We listen to tales about the Knights Radiant that is not there now but still stories and rumor go on in the air. It is the Roshar world that the author lets us enter where we first of all see only storms and stone and after that people with an unconquerable zeal. Summary Only if you've got a really long flight and don't mind a lot of meaningless brutality thrown in with your fantasy fluff.Most of the fans all over the world thought that the “Wheel of Time Saga” was the best piece of art Brandon Sanderson ever created but now we witness something mightier.
The Narration Everyone who is not a "high born" character is voiced as a semi retarded yokel - this gets really jarring after a very short time. This delightful interlude adds NOTHING to the plot or character of those involved - we already know they're treasonous adulterous baddies! The book is flush with these little treats, often involving children, and it is not an educational publication about the horrors of war, it's an airport fantasy novel. At times this feels like the kind of literature you should buy by the kilogram, not the book! The other big problem I personally have is the constant brutality dished out by the many random "Sir Knights" - A three year old has "his face smashed in by a morning star" before a similar fate meets his wailing mother.
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It's as if you've paused a scene in a movie and got someone to describe all the extras in massive detail. Remember "Sir Brentin Waythorpe of house Moon" ? No, well don't worry because even though we'll spend a few paragraphs describing his flags, mail and family tree, he'll have no role in the story and will never be heard of again. 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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