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A Clash of Kings
- Book 2 of A Song of Ice and Fire
- Narrated by: Roy Dotrice
- Series: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2
- Length: 37 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy
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Summary
The complete, unabridged audiobook of A Clash of Kings.
HBO’s hit series A Game of Thrones is based on George R. R. Martin’s internationally best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A Clash of Kings is the second volume in the series.
Throughout Westeros, the cold winds are rising.
From the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding lands of Winterfell, chaos reigns as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms stake their claims through tempest, turmoil and war.
As a prophecy of doom cuts across the sky - a comet the colour of blood and flame - five factions struggle for control of a divided land. Brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night.
Against a backdrop of incest, fratricide, alchemy and murder, the price of glory is measured in blood.
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- Jess
- 12-11-19
You’re better off getting a physical copy
I have no issues with the story, if you like Game of Thrones, you’ll enjoy this book.
However, the reason I’m writing this review, is that I cannot finish the book because the narration is so appalling.
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- Miss Wolf
- 09-02-19
please change narrator !!
Someone else narrating these books would have there work cut out for them especially after the HBO series's
but please let someone try !! I would love to listen to all these books again but the narrator is awful and ruins them all
be warned when buying these books all the different voices for all the characters change with each book it is very frustrating !
especially the way Roy turns Tyrion Lannister into a leprechaun and Tywin Lannister in to Winston Churchill
and Arya Stark (who should be northern) is an old Irish woman and on and on its so BAD ! !
I would be more than happy to buy the books to listen to again if a new narrator is found the books are definitely worth a second chance.
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- Orlaith Holland
- 04-09-17
Brilliant story, cringey narration
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
I absolutely loved the book, and I enjoyed the storytelling. But as someone who has both read the first book and seen the show, the narrator made some choices that I felt didn't make any sense. I must've missed that part in the story where the Lannisters sent Tyrion to Wales for a while, since he has a thick welsh accent while the others do not. Some other points where I seriously considered returning this was when I heard the pronunciation of certain names. A word of warning; only buy this if you are willing to listen to Brienne being pronounced BRI-EEN and Petyr being Pet-IRE. It drove me up the wall.
How could the performance have been better?
Maybe check up on familial ties between characters before you start doling out random accents.
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- Joanna
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Great Book - spoiled by poor narration
My plan to listen to this with a glass of wine whilst languishing in a hot bubble bath was sadly cut short when I started to listen to Roy Dotrice narration. I am not sure if Roy Dotrice was using this opportunity to practice his regional accents, or looking for a part in the next Pirates of the Caribbean either way I was left feeling incredibly frustrated by wasting money on this book and the waste of such a wonderful bath.
Oh well back to reading I think and PS Mr Dotrice if you are looking for a tip - when reading a character with an accent a try give them the same accent throughout.
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- Marcus
- 01-01-12
Addictive
I started this series having watched the Game of Throne series on TV and it has not disappointed. It does take time to get into the stories as there are so many characters, plot lines and background history. What really helped me to follow what is happening was a website called Tower of the Hand, which has summaries of each chapter and links to biographies of all the characters.
A great ranges of interesting characters with most showing shades of good
and bad in their actions. Tyrion the dwarf is a great literary creation. The author is a natural story teller, packing the narrative with sparkling dialogue, inventive action, and most chapters end on cliffhangers. Unusually for
a fantasy series many of the early battles are only described to us in the third person, although later books start to describe the battles as first person encounters.
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- JF7588
- 11-06-12
True...
...this series deserves a better reader than Dotrice, but, that admitted, it's still one of the best ways of consuming this series although having to buy the book twice - no one volume is longer than War and Peace and other hefty volumes that are sold as one so why are these sold in two full price parts - is a bane and the strongest argument against listening to it in this way
32 people found this helpful
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- Andrew
- 23-02-13
Don't forget to get part 2!
The way the publisher has split a single volume into two parts is not only blatant profiteering but has limited my enjoyment of the series. This is the second time I have gone on to the next book without realising I had not finished the book I was reading!! The result is I know what is going to happen in the second part of this volume because I have listened to the start of the next book. The way Audible catalogues the books doesn't help- I have tried a couple of different filters and none place parts 1 and 2 of this volume together. It would help if Audible could warn you when you buy the book that it is in 2 parts, as other providers do. Started a new book by a diffferent auther- I might come back to this, but may just give up.
43 people found this helpful
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- Luke
- 19-03-12
Spliiting into parts is a ripoff
I enjoyed listening. However the lack of variation in voices made the experience often confusing, and I felt cheated that after buying part 1, I had to buy part 2 separately to finish the story. Will not buy another book with this reader and with this being charged twice system.
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- Ru
- 03-10-11
Amazing story, poor narration.
This picks up where the recent HBO tv series left off. Obviously the book is better than the tv show, in fact the book starts good and by the end is utterly engrossing (and pretty dark). Unfortunately the narrator (Roy Dotrice) makes it pretty hard going by leaving inexplicable pauses in the middle of most sentences and attributing the most bizarre voices to the characters. His accent repertoire seems to consist of either irritatingly posh or rural with learning difficulties. Very strange choice of narrator for such a high profile book in my opinion. Still the story is so good that I'm going to listen to the next one anyway.
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- Jeremy
- 30-11-11
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Roy Dotrice has a good voice and as narrator he's perfect. Given the geography of Westeros, it's OK to give the Lannisters welsh accents. The irish/scottish accents for other regions of the island are very confused though and seem to be random and inconsistent. From the delivery, many of the "little people" seem to be mentally impaired (not there in the text). BUT the worst choice in the exaggerated Churchill accent for Tywin Lannister, truly AWFUL. It made the scenes with him in a painful nails-down-a blackboard experience!
There are an enormous number of characters so there would have to be lots of generic "voices" but does every sailor have to be Robert Newton's long john silver?
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-05-19
Change the narrator
The nagging voice of the narrator is the only downside. It is often too sharp and hurts my ears. But the story is fantastic so you press on.
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- Maria
- 08-09-19
Great story, poor narration
Excellent novel, but so frustrating to listen to the narration of Roy Dotrice, who once again mispronounces the names of the characters and places, and makes voices sound toothless and ridiculous. Disrespectful to the fans of the books/series.
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- Michael
- 11-02-13
If you are up to this, you are hooked
Carries on from 'Game of Thrones' and doesn't disappoint. Some characters have disappeared whilst others develop into excellent characters. What is so good about this story is that the characters are not two dimensional cartoon types. Their motivations, ambitions and fears project them through the story with enough twists and different outcomes you will never see coming. I hope the magic of this series doesn't end.
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- Milica
- 17-02-20
Not a great sequel, but part of an epic series
A Clash of Kings is the second book in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. It continues on from the epic finale of the first book, A Game of Thrones. I did not enjoy this book, to be honest I struggled to get through it. There was so much NOT happening. I feel as though this book was like the slow build up to the next book in the series. My view is if it doesn’t add to the story, why put it in? I felt that there was a lot in this book that didn’t add to the overall story. The book was so long but hardly anything happened.
Roy Dotrice is a masterful performer. I almost can’t believe how many voices he has. The vast amount of characters in this book are no match for his brilliant intonation and absolutely amazing performance.
Although this book was not the best, it would be silly to miss reading one in the series. Just try get through it quickly to get to the next one!
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- Canberra Dilettante
- 23-03-14
Amazing story,, but a challenge for the narrator
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, 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.
What other book might you compare A Clash of Kings (Part One) to and why?
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. There's a Gothic nastiness about some of it that is missing from Tolkein.
What aspect of Roy Dotrice’s performance would you have changed?
Eeek. I recognise what a difficult book this must have been to narrate, with so many different characters, and made up names. 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. 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.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
The Wars of the Roses, with Magic! And Dragons!
Any additional comments?
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. 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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- Louis Schultz
- 20-04-21
Great
Love the story and the reader makes great voices for different characters that makes it easy to follow.
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- Enzo Maique Bodean
- 19-02-21
Awesome
It’s a perfect reading. There’s less then ten words that differ from what’s written in the hard copy book.
My only concern was with the pronounce of the Velaryon family name. Somewhere in there there might have been a confusion with Valyrian (from Valyria)
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- Luisa
- 26-12-20
Horrible narrator
Roy Dotrice’s voices are just horrible. Not a lot of variety and very inconsistent. As for Martin, his style is so heavy handed that the story is opaque!
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- Anonymous User
- 25-08-20
Would prefer another narrator
The narrator pronounces the names a bit weirdly and tends to mimick voices a bit childishly for my taste. The story is great albeit a bit slow in some of the chapters.
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- Gobbstoppers
- 21-07-20
Just so good
So good and so captivating. Love this series. The more you listen the more you feel as if you're right there with them.