Dumbledore

The Life and Lies of Hogwarts's Renowned Headmaster: An Unofficial Exploration

De: Irvin Khaytman

Narrado por: Richard Trinder

Duración: 7 h y 9 m

Resumen del Editor

A brilliant investigation into the motivations and methods behind the actions of Hogwarts's renowned Headmaster!

Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, is one of the most recognizable and mysterious figures in the Harry Potter series. As an unscrupulous beetle-like journalist once said, he's "a biographer's dream." Is he omniscient or limited? Is he benevolent or malevolent? What really drove him in the last years of an extraordinary life?

Dumbledore dives between the lines of the Harry Potter books to create a portrait of the controversial Headmaster. We find Dumbledore's hand in every seeming coincidence and consider the impossible decisions he had to make. This in-depth examination from author Irvin Khaytman casts the events of the Harry Potter series in a whole new light, resolving fans' questions that linger to this day.

©2021 Irvin Khaytman (P)2023 Tantor

In-depth

I liked how far down the rabbit hole others have gotten about this series. I hope to find more like this l.

Footnotes annoy

I love Harry Potter so of course I liked this book. I recommend to anybody to put up with mediocre narration and super annoying footnotes read about throughout the book. They are entirely distracting and nearly ruined the experience…for me, at least. Maybe they are required in this time of text or maybe it’s a choice by the author but having footnotes present at the bottom of the page on a book is a lot different than being forced to listen to them as they are read aloud character by character.

Dumbledore deep dive for potter nerds

My wife and I have been falling asleep to HP for 15 years now (Jim Dale of course). I expect we’ve listened to them all as many times as the author has read them. Yet this offered new insights, and ideas.
Certainly worth the $5 if you’re a potter fan looking for a fun, quick listen.
The footnote web addresses being read aloud is annoying, but by the end I was actually laughing at them more than anything. It’s a very random 15 seconds every time. Irksome, yes -but brief.

What a delight

It was genuinely lovely to be back in the wizarding world. What a great story. It reads like a documentary &was so fun to listen to!

Well written and researched!

The listening was easy and fascinating! What threw me off were the recitation of the links in each footnote. Otherwise, it was great!

Great thoughts

I love a deep dive into single subjects. This was as intriguing as ir was magical.

Interesting and informative, but...

The content and narrator are fine, but my only complaint are the lengthy web-sourced footnote citations read aloud

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Thoughtful and Thorough

I've read the Harry Potter books probably 20 times, and I love finding others that are as intrigued by the details and behind the scenes realities as I am. This felt like a chat with dear friends about dear friends, and I'm glad I can add this to my Harry Potter collection.

Great logic and very entertaining

If you love HP, I highly recommend the book. It is very well thought out and expressed, and presented in an interesting and conversational style. While I don’t agree with absolutely every point made in the book, I thought they were all entertaining and generally pretty logical. I loved it. Recommend. (I Think it would have made more sense to save all the references/website citations until the end of the reading for interested parties, but it didn’t bother me personally enough to not thoroughly enjoy the book and reading.)

Jubilant, ecstatic, triumphant… A wonderful, wonderful thing had happened…

That was basically my reaction when I found out this book was coming to audible. Khaytman’s book in regards to the enigmatic Dumbledore is by far one of my favorite “Wizarding World” analysis books (I also own the hardcover as well as the e-book 🤓

Irvin’s book is a most illuminating and intriguing book. I have high respect and admiration for all the work that he (and countless other Harry Potter scholars) did. While using the flat side of a silver dagger, they crush the words of the book and release all the juicy details that Jo had put into these books.

This book is also quite funny at some parts too. I don’t want to spoil anything, but one that always gets me to giggle is a mention of “Dumbledore dangling a carrot in front of Voldemort’s nonexistent nose.” 😌

I’ll leave this review by just saying that if you love Harry Potter and/or psychology/character analysis; you will most enjoy this book…. Especially since Augustus Rookwood will be reading it to you 😉