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I'll be back.
Join Date: Nov 2002
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House of the Dragon
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: KC North
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He needs to finish it just to get the ****ing taste of GoT's seasons 7 and 8 out of our collective mouths. Charges should be brought up against D&D, let's be real here.
And to give Barristan Selmy a proper end to his story. Christ. |
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#707 |
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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If its finished he's sitting on a massive pay day.
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Has a particular set of skills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: JoCo
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At the very least, I would think an author with any integrity would respect that. |
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#712 | |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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As sprawling as the HBO series ended up around season 6, it was nothing compared to the books. I mean there are entire POV characters that got deleted from the series that are still bouncing around the book universe. I mentioned this years ago but GRRM is someone who 'loses control of his instrument' so to speak. He can't help but get bogged down in details and he often struggles badly to keep his story coherent. And his answer to a loose thread somewhere is to try to use that thread to knit another sweater. He's seemingly disinterest or perhaps incapable of simply cutting off the thread. He just reminds me so much of Stephen King in that regard. The expanded version of The Stand is what happens when everything goes right in that regard. Sometimes you manage to take the plane through all that turbulence, do a couple barrel rolls and put it on the tarmac. Then you have The Gunslinger series when he just kept doing loops until he put the damn thing into a mountain. 3 books in, he could've still brought this sucker home in a satisfying fashion. But instead he just kept getting broader and broader. When he tried to write book 4 and it was too long and unwieldy to put in one book, that should've been a sign to him that he was on the wrong track. And instead of taking that overly long and convoluted story and editing the shit out of it, he just decided to make it two books. Nothing he's said since then has been more demonstrative of his mindset than how he had to handle Feast and Dance. Hey George, when you can't decided on pizza or fried chicken, the answer shouldn't be full sized portions of each. This applies in both your writing and your life. |
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#713 |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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Having forced my way through the conclusion to the Dune series with Kevin Anderson and Brian Herbert....I think I'll pass.
I never read Wheel of Time but I hear that Sanderson did well enough with those. I just think it's so rare. Even reading the "Tom Clancy With..." books that guys like Mark Greaney co-authored with him is simply jarring. And the "Tom Clancy's..." books that came after he died are worse still. And those don't have anywhere near the world-building that stuff like ASOIAF and Dune have had. |
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#714 |
"You like to drink?"
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: "I like to drink."
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Maybe he's doing a reverse ADWD/AFFC where he's working on both Winds and Dream simultaneously?
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Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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If he were working on them at all (and again, I don't think he is or has any designs on doing so), he'd end up turning those 2 books into 5. And those 5 into 9. He's just lost the plot. |
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#717 | |
"You like to drink?"
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: "I like to drink."
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Just a ASOIAF Wiki peruser. I've read the samples of the first few novels to see how GRRMs style compares or contrasts to Fevre Dream and Way of the Cross and Dragon. |
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#718 |
You gotta kill a few people
Join Date: Sep 2007
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He’s got everything going on with the Ironborn as well. Victarion is on a collision course with Daenerys, Barristan, and the newly freed dragons with the dragon binding horn and Euron’s doing some weird shit around Oldtown.
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#719 |
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Join Date: Jan 2013
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I hope he finishes it so my boy stannis can get a proper ending.
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#720 |
You gotta kill a few people
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Hah, my goodness. It’s been so long I forget how far behind GRRM is..
He’s basically got to iron out two wars in the beginning of Winds with Stannis at Winterfell and Daenerys vs Victarion in Meereen or wherever. Jon Snow just got stabbed to death, Bran is still in the cave with Bloodraven, and Brienne & Jaime are probably going to be brought to zombie Catelyn. |
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