Stephen Fry's Harry Potter audiobooks

enola/alone

Just got the full Harry Potter audiobooks. Anyone else got them? What you think of them?

karlog

Yeh i downloaded the half blood prince when i was too lazy to read.

There really good. Some people prefer them to reading.

Firetrap

Yea I've got them too. He does a great job of reading them and is easy to listen to. Oddly, for America they get Jim Dale (of Carry On fame) to read the books

deRanged

I think they're great.
One funny thing I noticed was that I had totally missed some of the clever word play in the books till I heard Stephen reading it. e.g. Diagon Alley.

ScribesQuill

I don't own them but I heard an excerpt of one of them and as I suspected Stephen Fry's 'dulcet tones' are perfect for the books!

blubloblu

deRanged wrote: »

I think they're great.
One funny thing I noticed was that I had totally missed some of the clever word play in the books till I heard Stephen reading it. e.g. Diagon Alley.

I never noticed that!

turgon

Anyone care to explain

Karoma

turgon wrote: »

Anyone care to explain

Explain which? Diagon alley...Diagonally?
Why they get Jim Dale to read them? This, I cannot explain. Stephen Fry does a marvellous job.