The way you voice ***STRONG BELWAS*** is absolutely perfect, and I love it.

@DavidReadsASoIaF

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@burpostockings

Жыл бұрын

He is the equivalent of LEEEROY JENNNNNKINS

@mtgo9686

Жыл бұрын

favorite charactor voice acting by far

@BigBWolf90

Жыл бұрын

Well they're both showmen so it makes sense

@InfamousB9

Жыл бұрын

@@burpostockings Please,please remind me who was Leeroy Jannnnkins,I remember the name but forget from where

I love the Daario jump scares in Dany’s POVs 😂😂 25:53

“A better Knight the you SER!” Barristain Selmy has no chill

@comradestannis

10 ай бұрын

He's kind of annoying here.

@cherylbaxter8986

8 ай бұрын

I really luv Sir Barristan Selmey he's like s father figure he's got a good heart Loyal

@cherylbaxter8986

8 ай бұрын

@@comradestannis How is he annoying here I luv his fight scene defending Danny

@comradestannis

8 ай бұрын

@@cherylbaxter8986 He interjects too much when he doesn't need to.

@BrownRecluse1738

4 ай бұрын

​​@@comradestannisas always you're not just wrong you're stupid

STRONG Belwas is an absolute beast and I'll never forgive the show for cutting him out entirely. this chapter lays the foundation for one of my favorite theories that the poisoned locusts Belwas eats at the fighting pits in Dance are actually intended for him all along as retribution by the House of Pahl for killing Oznak here. awesome chapter keep up the great work !

@DavidReadsASoIaF

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I actually laughed out loud at that theory. It must have been the Shavepate, must have! But I love the idea that the Oznak family; who are not acknowledged beyond this chapter, was secretly plotting their own very personal plot that inadvertently screwed up the peace with Yunkai.

@reillykennedy3138

3 жыл бұрын

​@@DavidReadsASoIaF i cant take credit it all goes to this great vid : kzread.info/dash/bejne/hYOlsNF9idrfodY.html&ab_channel=PrestonJacobs

I appreciate that you put Daario onscreen every time he's mentioned

Nobody expects the Dario Naharis fanart

The way Dany decides to stop thinking about kissing guys because she has to run kingdoms is so telling because that really is what a 15 year old girl should be doing (besides the whole considering marrying people so much older than her). She’s just a teenager, and while it’s great that she’s freeing so many people it’s unfortunate anyone her age would have so much responsibility

@comradestannis

10 ай бұрын

Her responsibility is, at least in theory, to Westeros, not to Meereen or Astapor or whatever.

@thegreatpage5912

8 ай бұрын

@@comradestannis She is not responsible for Westeros neither. Westeros may be where her ancestors built their dynasty, but that is gone now. She may choose to re-establish it if she wants, she has the power to make that choice. But she is also in the process of establishing her own king in Slaver's Bay. Which at least as far as the show goes she may have been better off there. In my opinion Jon has the boring story.

@comradestannis

8 ай бұрын

@@thegreatpage5912 No, the storyline there is trash.

@thegreatpage5912

8 ай бұрын

@@comradestannis Too you maybe, I find the Mereen storyline great. Only thing is we don't get enough of it since it's so far removed from everything else.

@comradestannis

8 ай бұрын

@@thegreatpage5912 Okay.

Everyone is talking about your "Strong Belwas!!", all I can think about is your Daenerys from 40:32 onward; it is honestly quite a moving performance. Bravo sir, and thank you.

@DavidReadsASoIaF

3 жыл бұрын

Wow thanks so much!

@comradestannis

10 ай бұрын

@@DavidReadsASoIaF I hope you become a historian like you want; I also want to be a historian.

@cherylbaxter8986

6 ай бұрын

​@@DavidReadsASoIaFhave you thought about reading Fire an Blood

I realy dont see what Dany sees in Daario, i mean the man dresses like a god damn peacock and has a smooth jazz theme song acompanying him everywhere he goes...

@DavidReadsASoIaF

3 жыл бұрын

He’s powerful, dangerous, and in this fantasy world his RIDICULOUS sartorial decisions are sexy too (luxurious fabrics, jewelry, bright colors - did you know that a lot of premodern societies didn’t have a concept of clashing colors? Just not a part of their mental universe, they valued bright and EXPENSIVE colors). Though I used a pretty comical piece of fan art to depict him in his first appearance, I’ve seen other pieces where Daario looks hot, AND matches George’s description. Plus, if the only other virile man around is Jorah, who’s making this absurd effort to keep all other men away from you 😬

@oz4087

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidReadsASoIaF i just find him to bee radiating bad wibes to me, i think Barry described him best as poison. Hope theyr romance doesnt continue in Winds.

@charlinethom1624

Жыл бұрын

She likes bad boys. lol

@JessBecause77

Жыл бұрын

@@oz4087 I think he's gonna be the love betrayal Dany was warned about and not what happened with Drago. Only because to be being betrayed by love means betrayal from someone you love. That's just my thoughts since the beginning.

@mortalkomment8028

Жыл бұрын

Daario is such a freakshow but yeah, the colorized beard and the crazy costume may have been somewhat impressive just like a contemporary pimp or super star is impressive to children and groupies... And Dany is just 15. She's still a groupy and girly fan of boyband singer Daario... 😅

Dany is 15 and still cheering for boyband singers like Daario. This explains it. She's a groupy girly fan of his.

I'm really happy that I decided to check out the books after the show. The amount of stuff Dave and Dan left out of the show is a huge disappointment. I dig the Belwas character and you did a damn good job 👏

@thegreatpage5912

Жыл бұрын

The problem is you can't adapt everything from the books. In a show you have to consider the budget, run time, too many characters, and other factors to consider.

@comradestannis

10 ай бұрын

Brown Ben Plumm...

@cherylbaxter8986

8 ай бұрын

@@thegreatpage5912 yes but they twisted so many storyline's like Danny's house of The underlying is WAY better In the book's when I listened to that chapter I was thinking she was looking for her dragons but Totally different Dumb an Dumber destroyed Danny's character arch

@cherylbaxter8986

8 ай бұрын

@@comradestannis Aegon the un numbered

@comradestannis

8 ай бұрын

@@cherylbaxter8986 lol yeah

Damn, how the hell did Dany fall for Daario with that face?

@cherylbaxter8986

11 ай бұрын

Yeah not like in the show

@matro2

10 ай бұрын

There's other art where he looks what you might expect.

@zer0phasez

10 ай бұрын

Leave her alone. She in her bad boy phase.😭

@cherylbaxter8986

10 ай бұрын

@@zer0phasez yes she likes a strong man a warrior , how do you think Danny an Daemon would've got along an would they be a good couple

I love the accent you chose for Brown Ben Plum, not what I originally imagined, but so much better!

LMFAO NOOOOO pls i was thinking about how funny it’d be if you popped up the Dario picture when he was mentioned and doing so when Dany says “rape with his eyes”killed me

the old bold sell sword line lmaooo

@TheFactsMan

2 ай бұрын

yeah🤣

She shouldn’t have yelled at Jorah because he DID tell her the Titan’s Bastard had escaped the battle in front of Meereen and that he had men looking for him. So she was wrong to yell at him for not telling her because he did. I love finding little slips like this.

Wow absolutely banger of a chapter. the Barristan the Bold reveal took me by complete surprise. I jumped out of my seat when I heard his name. Watching the show in 2019 my reaction was a mild "oh that guy"

@matro2

10 ай бұрын

I thought it was obvious at first sight. Sure, I saw the show but who else was he going to be? Being a squire at that age was odd so it was a given he was someone else. And he's the fit description of the mysteriously absent Barristan Selmy.

I absolutely adore these! I started reading the GOT series and 1/4 through this third book, had to do eye surgery (for which I am still in recovery). I searched for their audio versions and came upon you❤️ and it has been worth every moment! Thank you so much for these! You are awesome!

@comradestannis

10 ай бұрын

You made the right decision.

The chapter that made me love belwas.

The rise of selmy

Jorah is also a real piece of work in this chapter. He’s shown his nastiness before this too. Who is HE to hold a sword to Barristans throat?! Who does he think he is?!

Damn. Great voice acting that last monologue of Dany’s thoughts were intense. 👍

Your an absolute professional sir David. Good job 👍

I thoroughly enjoy these! I started reading the GOT series but had eye surgery 1/4 way through this third book. I looked up the audiobooks during my recovery (which I am still on) and found you❤️

Roy Dotrice is good overall but to me it's not clear and sometimes I don't understand what he says. To me, your's is way more clear and enjoyable and I can't wait till I continue with the rest! Thank you sir!

I'm surprised Dario didn't mention the Titan's bastard had escaped. Seems like he would have been concerned about that more so than Mormont

@JayDee-gs2uv

9 ай бұрын

They did mention it, him or Jorah. That was a screw up by grrm I think

Strong Belwas voice is awesome

Amazing love it

Barristan the Bold to the rescue.

STRONG BELWAS!!!

This is my favorite dany t chapter in this book. From strong belwas, to arstan beating the shit out of that titans bastard, and finally the reveal that he is BARRISTAN GODDAMN SELMY!!!

Ahhh Meereen! I hope we’re not here for too long!

This is awesome!!! That cat drove me crazy though i was wondering for at least an hour where it was coming from

@HippytheKid419

6 ай бұрын

Always adds a laugh for me cause I just imagine a kitten walking up and being all lovey in the middle of the shit being read 🤣

If I saw that little action from the Titan’s bastard grabbing Dany, to the action scene between Barristan and the Titan’s bastard in the show and you told me that wasn’t how it happened in the book I probably would believe that because it does seem a bit too dramatized of an event to occur. Especially with the Titan’s bastard gloating instead of killing Dany right away when given the chance

STRONG BELWAS needs no bells!

Hurts my heart we dont get my boy STRONG BELWAS!!! In the show

Gosh i love barristan

So did Danny keep her 3 ships an what was left on them Yes she still has the ship's

23:00 an 32:58 Sir Barristan Selmey he is awesome great fighter he truly lives up to his name

Strong Belwas is my favourite character of yours

I admire you faith to the books but that is the worst picture of Daario Naharis I've ever seen

@DavidReadsASoIaF

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao I know. I put it in there in these chapters as a gag because i really appreciated the artist drawing him so faithfully and the fact that he looks so ABSURD according to that faithful description. I’ve seen other fan art where he’s hot but, you know, I just thought it would be funny.

@doopdoopdopdop7424

2 жыл бұрын

Makes you wonder how desperate Daenerys got.

@thedokkodoka4349

Жыл бұрын

We called people like book Dario "metrosexuals" or "freaks" back in the day. Nowadays every other KZreadr looks like book Dario. Times change.

@mortalkomment8028

Жыл бұрын

@@thedokkodoka4349 A total freakshow, indeed. But Dany is just 15 and still in her puberty and has those fat stupid Belwases and bear simps around her. Daario is the logical choice for he's a sigma male.

S T R O N G B E L W A S S S is my all time favorite character and it disgusts me to my core that I watched the entirety of GoT not even knowing what I was missing till now. This is peak literature

OMG your voice of Brown Ben Plum sounds Aussie or English great ascent

@comradestannis

10 ай бұрын

I love it!

🥳🥳🥳

Brown Ben Plumm sounds Australian to me

Strong Belwas freaking Rules

I thought ser Jorah did tell danny that the titans bastard had escaped!🤔

6:23

Why is Jorah alive? 🤬😫😭

@doopdoopdopdop7424

2 жыл бұрын

I mean… I kinda like him.

Aegon the Un numbered

28:43

Is Ben Plum Aussie?

@macnsteez3938

Жыл бұрын

Thats not aussie, its more Cockney british. Good choice from the godking David imo

@comradestannis

10 ай бұрын

idk, ig

14:37 allopathy?

loving these readings btw :) your voices are incredible & I find your tone very comforting. I wonder if anyone else struggles with the way GRRM describes/depicts people of colour in the story or is it just me? I feel like a lot of the time, the non-white characters are depicted as 'savages' or just desperately devoted to their white leader (who happens to be the whitest white woman ever!), or only exist to further Dany's plot - why do we know absolutely nothing about Irri and Jhiqui, for example? I also don't know how I feel about physical descriptions like 'mongrel', 'flat-noses' etc, which generally have negative connotations. & obviously the whole 'Mhysa' thing is incredibly cringe and plain tone deaf. I realise there isn't really a sense of race in the ASOIAF world, in the same way we think of it, but I feel like that can be a bit of a cop-out sometimes/an excuse not to deal with the white saviour themes.The author must know that we're bound to interpret things through a modern, real-world lens, & the unfortunate connotations that a lot of these descriptions and plot points evoke. I am white btw, so I'd be interested to hear what readers of colour think.

@DavidReadsASoIaF

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I think it’s a mixed bag, but I don’t think Dany is a “white savior.” I don’t even think she’s a subversion of a “white savior.” I think this theme comes up a lot because George wrote some of this stuff a little clumsily and contrary to his stated aims. He says he envisioned the Ghiscari as ancient Mediterranean people, without being specifically racially coded. You’re right though that a lot of the language is vaguely racialized and almost always in negative terms. I think that’s clumsiness on George’s part, in contrast to what I see as much better writing from him that subtly addresses race and the fantasy genre (I think Victarion’s rocks for brains racism, reacting with suspicion and terror every time he says a dark skinned person, has a very intentional relationship to the HP Lovecraft inspiration for the Iron Born - their racism and other terrible values, values shared in some sense by the real HP Lovecraft, are part of what’s going to doom them). But I think because, and I have no reason to think George is lying, he didn’t intend for the “white savior” imagery to be so central, that Dany’s arc more broadly deconstructs the idea of a savior warrior king. Another commenter pointed out that being “Mhysa” was never Dany’s original goal. Her original goal was the Iron Throne, and she was willing to do all sorts of incredibly evil things to get it (like selling the Lhazarrreen into slavery after destroying their homes and slaughtering most of them). That doesn’t really change when she becomes the breaker of chains. She doesn’t repent of the desire to conquer a continent and become its monarch. She does want to “plant trees” in Meereen, but she chooses to believe there’s no conflict between that and her imagined “destiny” as a conquering warrior queen. In the end she gives up on the planting of trees anyway. I think this has less to do with colonial and imperial themes than it does the idea of noble wars and rightful kings. But also George’s interest in exotic detail (he has a great quote where he talks about how fantasy should he “silks and jewels and habanero peppers and rich wines” etc etc etc etc) and self indulgence introduced a lot of stuff that makes this theme a little less obvious than it could be. That’s just my take though!

@hermirony123

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidReadsASoIaF it's a great take! & I have no doubt a lot of it is unintentional/subconscious on GRRM's part. I have heard a lot of people claim that Dany is supposed to be a subversion of the white saviour trope, but that doesn't really do it for me personally. In order for that to be successful, I feel like the characters of colour around her would need to be more fleshed out and perhaps have their own chapters. I have no idea if this would work or make it worse (lol) but I would be curious to see, say, the sacking of Meereen, from the POV of the Meereenese. That way we'd see Dany through their eyes, as the big bad imperial invader. Admittedly, this is only my second reading/listen of the books (I read them once about 10 years ago!), so I'm probably more influenced by the show. I also love the show (pre series 7!) but have always felt like the writers desperately want us to love Dany, rather than see her as a morally grey character. Whereas in the books I suppose we get to see inside her head, which makes her more nuanced & perhaps less 'conventionally attractive white woman comes along to save the day, yaaas queen, you burn those evil foreign people' vibe. Haha

@jenniferpearce1052

2 жыл бұрын

The Lanister vs. Stark parallels the Wars of the Roses. Dani is a bit like Bonnie Prince Charlie as a expat royal. That's a few hundred years apart. Back off a few years to the Crusades and how Europe viewed the Middle East is roughly how I see the city-states Dani conquers. They aren't as developed because they don't need to be for the story. But also, from a Westerosi POV, understanding isn't necessary because they (the Westerosi) are more cultured. Use of descriptors like mongrel are coming from the character. (I'm a flat-nose myself and dont really think that's a negative descriptor. It just is.) Bear in mind that the other culture would think this in reverse. Slightly off topic, have you read or seen the mini-series Shogun? It's about a Portuguese ship pilot stranded in Japan in the 1700s. There are some great scenes about how each side thinks of themselves as the more cultured and the other as disgusting heathens.

@DavidReadsASoIaF

2 жыл бұрын

@@jenniferpearce1052 it’s funny you should mention it because in my spare time this last week I’ve been rereading Shogun, one of my favorite novels. I think you’re right about the way bias affects the POV characters who we read in Slaver’s Bay (and think this is particularly pronounced with Barristan), but I think, at the same time, that Ghiscari culture really does just suck, even if someone like Barristan misreads things thanks to his biases. One of the things that made Shogun extraordinary, I thought, was that the Japanese characters and Blackthorne really do have things to teach each other. Both are civilized and both are barbaric and horrifying(he also, cleverly, triangulated with the modern reader and the stuff THEY would find horrifying about both cultures mostly, the filth and murderous religious fanaticism of early modern Europe, the hideous brutality of sentencing entire families to death for an individual’s crime in feudal Japan, stuff like that). There’s no equivalent in ASoIaF to James Clavell’s really rich explorations of the Zen Buddhist conceptions of the self and life and death and so on. Which isn’t really a criticism - it makes sense that George doesn’t have this for cultures he made up from cobbling together historical and mythic cultures and spicing them up - just, I don’t think the Slaver’s Bay sections of the series accomplish, or try to accomplish, what Shogun does.

@jenniferpearce1052

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidReadsASoIaF Oh, it's cool that you know what I was getting at! I haven't read the book yet, but saw the mini series for the first time a couple years ago. (I saw parts of it as a toddler, but that doesn't really count!) I agree, there really isn't a place for this in ASoIF. And I think that is a part of looking at ASoIF in a modern context of "does this book treat other cultures appropriately." These aren't real world cultures, but it's important to remember that there's not just one dominant culture. Everyone views the world through their own lens. To suspend disbelief, we need to be engrossed in the character's perspective.

Unborn puppies for dinner?? 🤢😭😭

@simoneriksson8329

2 жыл бұрын

The decadence of Old Ghiz is sickening

@comradestannis

10 ай бұрын

@@simoneriksson8329 It's a racist depiction of "easterners."

30:00

One of best chapters of all books

Girl Dany you can do better than any of these men

by far my favorite Daenerys chapter.

Essos is too Orientalistic.

Essos is so boring compared to Westeros.

And then she knew what?

Gotta be Honest I hate book Jorah

My god it is the worst when you go from a jon or bran charpter to a deanerys one. Let me pause the story you actually care about and give you a one hour ad for whatever Daenerys is doing.

@comradestannis

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, Daenerys chapters are Orientalist, generally, and get progressively more boring going forward.

@hakimehamdouchi7468

10 ай бұрын

@@comradestannis it's like putting down the main series books to pick up a spin off book.

@comradestannis

10 ай бұрын

@@hakimehamdouchi7468 yeah

@HippytheKid419

6 ай бұрын

Boooo!!

Dany chapters are better than the show, but they are still boring.

Strong Belwas voice is perfect

STRONG BELWAS!!!!!!