a few, and I don't like the way he reads for Draco, I keep thinking of The Great Mouse Detective movie and the song The World's Greatest Criminal Mind.īut back to Hermoine, he elongates way too many of her words, I especially hate how she says Harry!!! But he does do this with other characters, but especially her, she sounds like she has no backbone and as others have pointed out, she just seems like such a whiner and I didn't get that from the books, yes she may be a tad emotional, who isn't, but he doesn't even accurately read to her emotions! Or anyone's emotions for that matter.
He makes all the girls sound like idiots and it has nothing to do with the fact that he's a man. I thought it was because I started with the movies, then the books. I have been at work listening to Jim Dale b/c I haven't been able to find Stephen Fry just yet, but if it wasn't for my obsession w/ Harry Potter, I wouldn't be able to endure it! I don't want to go so far as to say that it's horrible, but I cannot stand the majority of his voices, especially Hermoine. (I felt he needed more defenders in this thread!) to summarise, I'm slightly in favour of Stephen. Dumbledoreyness that Rowling wrote into the character. Fry's Dumbledore gives off the sense warmth, deep intellect, wisdom, age balanced with inner youth and great strength and. Neither of the film actors have quite pinned down the man for me and Dale's Dumbledore sounds like a strong breeze would knock him over. Oh and Fry's Dumbledore IS the quintessential interpretation of the character. Any Harry Potter fan who hasn't sampled Stephen Fry owes it to themselves to, it's stellar. I haven't heard of anyone raised on Fry who listened to Dale after and was converted, but I've encountered many people accustomed to Dale who much preferred Fry's reading after trying.
Fry also has this uncanny ability to create the perfect voice for every character, but he also really excels in the non-speech parts of the book. With Dale I'm always aware that I'm listening to an audiobook, whereas Fry creates such distinctive characters and describes the magical world so vividly and colourfully that listening to him is a deeply immersive experience. Dale is great, but I find Dale's reading is a little monotonous and his voices all sound vaguely similar. His reading is so much more impassioned, he injects so much more energy into the words and really brings the story to life. It might be a cultural difference (I'm a Londoner so was raised on Fry) but to me and every one of my Potter-geek friends, Stephen Fry IS Harry Potter.
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