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By: tim from Radio Clash

tim from Radio Clash — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:02:21 +0000

Jim Dale? Of Carry On fame?

How odd.

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Episode 040: Meta-Mathic Smackdown | Bad Philosophy — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:40:05 +0000

[...] YouTube reviewer Kevin Saunders. If this were a book, it’d be a genuine page-turner. But you read with your ears, right? Of course you do. So have a [...]

By: asmariamoon

asmariamoon — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:26:04 +0000

I remember my friend had all of the books (hardcover editions) and all of the audio books. I loved the way the guy in the audio books (pretty sure it was Jim Dale, from everyone's descriptions, I never actually looked) was able to have a different voice for each character, as well as getting all the emotional stuff down perfectly. I'm such a bad fangirl right now, I only have the seventh book in hardcover, and the first one in softcover. The good news is that I picked up The Tales Of Beedle the Bard last week. My favorite part is in Dumbledore's notes on The Wizard and the Hopping Pot, where he wrote about how it was rewritten by Beatrix Bloxam, along with many of Beedle's other tales, to be "more suitable for children":

"Mrs. Bloxam's tale has met the same response from generations of Wizarding children: uncontrollable retching, followed by an immediate demand to have the book taken from them and mashed into a pulp."

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Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:47:14 +0000

[...] that I’m done with the whole Harry Potter series, I feel a little empty. Like I’ve learned everything there is no know and life poses no more [...]

By: red

red — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:28:37 +0000

Agreed; My policy is to either read a book OR see the movie, but not both. Pert of the reason I haven't seen or read I Am Legend… can't decide which media to visit.

By: ticknart

ticknart — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:54:43 +0000

The Harry Potter movies are the reason why I stopped reading, or re-reading, books before seeing the movies made out of them. It's a lot easier to enjoy the goodness of the films if the plot of the books aren't on my mind

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:28:15 +0000

Audiobooks rule. I read them almost every day on the train for my commute to work. Harry Potter was my Gateway book.

By: King Zilch

King Zilch — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:49:45 +0000

Having read all the books first, what's weird is how my perceptions change with the movie. Goblet of Fire (Book 4) is my favorite of the books, because it does the best job of illustrating its themes of responsibility and inevitability. But the movie is just a big, loud mess, with plotlines that no longer make sense because of all the cuts. (and way too little David Tennant)

The next one, Order Of The Phoenix, is my least favorite book, because it just feels like a bridge between the heavy plot machinations of books 4 and 6. But it's my favorite of the movies, for the same reason GoF is my favorite book.

I'm so jazzed for the two Deathly Hallows movies!

By: Steve the Pocket

Steve the Pocket — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:17:42 +0000

All this and I'm just left wondering what a banjo crossed with vacuum cleaner parts would sound like. Kind of like, did you ever see that episode of "The Magic School Bus" where Carlos invents that weird instrument? That's the sort of contraption I'm picturing.

By: ThunderingBlurb

ThunderingBlurb — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:16:52 +0000

Ok so this will get me stoned here but even with it's flaws I liekd HP3. It was better than the crammed with everythign but the sink yet stil incoherent first two.

At some point I just stopped expecting them to adhere to the books – the movies (any movie) is going o be different fro mthe books. The HP movies are flawed, but I think less cluttered and distracting as the series has gone on.

BTW – Audio books or paper books – it's all inhaling awesome literature.