Right? Dale is more of a character actor / “voice artist,” with more over-the-top exaggeration. Rachel: I am with you on that, and the comparison that kept running through my head was Christopher Nolan’s Batman versus Tim Burton’s Batman. This is also invaluable as the books themselves get longer and deeper and darker. Partially, it’s because he has a deeper voice and a sense of how to slow down and lend an ominous quality to certain passages. For one thing, I think he has a gravitas about his reading. Peter: I’m willing to call Stephen Fry’s readings superior for various reasons. Rachel: I think I gotta stay with my boy Jim Dale, and I’m loving how in-it-to-win-it you are for Stephen Fry.
Which horse are you putting your money on? (Or are you going for both? And how much longer can I sustain horse-racing metaphors, about which I know zilch?) I am prepared to go to the mat over this one. Today, Peter Damien and Rachel Smalter Hall weigh in to declare an ultimate winner in the Book Riot Battle of the Harry Potter audiobooks narrators. Stephen Fry narrates the Harry Potter audiobooks sold in the UK, and Jim Dale narrates the version sold in the USA, and the internets are EXTREMELY divided over who does it better. Jim Dale.īoth have narrated all seven Harry Potter books, like Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix, both are beloved British actors, and both have been trolled by angry YouTube commenters. When it comes to Harry Potter audiobooks, the most epic rivalry is Stephen Fry vs. She co-runs a boozy book club in Lawrence, Kansas, in her spare time. Two of her top three loves include audiobooks and knitting, and her favorite song is Cold Hearted Snake as performed by Alyssa Edwards and Coco Montrese on season 5 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Rachel Smalter Hall may be a professional Book Rioter, but she still hangs out in the public librarian clubhouse.
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