Re: Harry Potter full cast Audible book

[StabbyCat]

I’m finding it slightly disappointing/annoying.

I understand that when you’re reading a book you have an idea of how people sound. But to a degree, you’re TOLD how they
sound. IE the narration tells you that Bob shouted, or Jane whispered etc.

But in the HP full cast editions, it’ll be things like;

”I’LL KILL YOU!” (actor shouting) and the narrator says “Filch snapped”

hundreds of examples of the actors saying the lines in almost the opposite way than how the narrator describes.

Is this usual for such books?

Also the voice actor they use for Snape is AWFUL. OK I don’t expect an Alan Rickman soundalike but it’s just wrong 😡

This is why I don’t do audiobooks for fiction.
I can only listen to non-fiction audiobooks.

Also certain pronunciations drive me mad - which I know is totally unreasonable but it just irks me to hear tooth pronounced “tuth” tongue pronounced “tong” and worst of all “room” pronounced “rum”

I've never read any Harry Potter books and i'm not interested in them.
But when I came to the end of the Audible book I was listening to the preview that they always have at the end was a Harry Potter book.
It was awful. An absolutely totally ott histrionic performance is the only way I could describe it. I couldn't switch it off quick enough

It is dreadful compared to the proper Stephen Fry ones (but they are gold standard audiobooks)

But surely the point is that they are different from the Stephen Fry ones. It would be a bit pointless if they were just another bloke reading the books. Some people like one version, some like the other.

I have to agree, OP. I was at the HP Experience, here in Vancouver, and they had audio booths to listen to excerpts and I thought it was awful.

I don’t think Stephen Fry’s reading can be bettered, frankly.

May I suggest you don't go to Wales on holiday?

I bloody love an accent. Having grown up at a time where anything official was always in an RP accent, I'm all for having as many regional accents as possible flooding media!

I'm sure there are people that wouldn't enjoy your accent. I'm curious as to what you sound like now 😂

Wait until you meet Madame Pomfrey.

I thought ‘tuth’, ‘tong’ and ‘rum’ (tooth, tongue, room) were a type of English Received Pronunciation? That sort of pronunciation was definitely prevalent in the accent/speech of the posh students at my university in England.

Help me

ETA: As you can probably tell, I’m not from the UK!

I love an accent too, but for some reason certain pronunciation make my teeth itch in audiobooks, the way they wouldn’t IRL. I think it’s largely the stage school way actors read words as opposed to an accent as it doesn’t bother me in podcasts

I'm not an expert in accents by any means, and I've got an uncommon Scottish accent myself. 'Tuth' and 'rum' are definitely said by some (probably not all) Welsh people - think Rob Brydon. That doesn't mean people with other accents don't say them that way too.

Book as buck is v annoying in all the book discuassion progs. I think it’s a London thing -I say boook as am Scottish

Yes why the hell is a bloke doing Madame pomfrey?
and Hagrid sounds like he’s had a lobotomy.

My grandparents pronounced book to rhyme with spook.

So did mine! North Easterners??

why the hell is a bloke doing Madame pomfrey?

The same reason he also voiced the bar keep in the Hogwarts Legacy game I believe - TRA pandering, sticking it to JKR perhaps? They can posture and froth away about their "inclusive" cast, and imagine it would stick in her craw, but I doubt she gives a shiny shit.

I'm not minding them (I say "them" but I'm only on the first book atm). I'm also reading Chamber to DD at the moment so I'm doing a whole set of my own voices on that! Not even going to attempt to embarrass myself trying a Scottish accent for McGonagall.