Mejor que el narrador en Inglés

Tengo todos los audios en Inglés y empecé a adquirir los de español para mi mamá, grata sorpresa fue descubrir que este narrador es mucho, pero mucho mejor que la versión en Inglés al cual tolero solo porque es HP. La espera por los siguientes libros me está matando

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great listening experience

i have been binging these audiobooks for the past month. Carlos ponce's voices are spot on. these books are great for learning Spanish. I'm looking forward to the next ones.

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Solo estoy aquí para mejorar mi español pero....

Me encanta la voz de Carlos Ponce, es como el castellano de mi padre. Su capacidad para utilizar tantas maneras para hablar es asombrosa. Yo puedo entender cada palabra de él tan fácilmente.

Claro que si, es Harry Potter, y vamos a compartir estos libros con nuestros hijos y nuestros nietos, pero creo que puedo caminar en el mundo de Harry Potter en maneras no podía con el texto con estos audiolibros.

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Lupin y Black are the best

Definitivamente este siempre será mi libro favorito de la saga 😍 el giro que da la historia en esos últimos 5 capítulos te mantienen en una montaña rusa 🤭

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Miriam

He visto la película muchas veces pero escucharlo me ha encantado la interpretación de Sr. Carlos es inolvidable ...

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Mi hermana y yo lo amamos

Se agradece el esfuerzo que pone el narrador con las voces de los personajes, lo hace muy bien y la historia es magnífica, mi libro favorito hasta ahora.

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Un lindo libro en la historia

Esta es una de mis historias favoritas de la saga y con la voz de Ponce aun mas. Varios matices.

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Great story+translation, mediocre production

This review is essentially the same as my reviews for the other Carlos Ponce audiobooks currently available.
The story is wonderful. I have PoA among my top 3 favorites from the series (4, 6, 3, 1, 2, 7, 5 don't @ me)

I'm approaching these audiobooks as a native English speaker and learner of Spanish. As a learning aid, I 100% recommend these audiobooks--the narration+accent is clear and comprehensible. I did the same when learning German (using the absolutely amazing Rufus Beck audiobooks from Audible) and got great results.

I've marked the performance down for a couple of reasons. First, Carlos Ponce does a great job with character voices, and puts good energy into his delivery, but tends to deliver almost all dialogue the same. I mean, if there's one thing J.K. Rowling is known for as an author, it's adverbs--every single piece of dialogue comes with instructions, so to speak. But whether Filch "screamed" or Hermione "whispered" or Dumbledore said "calmly", Ponce delivers them all roughly the same.

My second problem might not lie with Ponce, but with the production: the text is barely given any time to breathe. Scene changes within chapters (something happens, then we transition to our heroes discussing it in the Common Room or whatever) receive absolutely no pause/signaling, which can be really jarring. Momentous or climactic events are not read or edited dramatically, but almost rushed through. Much of the last 90 minutes of the book (Dementor attack/Time Turner rescue) can be hard to follow because big moments and powerful lines aren't allowed time to land. This might be on Ponce as the narrator, but (along with the same-y dialogue) it feels like a lack of production/preparation--like they handed Ponce the book and had him do it all in roughly one take, without allowing him to get a feel for the rhythm of the text.

This stuff might sound like nit-picking, but it's at the core of what separates good oral story-telling from great oral story-telling. Without the text in front of us, we are reliant on the narrator to give us a sense of when tension is rising or falling, and where the narrative climax falls. This isn't just for entertainment, but to actually make sense of the events as they happen. The Pottermore/Rufus Beck German editions of these books do a phenomenal job of this.

Overall, while I enjoyed this audiobook, it could have been a lot better.
Also, tiniest nitpick, but Ponce makes Sirius sound like a goblin in this book. Weird.

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buenisimo

muy buen lector super buen libro a mis hijos y ami nos encantaaaaaa
super bueno

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Maravillosa saga

No me canso de oírla. JK Rowling se lució. Para mí es la mejor saga que existe