A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

George R. R. Martin

Aug 2003 · A Song of Ice and Fire Book 1 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Roy Dotrice

About this audiobook

NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES—THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON
 
Here is the first book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece in the making.

A GAME OF THRONES
 
In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the North of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
 
A GAME OF THRONES • A CLASH OF KINGS • A STORM OF SWORDS • A FEAST FOR CROWS • A DANCE WITH DRAGONS

Ratings and reviews

This reader, unlike most audio voice actors, hardly ever switches his voice for a change of character and when he does, it's just the smallest change. Perfect example of this is the conversation between Ned & Caitlin at chapter 6 (2:12:42). It's just awful which sucks cause he has a good voice but reads too fast and doesn't even pause or change his tone to denote whether there's a transition between the narration or someone speaking.

Narration is awful. And the fact that he makes Tyrion sound like a leprechaun is terrible. One of my favorite series, and I will not purchase the others. Utter waste of 36 dollars.

The reader should stop using character voices, there is too little distinction between rhe various voices he uses. Evidently he thinks it is entertaining, it is NOT. The listeners are not children, we do not need these poorly put on voices.

About the author

George R. R. Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire—A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons—as well as Tuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag, Dying of the Light, Windhaven (with Lisa Tuttle), and Dreamsongs Volumes I and II. He is also the creator of The Lands of Ice and Fire, a collection of maps from A Song of Ice and Fire featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, and The World of Ice & Fire (with Elio M. García, Jr., and Linda Antonsson). As a writer-producer, Martin has worked on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and pilots that were never made. He lives with the lovely Parris in Santa Fe, New Mexico.