Everytime he talks for Tyrion I’m forced to run through how Dotrice picked Tyrion’s accent like this: Imp = short = leprauchan sized = Irish accent. I’ve never heard any word with that suffix pronounced in such a ear-mangling way. “-ienne” is a fairly common suffix for many words, and a feminine version of “-ian” (e.g. Name pronunciation… some of these are debatable so I’ll stick to one of the most egregious, Brienne. I guess Dotrice cleared his throat or took a pee break while recording that scene and forgot how he was voicing her. Some characters change their voices within a single scene e.g. All the characters sound like old men, even the young girls. The only positive I can give him is that at least within a single scene he differentiates character voices… similar to how I can differentiate my two grandfathers when they speak to each other. I’ve never listened to any of Dotrice’s other work, so I won’t say he hasn’t done good work in the past, but his Ice and Fire readings are absolutely terrible. Definitely a series I would recommend onto your iPod. If it is anything I learned from listening to the first triumvirate of A Song of Ice and Fire, it would be my discovery of Dotrice as a narrator, making me search for more of his spoken word. I’m not saying John Lee’s narration for A Feast for Crows (Book IV) isn’t at par - or wait, maybe he really doesn’t paint a very good landscape, but Roy Dotrice has set the bar so high, it would be hard to find another narrator who can do Martin’s work justice. There is hesitation for buying into book four, as listeners have gained more than 90 hours of empathy with Dotrice’s narrative abilities. Whether you’ve read the book or played the card game, Dotrice paints a very personal and memorable picture of the characters we’ve come to love and hate: Tyrion Lannister, Gregor Clegane, Daenerys Targaryen, Robb Stark … despite the hundreds of characters Martin puts into Westeros, Dotrice manages to isolate each one with his unique voice acting, bringing all of them to life (and death). Roy Dotrice is hands down the best narrator I’ve ever encountered for this type of fiction. Today, I have up till Book IV of the trilogy on paper and for reasons already mentioned, am now hesitant to purchase book four as its read by someone else. At that time I only had the first three books of A Song of Ice and Fire on paperback but I had bought this at a time when I had just graduated from college (yes, many a year ago) and well, stopped reading. Martin book and because I had a long commute. If you’re one for quantity, this is a good deal.īuying the audiobook because of Dotrice was only an afterthought as the two reasons why I initially wanted to try the series on audio was because I couldn’t get myself to actually finish a George R. In comparison, a typical audiobook at one credit gives you roughly 6-8 hours of reading while this one gives you 30. The trilogy will definitely extend to more than 100 hours of listening at 2 credits per book on Audible. Each book is divided into 7 or 8 parts at 8 or so hours each allowing roughly 33 hours per book. The books are long, making the audiobooks longer. A Song of Ice and Fire (1996) chronicles the political struggle between the Starks, Lannisters, exiled Targaryens and other houses that are sucked into the black hole of Westeros’ 7 Kingdoms. If the Lord of the Rings were made in America, George R. There’s many a reason to love this fantasy but two that stand out would include a fantastic narrator in actor Roy Dotrice and the fact that HBO is in the process of making a series out of the first book, A Game of Thrones. This is a collective audiobook review of the first three books of A Song of Ice and Fire which includes A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords.
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