Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

[tagesmann]

I've created this thread here because other Harry Potter books have been listed under GENERAL FICTION rather than CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS.

I've just listened the audiobook narrated by Stephen Fry. It took me a while to find a Stephen Fry version because the American editions are narrated by Jim Dale. Stephen Fry is a very good reader and I found that all of his characterisations worked for me even if some were not as I expected (having seen the films). This first book in the series lends itself to being read out and I am looking forward to the rest of the series

[David]

It should be here really so I've moved it. There was one other HP thread that needed moving, though interestingly when you search under Rowling two other threads come up in the adult sections that really shouldn't since the posts were merged/deleted. If you click on them you'll see they don't have Quote buttons and indeed I have no moderating options to delete them. How odd. True ghosts in the machine!

[Barblue]

I've just listened the audiobook narrated by Stephen Fry. It took me a while to find a Stephen Fry version because the American editions are narrated by Jim Dale. Stephen Fry is a very good reader and I found that all of his characterisations worked for me even if some were not as I expected (having seen the films). This first book in the series lends itself to being read out and I am looking forward to the rest of the seriesI love Stephen Fry's reading of this whole series. We have been collecting the spoken word versions since the books started to be published. I think to date we have listened to the whole series three time - but it could be four. The only problem we have is that the first five books in our collection are on tape and our car only plays CDs now - although we use a tape walkman and one of those FM transmitters (I think that's what they are called) so that we can hear the tapes through the car's audio system. It's not the most efficient system, so we might treat ourselves to CDs of the earlier books one day.

I actually think Fry's character voices are superb. The Philosopher's Stone may be the weakest since once the films came out, his voice takes on the film characters beautifully.

I have heard part of the Jim Dale version and personally do not like it at all - but then I am totally sold of Fry's version so may be biased on this point.