I'm so stupidly hooked to GoT audiobooks, that I actually bothered to write its abbreviation correct.
All hell to me.
The narrator (Roy Dotrice), painted a canvas so epic. Each character had a different voice, and each voice had its own character, and that made it so extremely easy and interesting to follow.
His narration was old school, heart warming and benevolent.
And so imagine my shock, surprise, dismay and horror when I started with "feast of crows" and the voice wasn't 'The voice'. It'd changed. Roy Dotrice was gone, and instead there was John Lee.
It left me in shock for a day. I couldn't do anything, I was so sad. All characters were new now, they sounded so different. After being used to Roy Dotrice's full bodied accent, there was suddenly this different voice, who sounded so very not old school.
It must sound so silly, but I was hurt. My favorite characters sounded different. I couldn't follow a couple of arches just because I forgot that this was a new voice that spoke with different intonations.
Ugh, my drawings weren't getting done. Still, I pushed through, and suddenly, everything got better. John Lee is fanfuckingtastic. I'm almost at the end of feast of crows and it's been a smooth sailing. His characters have a different voice too, but there feels like an added dimension of thoughts to it.
It's difficult to explain, but he's made the characters feel more three dimensional, or maybe it could be just how this book was written.
Even so, I must've finished half a dozen drawings listening to GoT audiobooks..and not only hooked, it has me ensnared.
Bring me your fantasies, epic sagas of seas beyond seas, and volumes and volumes of words and voice. I'll listen as I draw.
ps: the first line isn't GoT
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