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.
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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? Amazing story, but a challenge for the narrator
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