Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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4.5 • 4.7K Ratings
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- $25.99
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'
When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves... But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss...
Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter stories never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new listeners.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
After another terrible summer with his awful aunt and uncle, Harry Potter has returned for his third year at Hogwarts. But it quickly turns out it’s not going to be an easy one—all sorts of strange things are happening in the wizarding world, including notorious murderer Sirius Black’s escape from the infamous Azkaban prison and the rumors that he’s out to get Harry Potter! J.K. Rowling is a master of plotting throughout this increasingly dark tale, dropping in tiny, seemingly insignificant details that end up playing a role in the intensely thrilling finale. Our favorite Harry Potter narrator, English actor and Broadway regular Jim Dale, brings a new level of enchantment to this beloved book. One minute he’s snarling and cackling through a particularly spine-tingling moment, and the next he has us laughing out loud with his dead-on delivery of one of the Weasley brothers’ bad jokes. As much fun as the books are to read, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban shows how the audio versions can cast their own enchanting spell.
Customer Reviews
So real!
The narrator is so cool he does all the voices and it makes it feel so real I almost keep asking it questions and then find out it’s just coming from mommy‘s phone it’s the best book ever!
Wonderful audiobook ruined by ads and laziness
First and foremost: I absolutely love this book. The only thing better than reading it is listening to the stunning performance by Jim Dale. I've listened to the cassette version more times than I can count. I was thrilled when I found out I could finally get a proper digital copy. That being said, this audio product is a disgrace to the format.
I am horrified. Horrified at the thoughtlessness with which this audiobook was published. I cannot believe that this, the official audiobook on iTunes/iBooks sanctioned by Rowling herself, that costs almost $35, has ads. ADS! It's hard to describe the degree to which I hate whoever decided that adding a plug for Audible at the beginning of the book was a good idea. Do they really think I just payed a premium price to hear that the book I know and love is "brought to me by Audible"? No. Just no.
But that pales in comparison to how obnoxious the plugs in the middle of this book are. Apparently Audible takes the liberty of separating the audiobook into multiple parts to "help it download faster" (a ridiculous justification for something that was released in 2015). They also felt the need to explain this with an audio track inserted right in the middle of the book. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? Nothing transports you out of an immersive story faster than a computer-voiced public service announcement about the technological ineptitude of the publisher jammed in between the chapters.
And, speaking of chapters, for my $35 years they couldn't be bothered to split the audio up by chapter (it's broken into arbitrary "tracks"). They couldn't even be bothered to title the tracks properly. They are literally just labeled "Track 1", "Track 2", etc. How is that useful? How am I supposed to navigate the book? It's no better than my old cassettes and that is just infuriatingly lazy.
All in all, It's simply incredible that someone could take a 5-star book with a 5-star audio performance and utterly ruin it into a 1-star product. Lose the shameless ads. Lose the idiotic PSAs. Treat the audio version of this book like the brilliant, masterfully crafted, continuous story that it is.
Shame on everyone who had a hand in producing this needlessly modified digital edition. And shame on me for enabling you with my purchase. I would take it back if I could. I'll be posting this review for all of the audiobooks in the series so nobody falls prey to this without some warning
Oh my lord
Okay so I have to say something. As much as I LOVE the Harry Potter books and would LOVE to listen to them I do not have 35$ plus change and they are ALL this price. I am sorry but that is terrible. I know the Harry Potter books are popular but they are not so popular that you have to price them so high. I had to say this.