British DH audiobook to be released July 21st
Bloomsbury has just announced that for the first time the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows audiobook, read by Stephen Fry, will be released at the same time as the book (July 21st). Click here to hear Fry's message about this (containing a possible clue?), and here to see a promotional image of Fry along with Jo Rowling.Here are some other interesting (random) facts about this audiobook:
-Listening time for the DH audio edition is 24 hours and 1 minute
-The audio editions of the Harry Potter books have now sold over a million copies.
-Stephen Fry has spent a total of 38 days in the studio recording all seven Harry Potter books
-Stephen Fry has voices for over 170 characters from the books
-In the same time as it takes to listen to all seven audiobooks you could go to the moon, and still have nearly a day left over to look around, or listen to a Harry Potter book, once you got there.
-In the same time as it takes to listen to the Deathly Hallows audiobook, you could:
· Fly from London to Sydney, Australia
· Run the men’s 100 metres world record 8800 times
· Play 16 football matches
· Listen to Queen’s ‘It’s a kind of magic’ 330 times
· Watch The Wizard of Oz 14 times
Posted by Ciaran on Jun 29th |
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Great to hear about it, though it doesn't matter to me. I'll have finished the book thrice before I listen to one audiobook from start to end. Though, most of the "facts" about the audiobooks seem to hve been made up using a calculator--not very "Potterish" they are..
Hey what if that sleeping dragon is guarding the treasure that they seem to have found in the cover of the kids British edition?!?!?!? In the cover they have burn marks and if you look behind them theres fire.......I think that the quote means not to tickle the sleeping dragon that is guarding the treasure. what do you guys about this^^^^
I can't believe it, somebody said that he doesn't know why would there be a dragon beneath Hogwarts. And i ask you now, WHAT if Voldemort comes to Hogwarts and Dumbledore is gone? The dragon is for protection. Hogwarts is older than Dumbledore and it has some kind of protection even Dumbledore or Voldemort don't know how to manage. So Hogwarts is now at peace and the dragon is sleaping, but if Voldemort comes and attacks Hogwarts he will ''tickle'' the dragon. The dragon will awake and Voldemort will regret he came to Hogwarts one final time. Do you really believe Hogwarts could survive trough history without any protection except the staff. IF so the school is extremly easy to capture. And remember when Hagrid says that Gringotts is the safest place to hide something, except maybe Hogwarts. So if Gringotts has dragons and Hogwarts is even better protected why not Hogwarts???!!!
I love Stphen Fry he's brilliant, I dont have the audio books simply because i love reading so much but from the bits i have heard over the years he is fabulous and as i've just got a new baby cousin (the son of the aunt who gave me the first two books as a present for my 12th birthday back in 1999) it's great to know i can introduce him to Harry Potter even earlier and be confident he'll be listening to a brilliant rendition :)
HAVE THEY LOST THEIR MINDS!!!!!????? Jim Dale has "performed" all 6 books. He has won a massive amount of awards for his presentation of these books. He has hundreds of voices so distinct that you know who the character is without saying "Harry said" or " Ginny said". I have all 6 of the audio books and the paper books. I have gotten many of my friends "hooked" on the audio book. We all have a long comute to work every day and we have all listened to these books multiple times. I am extremely disappointed that J.K. would allow this change after Jim Dale has done such a wonderful job on the prior 6 books.
Stephen Fry does the British and Jim Dale the American audiobooks, morron.
What's with the bird in the picture? anyway, that stuff about Queen and stuff is funny! :P'
Ahhh, Stephen Fry....brain the size of a planet....a voice like warm honey......and as camp as a row of tents!! I love him! I want to adopt him!
Stephen Fry is hilarious and JK has had great respect for him even before she was a world famous writer. Any of you Americans heard of the massively succesful, Blackadder comedy series? That's just one of the thins he's done; check it out! The comedy quiz show, QI with rounds of questions called "General Ignorance", etc and with guest teams of the UKs funniest, is also worth catching. :)
24 HOURS! My gosh! Well, a certain Starbcuks is definently going to get a little wealthier.
This is in response to Slorf's comment to my posting about Jim Dale. It must be nice to be perfect and all knowing......I had no idea that they realeased 2 seperate audio books....what's the point???? Try being nice next time you reply.
OMG! Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon! There's a dragon on the U.S. special edition! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!! So what happens if u do 'tickle a sleeping dragon'? And don't we know someone else named Draco out there... I'll give u a hint...He Managed 2 fix the vanishing cabinet? I guess he's a better wizard then we thought! Oh yeh... couldn't he just say Repairo? Oh well, I guess that doesn't always work! But yeh... AAAAAHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
first of all moonywormtailpadfootprong s: the definition of Draco is; whoever has this name is gay and will join Voldemort. second of all: STOP PMSING!!!!!
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I just ordered it, and apparently with express delivery I get it the day before publication. Who reckons this is a mistake? ******** Fro m Amazon.co.uk's e-mail to me: Dispatch estimate for these items: 19 Jul 2007 Delivery estimate: 20 Jul 2007 1 "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) [Children's Edition] (Harry Potter Audio Book)" J. K. Rowling; Audio CD; £37.47
oooh Stephen Fry is so cool SO COOL!
umm, first time both released at the same time, i got the HBP audio book at 12:01 along with the actual book..
NO JIM DALE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOO!!!!!!!! he's amazing! he's brilliant! he's so good! i don't care who stephen fry is, jim dale will always be better than him!!!! why do this on the last book!!! i curse you stephen fry..............
STEPHEN FRYYYY. ::fanspazzes:: I wonder how that could pertain to book 7. Anything to do ith the Dragon from the deluxe cover?
lol! never tickle a sleeping dragon...hm. no idea, really. dont know if or how it could connect to the cover of the american specail edition of DH..?
Is that the same guy that does all of them?
Love the Wizard of Oz one!!
Interesting voice. Is it available in asia.
Wait just a minute....are you telling me people DONT listen to Queenâs âItâs a kind of magicâ 330 times??! I'm doing it right now. :) Go Stephen Fry. He gets to know the story before everyone else. He has the best job ever.
AccioRon Never insult Stephen Fry!... and certainly don't curse him. You'll have a lot of angry and very unhappy people if you do, me being one of them :P He's incredible! Jim Dale will still be reading the American version so don't worry. Also check out Stephen's work.....QI, Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster and his books so you can be enlightened :)
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