HP audio book review

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 5645

In tomorrows Washington Post Book World, there is an article about 
what audio books to listen to.  It reviews new audio tapes, mostly of 
out of print books, and also has a paragraph about the HP tapes.  The 
review is by Katherine A. Powers, who is a columnist for the Boston 
Globe.  Here is the paragraph:

>>>In any case, I could see hours of happy motoring with my children 
were we equipped with [another book she reviews]...Still, we've had 
other happy, almost bickerless trips listening to J.K. Rowling's 
Harry Potterbooks.  Through certainly not out of prins, nor likely to 
be for a long, long, time, they are almost, if not actually, better 
in audio form; al least this is true of Jim Dale's reading of the 
novels for Listening Library.  He has a voice and manner for the 
character that smplify their crtochets without distorting them.  The 
Dursleys are as self-righteous and devoid of charity as so many bowls 
of cold porridge; Professor McGonagall is infused with Caledonian 
brusqueness; Draco Malfoy's snobbish drawl drips venom, Snape seethes 
with all the bitter menace of the Sheriff of Nottingham.  In Hagrid, 
Dale give us stout-hearted yokel tones; in Hermione Granger, bossy, 
bossy, dictates; in Harry, limber youth tinged with a little of the 
hobbledehoy.<<<

Personally, I think this is a stupid review.  What kind of analogy is 
*self-righteous and devoid of charity as so many bowls of cold 
porridge*.  And where does she get off calling Harry *tinged with a 
little of the hobbledehoy*?  And, IMHO, Jim Dales Hermione is more 
whiny than bossy.

--Joywitch