Sunday, July 31, 2005
Third Time's the Charm
So, yeah. I started Harry Potter 6 again. Eric C. loaned me the audio book version, though, so I get to "read" it that way now. There's still an important clue that I vaguely remembered and wanted to verify, though somehow I missed it entirely on my second (admittedly fast) reading. It's neat to hear Jim Dale reading it, too. He won an award of some sort for his reading of book 5, with something like 134 separate character voices in it. Neat. He does do a good job at that, though I'd say he could use a bit more pitch variation when it comes to the female characters and the kids. Ginny in particular seems to have a surprisingly deep voice for a 15 year old girl. Oh well. It's fun.
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Well, even adult males have lower, middle and upper registers, not to mention falsettos. Sometimes, just the relative range is enough, if not the absolute. There are definitely male readers who, while they might not sound literally like women, are good enough that you don't notice the discrepancy. Richard Matthews (one of my favorites) comes to mind.
But still, Jim Dale is quite good and can do a lot of neat things with his voice. His Hagrid, Snape and Dumbledore, for instance, are great. It's mostly the kids that don't quite work for me.
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