So I finished listening to A Game of Thrones and am now getting well into A Clash of Kings. I thought the first book was marvelously read, and I doubt I would have had any good chance at following the plot if the narrator were not quite so talented. This second book is horribly read. The narrator while narrating sounds like proper "Queen's English" BBC1. He has a tendency to mispronounce things, like the names of Houses and simple words like lichen (he says "lich-en" not "liken"). The characters are voice-acted by the narrator, and he has a terrible range. Men and women alike are husky voiced, and all the Highborne sound like the mos' 'orribwe Cockney you evah 'eard. It's maddening, but I will suffer through the next 30 hours of this book... somehow. Book three goes back to the original narrator and I will welcome him with open ears.
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I had to double check this, but I was sure it could go either way, and reasonably sure that the British pronounced it the different way.... I love learning... /end geekiness
I had to look in 5 different online sources to find where they wrote the other pronounciation, and found one only in the Miriam-Webster. I favour many things about the British, but litchen will not stand!
I had something to share with you, but I forgot it.
Is it your birthday, yet?
OMG, I'm so thrilled that you had something to share with me! Did you make me a cookie...but you eated it?
No, it's on Monday. BTW, I'm officially old now. :( More on this later.