[HPFGU-OTChatter] Stephen Fry vs Jim Dale - Audio Books

[Julia French]

On 28/03/07, Steve <bboyminn at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> recently the Leaky Cauldron posted some link to Ramdon
> House which has samples of the Audio Books for each of
> the Harry Potter books.
>
> http://www.randomhouse.com/audio/features/harrypotter/
>
> A lot of people have spoken very positively about Jim
> Dale's reading of the book, but I found his cadence,
> inflection, or rythm to be a bit off, especially on his
> dialog.
>
> I mean, he does a good job, he has a clear voice, but
> his dialog just doesn't quite seem to fit the mood.
>
> So, I'm wondering if there are any audio samples of
> Stephen Fry on the Internet anywhere, so I can
> compare them. I did look on the website of the UK
> publisher and also Amazon.ca, but couldn't find any.


There are short samples from several of the books here:

 http://www.webwords.org/clipinfo.php?id=512

I much prefer Stephen Fry to Jim Dale

Julia


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