Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Review

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(More customer reviews)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an unabridged audiobook production of Lewis Carroll's classic children's storybook of a young girl lost in a magical land of fantasy. Read aloud by Grammy and Audie Award-winning performer Jim Dale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a delightful performance that adroitly captures this whimsical spirit of the story. Highly recommended as a giftbook to listeners of all ages, as well as for public library audiobook collections. 3 CDs, 2 hours 57 minutes.

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Harry Potter ~ Audio Cassettes Books 1-5 ~ Review

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(More customer reviews)These are pretty much fantastic. The books are light enough to lend themselves to long, quiet, car trips -- and are even enhanced by to the fantastic reading skills of Jim Dale. Each book you work through you will think, "Man, I hope this guy reads the rest of these books." Luckily he does. His ability to project distinctly different voices, while still reading the material as written, and not simply becoming a dramatic interpretation is phenomenal. This set delivers the goods, and are listenable for adults as much as for kids. (If you love this narrator, and I'm sure you will, check out his absolutely pitch perfect reading of the classic Peter Pan. I had no idea of the power and brilliance of the original book. Sadly, I simply thought of it as a simple little kids book, but in reality is it a poignantly beautiful masterpiece that, like these Harry Potter tapes, will be listened to by your kids over and over. You will not regret the purchase.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) (Audio CD) + free Harry Potter t-shirt (Harry Potter, Book 1) Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm not going to bother with a synopsis for this one since by this point most people have either read the book, seen the movie, or both. This was not my first time reading it, or even second time, but it was my first time listening to it. To avoid fights in the car we always have a book going even for short trips. This was the first time my children had heard this book. After listening we watched the movie again and it was great to see the differences they saw and what they noticed being left out. It really helped reinforce the idea that often times the book is more detailed and interesting than the movie since it doesn't have to fit into a certain amount of time.
There were details I had forgotten since my last reading of this novel and things I looked at differently based on the ultimate outcomes through the series. One of the things I really noticed were details in how Professor Snape treated Harry and acted towards him due to revelations about his feelings for Lily Potter. Seeing that he loved her and hated James I would have thought that his love for Lily would have won out and made him more protective of Harry than he was. That said, while writing this as the first book in the series Rowling may not have made the decision for that love to exist in the future. She never contradicted herself, but it was something I wondered about when reading one of the later books.
My children all really enjoyed this one. At some point I would like to read it with them again from our copy of the book, but I have to say that I am now loving audio books. I haven't listened to one for adults in years, but even the ones for children's chapter books are fun to listen to. i recommend them to anyone going on long trips with their kids or with kids who tend to fight when forced to sit next to each other for prolonged periods of time. Check out you library. Often they have great selections.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) Review

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(More customer reviews)I listened to the audio version of this book, performed by Jim Dale. I rather enjoyed listening to this book. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is by far my favorite book in the series. I love the games in it and the mystery of "who done it".
However, there were several things I did not enjoy about the audio version. The first is that a lot of time the voice the Jim Dale did for Hermione was extremely whinny and I wanted to throttle him/her. It grated on my nerves. On the other side of that is that I really appreciated that pretty much every character had a different voice and I could pretty much know who was talking.
It has probably been 8 years since I read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It was good to remember why it was that I fell in love with this series and this book. The characters are so personable and the mystery and the drama so great. I love the details. I love how J.K. Rowling has the ability to draw us all into the world that she created.
I always wished that I was magical after reading a Harry Potter book. I love Hogwarts and I love the characters. I have to admit that if I were sorted, I would probably end up in Slytherin. I definitely usually prefer the "dark characters" to the "good characters". Admittedly this review is a bit jaded because I am listening to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix right now and it is this book where I came to despise the character of Harry Potter. Anyway, that is for another review another day.
So, what are your thoughts on the Harry Potter series? Who is your favorite character(s) (mine are Snape, Draco, and Dumbledore). Have you listened to the audio version? What is your thoughts on it? I look forward to hearing from you!
Rating: 5/5 because seriously, it is Harry Potter and this book saved me when I was 13, almost literally.

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