From: Spirit <spiritworker2001>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:51:00 -0700 (PDT)

My son has an interesting take on this. He has vast expereince with audio, since he's visually/motorically impaired, and has been reading via tape/cd for 20+ years. Also an avid fantasy fan and in May of this year, a published fantasy author <beam>--

He has both versions, and prefers the British versions overall; however, he said he enjoys the Jim Dale narration in the earlier books, when the children are younger, and the humor more steady. He chooses the Stephen Fry versions beginning with Order of the Phoenix, and won't listen at all to Jim Dale's Half-Blood Prince or Deathly Hallows, because the voices seem too cartoonish for the age of the characters and the severity and seriousness of the situations. He feels Fry brings a gravity to the later books that they need in narration, due to the darkness of the pieces.
? So, for him it isn't either/or, but based more in the book itself, and the tone he wants from the narrator.
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? Susan Vaught www.susanvaught.com
Received on Mon 13 Apr 2009 03:51:00 PM CDT