I was going to listen to the A Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks, but the narrator for them just sounds horrible to me... I tried listening to a sample and I was constantly taken out of the fiction by his distracting voice.

Also: a song of ice and fire is a book with a narrative structure that I really like (a soap opera, but in a "historical" fantasy), but I resent a lot of the gross stuff in it. Are there any similarly *structured* books that aren't as edgy?