![]() ![]() 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? Meanwhile, the Night’s Watch, sworn to protect the realm from dangers north of the Wall, dwindle in numbers, even as barbarian forces gather and beings out of legend stalk the Haunted Forest.Amazing story, but a challenge for the narrator Daenerys, the exiled last heir of the former ruling family, nurtures three dragons and seeks a way home. Robb Stark, declared King in the North, battles to avenge his father’s execution and retrieve his sister from Joffrey’s court. Both the dour Stannis and the charismatic Renly Baratheon, Robert’s brothers, also seek the throne. Queen Cersei’s family, the Lannisters, fight to hold it for him. Joffrey, Queen Cersei’s sadistic son, ascends the Iron Throne following the death of Robert Baratheon, the Usurper, who won it in battle. A Clash of Kings is longer and even grimmer, but Martin continues to provide compelling characters in a vividly real world.Ī Clash of Kings depicts the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros in civil war, while the Night’s Watch mounts a reconnaissance to investigate the mysterious people known as wildlings. Martin’s high fantasy weaves a spell sufficient to seduce even those who vowed never to start a doorstopper fantasy series again (the first audiobook – A Game of Thrones ).
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