8 readings
Stephen Fry
We hold 8 readings in this voice, on 236,357 ratings of the narration. Every one of them is rated by enough listeners for us to say where the reading stands. What follows is a record of recordings and not a verdict on a narrator. The stamp belongs to the book, the standing belongs to the reading, and neither of them belongs to Stephen Fry.
Earmark judges books and recordings, never narrators. A verdict says which format deserves your one and only first encounter with a book, so it belongs to the book; where a reading stands is a claim about one recording, measured against every other book on our shelf, and it belongs to that recording. Neither of those is a claim about a working life, so there is no score here for Stephen Fry and there is not going to be one. We also say nothing at all about a reading fewer than 250 people have rated. That bar is published on House Rules, and it is the same bar whether we would be praising a recording or criticising it.
J.K. Rowling · Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and 3 more
The reading we judged the book on · 222,387 ratings
- The reading sits toward the top of our shelf
- 24%In the top 24% of our shelf of books, on the gap between a reading and the book it is reading. The same figure the book’s own page prints for this recording, after allowing for how many people rated it.
This reading holds a place in our Hall of Fame for each of these books, with the figures that earned it: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Our verdict on the run is Listen to it, decided with this reading in front of us.
Douglas Adams
The reading we judged the book on · 13,970 ratings
- The reading sits toward the top of our shelf
- 3%In the top 3% of our shelf of books, on the gap between a reading and the book it is reading. The same figure the book’s own page prints for this recording, after allowing for how many people rated it.
- The performance
- 4.85Audible’s performance score, on 13,970 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.63Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 0.8%107 of 13,995 listeners gave the performance one or two stars.
Our verdict on the book is Listen to it, decided with this reading in front of us.