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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

George R.R. Martin

Start date: June 9, 2011

Finish date: July 1, 2011

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May 26, 2011 Vicky rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, own-book, setting-fantasy, zz-cover-color-blue, z-author-american-usa, own-ncc-overdrive-ebook, own-ncc-overdrive-audio, series-waiting-on-release

I tried to read this book about a year ago and couldn't do it. I made it ~180 pages in and put it down for a good long while. Then my brother started to get on my case and wouldn't drop it until I finally picked it back up again.

I liked it, but I didn't love it. This is another prime example of a first book in a series that gives LOTS of world-building and set-up with little action. These kinds of books always disappoint me. There are, however, enough potential for future events that I'm going t ...more

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Dec 04, 2016 Morgan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, dragons, audiobook, fantasy

It took me a long time to finally get around to reading this -- I started it first a couple years back on kindle and got to a certain point before my attentions and time were taken by other things and shorter books were more satisfying since I could actually reach an end in a day or two.

This time I picked up the audio version instead and I'm really glad that I did. The narration was well done and it really made the story flow for me in a way that it just hadn't in print. It's a vast world and im ...more

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May 02, 2017 Vicky rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, setting-fantasy, own-audible-library, zz-cover-color-black, z-author-american-usa, series-waiting-on-release

Audiobook Review

I heard a lot of good things about Roy Dotrice's narration, but I felt it was kind of an average. He has the gritty voice and British accent that work well for a medieval fantasy, but I felt that a lot of his voices were overdramatized. The best thing I can say about his narration is that I could comfortably listen to it at 1.90x speed and cut my listening time almost in half. The narration was good enough that I will continue to listen to the series in audiobook, but I won't hun ...more

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