[HPforGrownups] Over Fry, Over Dale, As they read us Potter's tale!

[anna jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 35246

hello fellow grownups!
so glad to have found this group (i was beginning to
think I was  the only one out there . . .)

anyhow, considering the fact that I first "read" HP by
listening to Jim Dale, I just had to respond to this.

My son got the books like the rest of the world and
then purchased the cd's with his own birthday money. I
decided listening to them was a good way of me filling
in the blanks from when I read a few chapters to him
and my daughter; I WAS HOOKED!
I just can't say enough about Jim Dale! He deserves an
award for keeping all the characterizations consistant
throughout all four books.
Not to say that I wouldn't want to listen to "Fry",
but honestly I wasn't aware that there even was
another audio version.  I have only seen the "Jim
Dale" version.
Where does one get the "Fry" version and what is
his/her full name?
anna

--- Whirdy at aol.com wrote:
> Having invested in both the Dale and the Fry
> renditions I have decided to 
> undertake listening to Dale read SS while I scan
> along with PS and listening 
> to Fry read PS while I scan SS and so on for the
> rest of the Potterverse.
> 
> Only then will I be sure that I have found all of
> the Englican/Amerish 
> substitutions that some well meaning but deluded
> editors believed necessary.
> 
> I would suggest, however, that whichever version one
> might chose to buy, the 
> listener will not be disappointed.  He or she will
> surely learn something 
> that was missed in their own reading and gain some
> enjoyment and insight.
> 
> In this day of the TV and instant messages one
> forgets the power, mystery and 
> thrill of hearing a story teller weave magic with
> the human voice.  Now if 
> only we were at the edge of the Forbidden Forest
> sitting toasting 
> marshmallows in that magic blue fire  and listening
> . . .
> 
> whirdy
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 


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