Excellent

Would you listen to A Game of Thrones again? Why?

Never liked TLoR tbh, not that I don't appreciate Tolkien's vision, but I don't enjoy simplistic good/bad worlds, need the kind of realistic depth you get here where characters are products of their history and environment and evolve through their experiences. To that end an excellent story. I'm also no fan of the easy use of magic almost like deus ex machina plot device, here any magic is uncertain just like everything else.

What other book might you compare A Game of Thrones to, and why?

For the reasons above I'd say if you enjoy this, you'd enjoy Frank Herbert's, 'Dune'.

What about Roy Dotrice’s performance did you like?

I thought the reader's performance is excellent, many reviewers seem to expect something beyond the abilities of a single reader. Personally I think Dotrice does a superb job with such a wide range of characters.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Lot's of twists and turns as things develop make for a wide range of emotions.

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Amazing Story, Spoiled by Poor Narration

I have avoided Game of Thrones on TV as I knew I wanted to listen to the audiobooks so went into it knowing very little about the characters and storyline other than a few references picked up here and there. It took a little while to get to grips with who everyone was, and I'm still a bit confused about some of the fringe characters to be honest, but a few chapters in I was hooked and found it very addictive to listen to.

The thing that spoiled the book slightly for me, however, was the narration. I listen to audiobooks very regularly and have never come across such bad narration before! Roy Dotrice seems to run out of breath mid-sentence, making the meanings hard to follow. He uses the wrong intonations or stresses the wrong words so you have to mentally figure out what the author intended the sentence to be read like, which is very frustrating! He also changes Tyrion's accent from Lancashire to Welsh part way through and changes how he pronounces certain characters' names throughout the book - Joffrey becomes Jeffrey, Petyr is pronounced Pet-Arr, then Pet-Ear - maintaining consistent voices and pronunciations seems like a basic requirement for a narrator. I will be continuing with the series on audio for now as I don't have time to read the physical books and the storyline is so enthralling, but if you have the time to read them yourself I would recommend doing that over the audiobook as the narration is so bad. I can only hope they re-record this series with a better narrator (Rupert Degas would be great) before I get much further!

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excellent reader!

reader is very engaging and entertaining. book is very detailed which can be boring but the reader makes it impossible to stop listening.

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Great story but narration not overly good

Game of Thrones books are fantastic. But some of the accents used were very irritating!

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Brilliant!

I have seen the show, I'm fully up to date so I knew what would happen but I still loved every second of the book. It is like watching the first season again but with deleted scenes.

The only things that I found odd was that the narrator called Joffery "Jeffery" occasionally. That kind of pulled me out of it. I wasn't a fan of his way of saying Hodor either. It was a bit mocking. Plus he sometimes called him "Hodar". But I still loved the book.

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Fantastic

Having read previous reviews I was sceptical about listening to Roy Dotrice's narration. However he was an excellent narrator. Its amazing how true to the book the first series of GOT was too. Looking forward to listening to the next one.

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Great story annoying narration

The narrator has a good reading flow (I play on 1.1x speed) however the voices he gives for certain characters is almost unbearable.

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Narrator should have watched the show a bit.

The narrator does a good job for the most part however I can't seem to think someone should have told him the correct pronunciations of certain names and places and the fact that Tyrion sounds like a peasant from northern England rather than the posh aristocrat that he is, breaks the emersion a bit.

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Every fan should read

Loved it but the narrator takes some getting used to, he gets some names and voices wrong at times. every fan should read this it adds so much.

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Book 1, Game of Thrones.

Wow, Brilliant book, loved it.
Fantastically read,
gripped throughout.
Can't wait to start book 2.

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