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SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 at 2:57 PM
Posted by GRAE
Source: iVillage.co.uk via The Leaky Cauldron
If you've never heard Stephen Fry's reading of Harry Potter, or if you're curious about how he sounds on the new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix audio book
, which contains 24 CDs and is scheduled for release on September 22, then you're in luck. iVillage.co.uk has 5 extracts available online for your listening pleasure.
Update: HPANA reader Fang also reminded us that lengthy excerpts from Jim Dale's U.S. version are also available online. Thanks, Fang!
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Points: 363
Hedwig says:
Sounds great! Stephen Fry does a wonderful Hagrid. :)
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 3:11 PM EST
Head Boy
Points: 405
Gandalf says:
He apparently done a very nice work.
Too bad that this is just a taste.
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 3:42 PM EST
Professor
Points: 1068
Penumbra says:
i haven`t heard it so I will as soon as I get home! I`m kind of sleepy right now and in the middle of a biology class.
WOW 24 CDs is a lot that lot won`t come cheap in one of the twins' own words!
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 3:52 PM EST
Metamorphmagus
Points: 37946
tonks black says:
ooo. It sounds good. I wish the movies could come out as fast as the audio tapes.
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 4:18 PM EST
Order of Merlin, 1st Class
Points: 1826
snapelupinfan says:
It's the first time I heard another person read the book than Rufus Beck (he reads the books in Germany). Sounds very good. I agree with Hedwig, he does a great Hagrid. maybe I'll have the chance to listen to an English audio book in the future. Is there any chance to get some parts of the American OotP audio book? I really would like to listen and compare the English and the American version!
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 4:44 PM EST
Transfiguration Professor
Points: 2990
Choralee says:
Very interesting! I really do like Steven Fry's voice. However, as an avid reader, I prefer to read the book son my own, creating the voices for the characters as I go! You know, my own little movie before Warner Brothers makes the real thing!
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 5:07 PM EST
Professor
Points: 1092
quidditch_queen says:
24 CDs? Wow! Sounds great. I've never listen Steven Fry's voice but i would love to.
I would love to have the collection of all the books and i would love to have Steven Fry's voice too! Hahaha. I havent listen to him, but i know he is really good, cause of your opinions so lets see. I will listen the audio book.
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 5:25 PM EST
Chief Brain Washer
Points: 2881
Chogiiiirl says:
Wow, that is a good impression of the characters. However, I'm with Choralee, I prefer to read them on my own, and make up my own characters, putting it together in my mind until the movies come out themselves.
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 5:26 PM EST
Witch
Points: 750
siriusgurl says:
cool cool I haven't listened to the audio thingy but whatever, it's a nice chance to see what we think of it..
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 5:37 PM EST
Witch
Points: 574
Tonks007 says:
Thats cool I love the impressons onetime i could not opens my eyes so i had to listen to books on tape for a month is suked but books like these make it better.
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 5:39 PM EST
Order of Merlin, 2nd Class
Points: 1645
morgana witch says:
I couldn't get it to work, but maybe I'll get to hear the excerpts later. I kind of agree with Choralee about the books. I just don't like to listen to books on tape before I read the books. With the Harry Potter books that isn't a problem though, as I always read them the first day, and the audio books come out quite a long time after that! And 24 CDs is A LOT!!! How many hours is that? Well over a day!
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 6:10 PM EST
Auror
Points: 2773
Alessandra says:
He sounds good, but I prefer the american Dale versions.
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 6:24 PM EST
Order of Merlin, 1st Class
Points: 1856
Rupert Baby says:
Thats awesome i already listened on mugglenet also but it is good to know that HPANA is up on the news, and its great to have the clips so we can preview what we're buying before we actually go out and purchase these overpriced items!
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 6:24 PM EST
Head Boy
Points: 438
hpfan27 says:
I love those clips! Esp. when he did Hagrid!
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 6:57 PM EST
Witch
Points: 979
Butterbeer says:
Dosent so other guy also do one? ot is Fry like the english version?
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 7:36 PM EST
Points: 77
Lily Potter says:
I'm gonna HAVE to buy the audio books!
He sounds so awsome! i have to get it,
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 9:48 PM EST
Points: 927
ChelCho says:
Wow, *five* Cd's that's pretty long. I think I would like to purchase the audiobooks someday...
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 10:44 PM EST
Witch
Points: 684
Malakite says:
Wow, I think I should start buying these on CD. I think my kids would really love them, and I can stop worrying about "dry mouth." Hehehe.
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 11:13 PM EST
Witch
Points: 742
TigerEyez says:
I agree with Tonks Black, if only they could make the movies come out as fast as the audio books. I'm not really an audio book kind of person, so I don't think I would ever buy the CDs.
Posted Sep 16, 2003 at 11:37 PM EST
Auror
Points: 4247
gryfgirl says:
ButterBeer: Yes, Jim Dale also performs the books in English, just the American versions whereas Stephen Fry reads the Brit versions. But there are other narrators in different languages; Bernard Giraudeau does the French ones, but that's the only other one I know off the top of my head.
SurferGurl Rox17: I agree with ya - I think Jim Dale's the better too! :P To me he seems more energetic & enthusiastic and the individual voices are much more distinctive.
Posted Sep 17, 2003 at 12:32 AM EST
Witch
Points: 611
Mdm Rosmerta says:
I understand that there must be an awful lot of Americans on this site, but I really can't stand the fact that the British version of the books and now the audiotapes by a British person gets slagged off. It is not a competition but I do feel that I should defend Stephen Fry - since he is fab and hilariously funny.
Posted Sep 17, 2003 at 3:29 AM EST
Points: 351
Imelda Moonshine says:
24 CDs!wowo, bet his throat was sore after that!
Posted Sep 17, 2003 at 3:37 AM EST
Witch
Points: 917
Slytherin_Punk says:
I was just about to buy the OoTp audio cassettes yesterday. I think its really neat to hear how other people read the books.
Posted Sep 17, 2003 at 8:24 AM EST
Auror
Points: 2289
Snufflesmom says:
He's good, but Jim Dale is the voice of the Harry Potter Series to me.
Posted Sep 17, 2003 at 8:48 AM EST
Prefect
Points: 323
fang says:
I am soooo glad that they have posted these exerpts. As an avid (read obsessed) listener to Jim Dale's (US) versions of the audio tapes which I listen to regulary while driving to work, I was so glad to hear how Mr. Fry reads them. I won't get into the many opinions posters have about who does a better job at interpretation of JKR, from what I heard of Mr. Fry's, they both sound great to me. I do find it very interesting that both Fry and Dale seemed to have picked a characterization of Hagrid and McGonagall that closely resembles Robbie Coltrane and Dame Maggie Smith. It would be interesting to see the thought process in how they both came up with similar voices for those characters as well as whether or not it influenced WB in their choices for the parts in the movies. Anyway, what the exerpts also did was convince me that it would be well worth the expense to have both the US and UK versions of all the books on tape
to all of you who haven't had the pleasure that I have of hearing Jim Dale's versions of the US books or want to compare his choice of voices to Stephen Fry's, you can listen to rather lengthy exerpts from the first 4 books at the follwing link.....enjoy (I do)....fang
http:/randomhouse.com/audio/harrypotter
Posted Sep 17, 2003 at 2:41 PM EST
Supreme Mugwump
Points: 2893
S.P.E.W. fan says:
Why is there a separate version? I'm all for alternate editions, is this a UK or US version?
Posted Sep 17, 2003 at 3:50 PM EST
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