AUDIO Books (in English)- comparative review

[vheggie at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25720

I have Jim Dale's renditions at the moment, but it was Stephen Fry's 
Boxing Day reading that got me into the series - audio is may 
favourite medium, and when I can afford to completely replace my 
napster copies with the real thing (it's happening, just gradually!) 
I shall do so.
The central difference, I felt, was that Fry read for adults and 
teens, and Dale reads for children; subtle differences (lack of 
singing in Fry's rendition, the already mentioned irritations of 
Hermiones ghastly "Hareeeeee"), but it's simply a matter of personal 
choice.