Out of curiousity I downloaded the first Harry Potter audiobook in French. I like it only for the fact that it's in French, but otherwise it is very disappointing. The dude's main reading voice is of course just fine. No problems nothing. The problem is his portrayal of many of the characters.
First of all there's Hagrid. He makes Hagrid sound like a complete and total imbecile. Now I'm not saying that Hagrid is supposed to be smart or anything, but he shouldn't take 20 seconds to spit out a few words. And furthermore he makes Hagrid talk something like, "Hagrid like carrot." (although that exactly is not necessarily possible in spoken french, it's of the same character as the way the reader reads Hagrid.) So in any case it makes it annoying to listen to him read Hagrid's parts.
The next voice is Mr Dursley. This one is not so bad as Hagrid's voice, but it is still less than satisfying. First of all, Mr. Dursley is ALWAYS irate, and always basically yelling. Now I can understand him not being happy when talking to Harry, but it does get kind of annoying. Secondly, he sounds more constipated than angry, so that pretty much makes it worse.
The last one I'm going to mention for now is Ron. It took about 20 pages for me to realize this but...HE GAVE RON A LISP!!! What the heck?!? 'Nuff said.
In any case, I'm a bit over a third the way through and I'll post again if I have something else to say about the audiobook.
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And otherwise you won't post at ALL? I feel your pain on the audiobook's voices. I've thought at times of finding books to listen to by reader instead of author--but I'm sure I've already told you that...
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