[HPforGrownups] Audiobooks vs. Text (was: Canon, fanfic and other interpretations)

[Shannon Heisey]

No: HPFGUIDX 16585

Hi guys.  I'm behind on email as well.  I have the Jim Dale version of Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and I also have the rest of the books
through Library of Congress, done by one of their readers, and I can
honestly say that Jim Dale does some characters well and others...well,
leave a little to be desired.  Maybe I'm just prejudiced because of the
books I got from the Library of Congress, but that happens.  As someone else
on this list said,  he definitely has the Draco drawl down pat, and I
definitely like the way he does Snape and some of the older women such as
Sprout.  However, I don't see Hagrid having a Scottish accent for some
reason, and I'm not really crazy about the way he tries to do house elf
voices <grin>  But that's me.  I read the other books first, and the guy who
reads them had a lot of different voices.  Even the way he intoned for each
of the characters was different.  I'm not sure what I'll think of the movie,
but I'm sure I will see that too.

Shannon