Rowling, Performed by Jim DaleHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Fortunately Doyle is summoned back from wherever he’d gone to and takes over from there. Citations:Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. At my house, we listen to audiobooks almost every time we get in the car. I have listened to the Harry Potter audiobooks read by Jim Dale so many times, I have dialogue nearly memorized. So imagine the listener’s dismay to find narrator Michael Healy taking up “ Dead Lions” (Blackstone), the second installment, and proceeding through it in such a pedantic, finicky manner he might be quoting an end-user license agreement. Jim Dale is also the narrator on the new show Pushing Daisies, which is really good. Doyle’s gently sardonic voice complements the series’ black comedy and undercurrent of suppressed anger. If you enjoy hearing a 60+ yr old man attempt to voice a 12 yr old girl then Jim Dale is the way to go. Made up of seven novels and three novellas - beginning with “ Slow Horses"(Blackstone) and ending, for the moment, with “ Slough House” (Recorded Books) - the series follows the deeds and misdeeds of a group of British MI5 losers and bunglers exiled to the feculent offices of Slough House and referred to contemptuously as the “slow horses.” The books - which are in production by Apple TV as a series starring Gary Oldman, Olivia Cooke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce and Jack Lowden - are an exceptionally witty indictment of self-serving politicians and over-mighty intelligence organizations. Aside from the two different narrators, music, and text ) IIRC - Jim Dale makes an effort to 'perform' different voices whereas Fry is doing a more straight reading of the text with less variance between the characters. Gerard Doyle’s narration of Mick Herron’s brilliant Slough House series is an admirable example of unity between voice and story. 15 August, 1935 in Rothwell, Northamptonshire as James Smith) is an English actor, who is the narrator of the American versions of the audiobook editions of.
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