HP on Audio: Dale v. Fry Taste Test

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 17782

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Haggridd wrote:
> 
> > As I get further into the canon as read by Fry, I will report 
again,
> > unless the response to this report is overwhelmingly negative.
> 
> No! No! Please do. I can't really afford either one (nor do I have 
the
> capability to play them, anyway, at the moment), but I lean toward 
Fry
> just from (a) the snippet I heard online someplace, (b) the fact 
that I
> have not liked Jim Dale from way, way back in a Disney movie (Pete's
> Dragon?), and (c) I want a reading, not an interpretation.
> 
> Very few of us actually have both and have listened to both. Pray
> continue.
> 
> --Amanda

> 
But Fry is equally engaging in interpretation as is Dale.  He is not 
simply reading the books. That became clear early on.  The question is 
whether the differences are merely matters of degree, or  are there 
substantive differences in the presentation of the dialogues that are 
done more intuitively by one or the other.

Haggridd> 
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