At times this feels like the kind of literature you should buy by the kilogram, not the book! The other big problem I personally have is the constant brutality dished out by the many random "Sir Knights" - A three year old has "his face smashed in by a morning star" before a similar fate meets his wailing mother. It's as if you've paused a scene in a movie and got someone to describe all the extras in massive detail. Remember "Sir Brentin Waythorpe of house Moon" ? No, well don't worry because even though we'll spend a few paragraphs describing his flags, mail and family tree, he'll have no role in the story and will never be heard of again. The Story There are two or three great characters in these books - Tyrian the Imp for example - but the brief contacts we have with them are interposed with swathes of long winded faux medieval pageantry of one kind or another. Audiobooks are my preference, but I don't know if I can bear more of Dotrice's mangled pronunciations and inappropriate accents. This is not a stand-alone it will make no sense if you read it without already having read "A Game of Thrones", and it contains no resolution, either - so I will have to decide whether, for Book Three, to persist with the flaws in Dotrice's narration or download the Kindle version - I'm really not sure which to choose. The Wars of the Roses, with Magic! And Dragons! If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be? Also his use of accents made no sense - why does Tyrion sound Welsh when Cersei and Jaime speak BBC? - and he obviously found it very difficult to know what to do with the voices of women, which is only to be expected of a reader with such a rich, masculine voice - it would have been an attractive voice to listen to, if not for the above. But some of his pronunciations were infuriating - not just Martin's made up names (Dotrice says "Bry-een" for Brienne and "P'tiah" for Petyr) but common everyday words, like "litchen" for lichen. I recognise what a difficult book this must have been to narrate, with so many different characters, and made up names. What aspect of Roy Dotrice’s performance would you have changed?Įeek. There's a Gothic nastiness about some of it that is missing from Tolkein. I will skip the easy answer of Lord of the Rings (which is not quite true) - I think it is more like Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" crossed with the first two of the Gormenghast books by Mervyn Peake. What other book might you compare A Clash of Kings (Part One) to and why? I'd certainly recommend this to a Game of Thrones fan looking to catch up on the next instalment, but I would not necessarily suggest this is a better option than the hard copy - the narrator has strengths but clearly struggles with some aspects of the text in a way which anyone familiar with these books will find quite irritating. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? R.Amazing story, but a challenge for the narrator The new show starts April 17th so I will attempt to finish the book before it starts!Ī Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. Martin - Tired of waiting for a sequel that may never come? These excellent series have all either finished or have sequels with confirmed dates, ensuring that you won’t be left hanging. One of our librarians created this booklist: If you liked A Feast of Crows by George R. I have to admit to not knowing much about this author besides the fact that his fans are impatiently waiting for the next novel in the series. Of course I had to jump on the computer and “google” around for more information, and-not surprisingly-this show is based on a bestselling novel, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. I was intrigued because it featured medieval costumes, talk about honor, swords, and multiple and seemingly complex plot lines – just what any fantasy fan would want, right? Not to mention I wanted to know who or what these mysterious “white walkers” were everyone kept whispering about. The other day I saw a preview for a new show on HBO called Game of Thrones.
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