I found them rather "studied" and, if anything, a bit
too accurate - which sounds odd, even to me , but by that I mean he was almost pushing it in front of the storylines, which I found a bit ho-hum.......
But I did give up after a couple, I must admit.
So many books, .....

[ But the TV series, well, with Derek Jacobi, they could do little else
but be good.. but again, it got a little tired I thought. ]