George R. R. Martin Song of Ice and Fire Audiobook Bundle

A Game of Thrones , A Clash of Kings , A Storm of Swords A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons

by George R. R. Martin

audio cd, 162 pages

Published March 27, 2012 by Random House Audio.

ISBN:: 978-0-7393-5296-0

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(122 reviews)

Contains: A Game of Thrones A Clash of Kings A Storm of Swords A Feast for Crows A Dance with Dragons

4 editions

🥒 reviewed A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set by George R. R. Martin

I Finally Figured Out How to Give Half Stars!!!

4 stars

This is a real-McCoy when it comes to high fantasy: extremely complex, long, descriptive, sometimes a little gratuitous with the violence, sexism, ableism, and the series' overall cynical opinion of humanity. In spite of its flaws and many valid criticisms, I think its success is still deserved for the care that went into not only the worldbuilding but especially each and every character who really feels like their own flesh-and-blood person with flaws and contradictions and vulnerabilities. ASoIaF really took the high-fantasy genre seriously while we were bombarded with too much irony and satire and made its most ambitious iteration yet in a way that Tolkein would've been proud, not to mention kick starting the Noun of Noun and Noun template for fantasy titles. Here's to hoping Martin finishes that gd manuscript before he's pushing daisies.

PS Actually another flaw I'd like to point out is that over time, the …

PS Actually another flaw I'd like to point out is that over time, the books begin to focus more and more on previously minor characters, adding more points-of-view with every book and not every character is as interesting as the last. Most people agree that Arya and Tyrion are the most interesting characters and yet they hardly show up by the second half of book five and we're stuck with Reek. A natural consequence of ambition, I guess.

jon_bon reviewed George R. R. Martin Song of Ice and Fire Audiobook Bundle by George R. R. Martin

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4 stars

Omläsning, många år sedan jag läste böckerna i A Song of Ice and Fire. Det som slår mig tydligare idag är hur TV-serien avviker från böckerna, karaktärer gör annorlunda saker m.m. Det tycker jag är lite synd, annars hade man bättre kunnat "fortsätta" när A Dance with Dragons slutar någon gång i slutet av säsong 5 i TV-serien, men det är tyvärr inte riktigt möjligt när handlingen är så annorlunda.

Jason reviewed George R. R. Martin Song of Ice and Fire Audiobook Bundle by George R. R. Martin

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4 stars

Finally the other half of the story from a Feast of Crows. I liked the story but I don't like a lot of the outcomes for some of the characters. This is becomming more of a Fantasy soap opera and less about any specific character. It's hard to root for anyone. I think Martin is showing his television background with this. I enjoy reading this series but it's becoming a series I'm no longer being interested in.

For me the loss of a central character to focus the story is making it hard to care. There were choices that some characters of made that seemed at odds with their personalities earlier in the series. There is some discontinuity in those characters that causes me to slowly not care.

I can't wait for the next books so that I can finish this series but it's becoming boring as I read on. …

Chewbury reviewed George R. R. Martin Song of Ice and Fire Audiobook Bundle by George R. R. Martin

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4 stars

Four stars because, frankly, this book could have been 40% shorter, just by removing the obsessive need to describe everyone's clothes every second paragraph.

Molly Foust reviewed George R. R. Martin Song of Ice and Fire Audiobook Bundle by George R. R. Martin

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3 stars

I was glad to see Tyrion again, my favorite character by far. But one of the problems I had with this book is that there was just not enough violence/action. And where was the sex? Hell, I practically grew back a hymen from all the purity. Sometimes entire sentences would go by without cannibals feasting on the entrails of their murdered enemies children, or crows feasting on the soft eye flesh of babies or hordes of soldiers gang raping an innocent. And the characters are just too damn nice, whether they were showing their love for their sea god by binding the hands and feet of beautiful young teenagers and throwing them into the ocean, or serving the homeless a feast of slaves who lost a lion fight, or blinding ten year olds and commanding them to slit the throat of a deserving enemy, or feeding their beloved a bowl …

Grey reviewed George R. R. Martin Song of Ice and Fire Audiobook Bundle by George R. R. Martin

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4 stars

Layer upon layer of hard and brutal betrayal. This being the largest volume thus far, and I couldn't put it down. Dragons and retributions, revenge and people getting their comeuppances, this is as the rest, utterly compelling.

Grey reviewed George R. R. Martin Song of Ice and Fire Audiobook Bundle by George R. R. Martin

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4 stars

I am unsure as to why people aren't so pleased to hear this tale from the perspective of others we have only previously encountered through the main cast.

I for one, was intrigued by the new slant, and cannot wait to get my hands on the fifth volume. Well done!

Eoghann Mill Irving reviewed George R. R. Martin Song of Ice and Fire Audiobook Bundle by George R. R. Martin

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5 stars

Worth the incredibly long wait, but I'm not looking forward to the next interminable gap. Nice to revisit some of these characters after so long and I do get the feeling that Martin is now attempting to pull all the different threads of his story together which he needs to if we're ever to get a conclusion.

Please though, there's one death that I really don't want to be a death!