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  • Book 3 of A Song of Ice and Fire
  • By: George R.R. Martin
  • Narrated by: Roy Dotrice
  • Length: 47 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (2,367 ratings)

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A Storm of Swords

By: George R.R. Martin
Narrated by: Roy Dotrice
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George R. R. Martin’s sprawling, highly acclaimed epic fantasy series, on which the hit TV show Game of Thrones is based, continues. Veteran actor Roy Doctrice reads this classic audiobook, in which blood feuds and rebellions are laying waste the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. As winter draws nearer, 20,000 wildings are congregating in far-north Frostfangs to attack Robb Stark’s Kingdom of the North, under fire from the south by the treacherous Lannisters. Thrilling, moving and deeply complex, A Storm of Swords (Part One) - Steel and Snow, book 3 of A Song of Ice and Fire, is available from Audible.

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The complete, unabridged audiobook of A Storm of Swords.

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 Storm of Swords is the third volume in the series.

The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter approaches like an angry beast. Beyond the Northern borders, wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice and stone wasteland of the Frostfangs. From there, the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall.

The men of the Night’s Watch are ready for the coming of a great cold and the walking corpses that travel with it. But now they face a horde of wildlings 20000 strong - hungry savage people steeped in the dark magic of the haunted wilderness – poised to invade the Kingdom of the North where Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown.

But Robb’s defences are ranged against attack from the South, the land of House Stark’s enemies the Lannisters. His sisters are trapped there, dead or likely yet to die, at the whim of the Lannister boy-king Joffrey or his depraved mother Cersei, regent of the Iron Throne. Cersei’s ambition is unfettered while the dwarf Tyrion Lannister fights for his life, a victim of treachery.

And on the other side of the ocean, the last of the Targaryens rears the dragons she hatched from her husband’s funeral pyre. Daenerys Stormborn will return to the land of her birth to avenge the murder of her father, the last Dragon King on the Iron Throne.

©2011 George R. R. Martin (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic Reviews

"Colossal, staggering.... Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world...one of the greats of fantasy literature." ( SFX)
"Fantasy literature has never shied away from grandeur, but the sheer-mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy writers away shaking their heads.... Its ambition: to construct the Twelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias." ( Guardian)

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Great book, Good Reading

Story is excellent! Roy Dotrice's voice is growing on me. I originally didn't think I could stick with these audiobooks because of the reading, but now it feels like my grandfather is reading to me and doing the voices. Really loving the whole series.

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Roy Detrice rocks

These books are so much better for his reading them! I am totally hooked. I love the accents

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Terrible narration

I've read the first two books so went for the third as audio. The narration ruined this totally with regional UK accents allocated to characters seemingly at random. A brother and sister had completely different geographical accents... Couldn't listen. Had to return it. Will go back to paper copy!

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Swords Wot Storm

The continuing adventures of Rob, Sansa, Bran, Arya, Rickon aka the Famous Five. Thank goodness Timmy the Direwolf is close at hand to save the day.

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awful performance

it's a constant struggle not to turn it off. his voice is awful, the throaty voices sound as if he's about to spit, most characters sound the same which takes away "character". Misandei is the worst, sometimes it's hard to even understand what he's saying. a big let down to such good story I keep losing interest and not paying attention because his voice is so off putting.

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I enjoyed listening to this book. The person reading 📚 the book 📖 did a great job.

There's nothing I didn't like about this book.I really liked the writing the author of this book really knows how to write.

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The Narrator' efforts producing so many different voices for the many characters.

The Narrator pronounces some words and names incorrectly however does an amazing job with voices for so many characters. A suggestion is it would be nice to have a female Narrator included for the female characters and allow the male Narrator more variety for the male voices.

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Old man narrates love scenes

I liked the story over all, but found this tedious to listen to. When he’s not poorly narrating women and accents the narration of the story is fine, but please stop Roy Detrice doing love scenes and accents!

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A five-star listen but for the narrator

It's Bree-ahn, not Bri-een. Lichen is lie-ken, not litch-en (kitchen with an L). There were other examples of Dotrice's strange inability to pronounce relatively common words, but I've been listening to this for a month and a half and now I can't remember the others. He is really good at the songs, which if I was reading this I would have skipped over because reading page after page of a song is not my idea of fun, but listening to Dotrice sing them made them enjoyable. The changes from the book to the show that apparently were done just to make it more shocking were interesting choices and I'd love to hear the reasoning behind them.

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FFS

Book 3 and the same bloody narrator.
Same 3 accents, West Country, Posh or Welsh soooooooo annoying this narrator has ruined what should be a great listen, so much so I don’t think I can complete the series :( 😡😡

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