At some points, these pauses almost change the sense of what's being said, and you find yourself having to mentally re-wind to re-phrase the words in your head to get the proper meaning. mid-sentence so you're not sure if the sentence is finished. Leaving aside the characterisation, for a moment, Roy Dotrice has this bizarre habit of pausing. Unfortunately, this audiobook was a struggle to listen to because I just couldn't get on with the narration. So take it as read that I'm familiar with the books, the story, George R R Martin's writing style, and the cast of thousands that populate Westeros and the lands across the Narrow Sea. The I purchased the Season 1 DVDs for A Game of Thrones. And I re-bought the entire series as eBooks for my Kindle. I actually own the paperbacks to A Song of Ice and Fire. Given the number of characters and the scope of the book I think on the whole he did a good job, but someone dropped the ball somewhere in the edit suite. I disagree, I rather like his reading style but, whoever produced the recordings should be embarrassed by the fact that at certain points characters are renamed and worst of all one character's accent suddenly changes from Northern English to Welsh, I thought I was hearing things at first. A few reviewers have suggested that Roy Dotrice doesn't do a good job with the narration. I certainly had to rewind on a number of occasions. I do feel that it helps for a newcomer to the books to have seen the TV show, the story in non-linear at points, jumping forward and then backtracking, this can be a little disconcerting, you may wonder if you've accidentally skipped over a chapter somewhere. There are several reviews here which express far more eloquently than I could just how good this story is so I'm not going to comment on that aspect, instead I'll comment on the listening experience provided by the audiobooks.
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