His voice is excellent for reading the back story. You find yourself lost in the story till it comes time to narrate a female part. Then he snaps you out of it like being awakened from a sleep by a power saw in your bedroom. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? Just finishing up book 2. Already bought book 3. I'm excited about the series and will be more than ready to move on after book 3.
Regardless of how it leaves me hanging. Roy Dotrice again, simply great at what he does The twists and turns in the book is simply great and I am loving how the characters are very slowly but purposely being developed. The book has three different stories running as one it seems and it weaves together very well. Just plain impressive. Just plain epic! The first audiobook Game of Thrones has chapter breaks that coincide with where they would be in the physical book. These breaks are timed out, and so happen at random points in the story.
Even the four "parts" of the book break mid-chapter. It would be a better listening experience if the breaks happened at an appropriate chapter break. Would you consider the audio edition of A Clash of Kings to be better than the print version?
Print version is better. Most people sound like old beggars. The first book separated the chapters into discrete segments, but this audiobook has completely arbitrary divisions. Huge disappointment and annoyance. If this wasn't the case, I'd be pleased as a pickle.
Would you try another book from George R. Martin is incredible. Dotrice, on the other hand, has mastered all of maybe 3 different voices, and each of them is about as easy on your ears as broken glass mixed with sandpaper. What did you like best about A Clash of Kings? What did you like least? Martin's series is grand and ambitious in its scope, and that is simultaneously its blessing and its curse.
The writing is strong, but the pace of the story is at once somehow quick, drawing the ear to the next page, and painfully slow. His use of different perspectives to tell the story is refreshing, but there are certain characters that it seems should be added to that list who remain absent, while some characters can grow simply tiresome at times.
Nonetheless, if you're here for more of what you got in "A Game of Thrones", you'll find plenty. That being said, Dotrice's narration is, to say the least, a mixed bag. Some characters, mainly the older male characters, are given excellent voices. Similarly, the voice he uses to narrate the general text itself is deliberate and clear. That being said, the list of characters who are nearly destroyed by his flamboyant voicing is long and unfortunate.
He miserably fails at voicing literally every female character in the book, especially Brienne of Tarth and Mellisandre, and he manages to butcher most of the younger characters, including Theon Greyjoy and Bran Stark.
His most distracting and consistent failures come with two of the most important characters, Tyrion Lannister who is given to sound like a shamefully caricatured leprechaun and Lord Varys, whose sloppy annunciation and unmstakeable lisp are a shame to Mr.
Dotrice and an absolute failure to grasp the character. Also worth mention are his terrible performances as Hodor the stableboy and Yoren the black brother.
With Hodor the failure is less distracting, since he only says one word anyway, but Yoren is consistently annoying and hard on the ear in every scene. Nonetheless, the writing is strong enough that a careful listener can work around the narration. I would recommend this recording of this book, but be aware of what you're getting yourself into beforehand.
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Makes driving to and from work go by faster. Rating: 5 oodeluph This is nothing short of a wonderful series. Bookmarks do Not hold your place. Awesome great partner to the series. Grim in appropriate places, keeps you agonizingly on the edge of your seat in others.
I really enjoyed this book. It fills in a lot of the story that Game of thrones the tv show left out. Processing Please Don't Refresh the Page. Audiobook Genres Genres. Play Sample.
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