Game Of Thrones Audiobook
Elliott Davis
Narrated by Ian Carmichael. Jill Paton Walsh triumphantly completes Dorothy L. Sayers last unfinished detective novel, featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and his new wife, Harriet Vane.It is 1936 and Lord Peter Wimsey has returned from his honeymoon to set up home with his cherished new wife, the novelist Harriet Vane. As they become part of fashionable London society they encounter the glamorous socialite Rosamund Harwell and her wealthy impressario husband Laurence. Unlike the Wimseys, they are not in love - and all too soon, one of them is dead. A murder case that only Lord Peter Wimsey can solve.THRONES, DOMINATIONS, A PRESUMPTION OF DEATH and THE ATTENBURY EMERALDS are now available in audiobook for the first time. Audible UK: : the complete Lord Peter Wimsey series in audiobook here:Audible UK:
Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
The thesp won a Tony in 2000 for his role in the Broadway revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, and played Leopold Mozart in Oscar-winning film Amadeus, but his storied career also included plenty of genre roles on the small screen, according to his official site.
Dotrice played Zeus in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Roger Wyndam-Price in Angel and Jacob Wells in CBS' Beauty and the Beast, a job that would be the first of several collaborations with George R. R. Martin, who was a writer and producer on the show.
He would then go on to provide the narration for all of the audiobooks in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, up to the most recently published novel, A Dance With Dragons, which was released in 2011. Dotrice currently holds the Guinness World Record for the most characters voiced in a single audiobook, for tackling a whopping 224 characters in Martin's first ASOIAF novel, A Game of Thrones, which runs 33 hours and 36 minutes long in its narrated form.
Dotrice then brought his Game of Thrones expertise to the HBO TV series, playing Hallyne the Pyromancer in two Season 2 episodes, "The Ghost of Harrenhal" and "Blackwater," in which he instructed Tyrion and Bronn about the uses for wildfire.
Before he was an actor, Dotrice was a member of Britain's Royal Air Force during World War II; after his plane was shot down behind enemy lines, according to The Guardian, he spent the rest of the war as a POW, which was where he discovered his love of theater, performing in plays for other prisoners.
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By way of small talk, what are you watching/reading now has become the new weather talk. That besides the very current conversations on Modi, Rahul Gandhi, Chowkidaar and Game of Thrones - not necessarily in that order. Since my job at one point was to watch and review shows and now is to read books - I thought of putting together a handy list of all the things to read/watch/binge on this summer for casual and ravenous pop culture consumers.
Sharp Objects, Amy Adams, HBO, Hotstar - Bestselling crime-fic author Gillian Flynn's (Gone Girl) debut book was adapted to an eight-part miniseries for HBO. A dark murder mystery based in smalltown America involving two bodies of gruesomely-killed little girls followed closely by a disturbed investigative reporter suffering from PTSD, alcohol-abuse and potentially other 21st century mental disorders called Camille Preaker (played to neurotic perfection by Amy Adams ) and law enforcement solve the crimes that lead to an unraveling of smalltown dirt in the vilest way possible. Insert wealthy, Southern mother suffering from Munchausen by Proxy (a disorder where caregivers keep their kids ill to create dependency on child and earn sympathy) and sinister happenings. Flynn and Adams teamed up to EP the series and though I didn't care much for the book, the series is infused with great adaptive screenwriting, cinematography, and acting. It'll take you to dark places, certainly.
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Elizabeth Holmes and the fall of Theranos, HBO, Hotstar - Unicorn Start-Up, Silicon Valley, female entrepreneur drop-out from Stanford, grand vision to change the world for good, investors including names start-up fairy tales are made of (Rupert Murdoch, Tim Draper, Betsy DeVos), the billion-dollar lie that came crashing down, ongoing healthcare fraud deposition - all ingredients for potent true-crime storytelling. Also offers a cautionary tale to people around the world of how you can fake a company, dupe investors, put lives of millions in danger and lie to become famous overnight if you tell the story the right way. There's a movie in the works with Jennifer Lawrence starring as the good-looking, inspiring and scary Holmes due to release in 2020.
Roma, Alfonso Cuaron, Netflix - Multiple Oscar-winning Netflix movie is a deeply personal story of a Mexican maid in America. A heartbreaking masterpiece that throws light on those who live in the margins. It offers an honest portrait of the tragedy of modern times, of the current socio-political and economic climate of excluding the masses and protecting the classes.
Sex Education, Laurie Nunn, Gillian Anderson, Netflix - This British comedy series premiered earlier this year and unlike other high-school shows. Young highschooler Otis Milburn (exceptionally performed by Asa Butterfield) is struggling to get it up, in bed and in school. Doesn't help that he's the son of a single mom who earns her living as a sex therapist, and Otis finds himself offering sex therapy sessions to paying highschoolers in school. Insert usual high school suspects - the jock, the cheerleader, the bully, the geek, the Gay best friend, the romantic interest - and you have a show that's not just entertaining, but also offers a great insight into the cosmopolitan and communal lives of kids who belong to diverse backgrounds - race, gender, sexuality. What a show!
Delhi Crime, Richie Mehta, Shefali Shah, Netflix - Probably one of the most defining moments of India in this decade has been the Nirbhaya rape case of 2012. It not just caused a major judicial revision on how rape is handled as a crime (capital punishment became a norm) but also forced society and politics to take serious cognizance of the debilitating state of women's safety and security in public - Delhi being the focal point of it all. The seven-part miniseries is created from the pov of Delhi Police and it's heroic handling of the case in spite of political pressure, governance issues, media scrutiny and infrastructural breakdowns (there's a scene where the DCP calls somebody higher up to renew electric current to the police station that is too broke to pay the bill). Despite the odds, they crack the case and arrest all accused. Actors Shefali Shah and Rasika Dugal bring in all their acting chops to the table and you relive those horrific days when the country reached the pinnacle of its collective rage.
Spring, Ali Smith, Penguin Random House - Scottish author and writer of Man Booker Shortlist 2017 (Autumn), Ali Smith is revising her seasons by publishing a book each year and in every season. The eponymous 4 are Autumn (2017), Winter (2018), Spring (2019) & Summer (2020). All the reactive fiction that is chronicling the lives of UK nationals in the face of the ongoing Brexit crisis. How politics, class and race pride, socio-economic conditions and the grim repercussions of Brexit is affecting and will drastically alter the lives of Britishers, who have thus far lived in a bubble of their supremacy. Smith handles the subject matter with great sensitivity and through her fictionalized prose, offers a non-fiction insight into possibly one of the worst crisis in the 21st century.
Lost Children Archive, Valerie Luiselli, Penguin Random House - Mexican-born author, Luiselli's work that was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 will break your heart, guaranteed. Piece of Autofiction (fictionalized autobiography), LSA is about the American/Mexican border crisis (current and previous) told from the lens of a family with kids road-tripping from New York to Arizona. But unlike other travelogue novels that archive the journey of inward-looking self-discovery, Luiselli implores you to take into account the journeys of tens of thousands of migrants from Central America and Mexico who cross into the US each year and what happens to the children who go missing while attempting to cross the border. It's stories like these that paint a true picture of many government's monstrous instincts to put up walls at great costs to humanity.
Circe, Madeline Miller, Bloomsbury Publishing - Another Women's Prize for Fiction 2019, shortlist this time, Miller is retelling Greek mythologies from the secondary character's perspective. She did it previously successfully with A Song of Achilles (Troy from Patroclus' POV). In Circe, she draws a profile of the often-misunderstood, deemed-ugly, the maniacal siren who seduced Odysseus and turned his armies into pigs when they were returning home after winning the battle of Troy (The Illiad & The Odyssey is the definitive work being mentioned ). What happens to the immortal daughter of a Titan who is banished from the Heavens to live in isolation on an island for all of eternity, and her unrequited yearning to find love and acceptance from her family being borne by the rare human who would land up at her shores. This piece of literary fiction will churn your insides on the back of its lyrical prose and make you question the role of the supporting actors in your lives. Female, feminist, fearless and flawed - Miller's writing inspires you to relook at the often male-dominated fantasy fiction titular titles. If there's only one piece of fiction you must read, let it be this.
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