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In It For The Tank posted:I only started reading ASOIAF in 2012, and this made me feel super loving old. I feel sorry for everyone who has been waiting even longer than me. It’s ridiculous fun reading the comments on Reddit that are full of variations of “I had just met my new girlfriend. We’re now married and have a kid in the 3rd grade.”
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:It’s ridiculous fun reading the comments on Reddit that are full of variations of “I had just met my new girlfriend. We’re now married and have a kid in the 3rd grade.” Hopefully the kid isn't one of the many unfortunate children named Khalessi. At least those girls whose idiot parents named them Daenyrs can just go by Dany and claim it's short for Danielle and not a reference to fantasy Dragon Hilter.
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nine-gear crow posted:Is it still that dude's bare rear end on a block of ice? Didn't know what you were talking about until I looked further down the google search and found the picture under "Corpse Queen" mildly NSFW for https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Corpse_queen Then there's this picture in the section for Night's Queen. Looks pretty cool despite the : https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Night%27s_Queen
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In It For The Tank posted:I only started reading ASOIAF in 2012, and this made me feel super loving old. I feel sorry for everyone who has been waiting even longer than me. You know those "Get 5 books for (x units of your local currency) at a super cheap rate, then just order 1 book a month thereafter" subscriptions that used to be a thing. I got, and read the first Game of Thrones book in one of those offers. In 1997. Deptfordx fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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Deptfordx posted:You know those "Get 5 books for (x units of your local currency) at a super cheap rate, then just order 1 book a month thereafter" subscriptions that used to be a thing. Hahaha you dumb bastard.
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Deptfordx posted:You know those "Get 5 books for (x units of your local currency) at a super cheap rate, then just order 1 book a month thereafter" subscriptions that used to be a thing.
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# ? Apr 29, 2021 01:16 |
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I started reading the series in...early 2001, I think, when aSoS was still a recent release. The big reason I started reading it was that it had been recommended to me as being better than Wheel of Time, with less time between books
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# ? Apr 29, 2021 01:24 |
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2006 here, started in a train station. On/off starts until finishing with the ADWD release. Haven't touched a word since.
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# ? Apr 29, 2021 01:32 |
I started just after season one aired. I was working in a bookstore at the time and while I liked fantasy novels, a lot of them were TOO high fantasy for me and I thought ASOIAF would be too. My friend watched the show and recommended it to me, so I gave it a shot. I haven't had you wait nearly as long as you guys, but I still managed to get in a cross country move, get married, and changed careers twice between reading ADWD and now. Shits crazy.
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# ? Apr 29, 2021 03:06 |
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I gave permission for someone to spoil me on AffC four years or so after it came out thinking I would never read the series (and the dude wanted to have a rant / conversation). I should've left it at that!
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# ? Apr 29, 2021 04:56 |
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I had friends reading the series in highschool, around 2007, but I never picked up the books until university. So i probably started reading them in 2009 or so. My girlfriend in college was a big fan of the series and we watched the early seasons and really enjoyed them. Never found out what she thought of the ending haha.
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# ? Apr 29, 2021 16:07 |
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In the alt universe where there are new books, I would kill for a spinoff about the numerous (mis) adventures of Oberyn Martell
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# ? Apr 30, 2021 08:42 |
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Late 2005 here. Affc just got released. MEANWHILE ON THE WALL
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# ? Apr 30, 2021 11:19 |
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Kellanved posted:Late 2005 here. Affc just got released. MEANWHILE ON THE WALL He said the next half of the story would be out in one year. I won’t pretend I even knew ASOIAF existed at the time thank god for that but I’ll always love that.
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# ? Apr 30, 2021 17:45 |
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Maybe I said it here already, but I started the series right befire FfC, got really excited and ordered it Day One, then my idiot bookshop screwed up the order and I had to wait A WHOLE MONTH to read the book. Felt like like such bullshit at the time for a sweet summer child like me.
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# ? Apr 30, 2021 19:43 |
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I'm going to break into GRRM's office, relearn how to use DOS, download the five sentences for Winds that he has completed, and PM all of you spoilers.
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# ? May 1, 2021 22:26 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:I'm going to break into GRRM's office, relearn how to use DOS, download the five sentences for Winds that he has completed, and PM all of you spoilers. neeps on a nuncle!
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# ? May 2, 2021 02:30 |
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The winds of the winter. Those wintery winds that came to Westeros. The winds, those being of winter of course. Those winds had come to Westeros. Yes those winds, those winter winds.
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# ? May 2, 2021 02:40 |
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I dreamed a dream of spring gone by When hope was high and books releasing I dreamed that Jon would never die I dreamed that GRRM would be forgiving
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# ? May 2, 2021 03:19 |
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Ten more years Ten more years And on the tenth anniversary We found out Just what GRRM is An absolute fucker
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# ? May 2, 2021 04:24 |
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Say hypothetically that the estate of Grumm cobbles together something from his notes when he dies and sells it for money. Where would that leave the story? Dany still sharting in Essos and maybe the end of Stannis I guess, the stuff from the later seasons slip from memory as I try to recall it.
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# ? May 2, 2021 15:14 |
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Whizzing Wizard posted:Say hypothetically that the estate of Grumm cobbles together something from his notes when he dies and sells it for money. It's a good thing Gurm doesn't have kids or there's gonna be 25 books about the adventures of Young Griff and a detailed backstory about the battle of the bells in 2 encyclopedic volumes.
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# ? May 2, 2021 15:46 |
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mind the walrus posted:The winds of the winter. A cold wind rose in Winterfell. The peasants called them winds of Winter. The wind was not the beginni...
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# ? May 2, 2021 15:54 |
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Words are wind.
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Whizzing Wizard posted:Say hypothetically that the estate of Grumm cobbles together something from his notes when he dies and sells it for money. There’s probably like 800 manuscript pages of something that could be cobbled together and named “Winds of Winter.” Beside that I am absolutely positive that there are no notes or outlines to be found. GRRM’s entire “gardener” approach really doesn’t allow it.
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# ? May 2, 2021 17:51 |
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pseudanonymous posted:It's a good thing Gurm doesn't have kids or there's gonna be 25 books about the adventures of Young Griff and a detailed backstory about the battle of the bells in 2 encyclopedic volumes. What if he testaments everything to those two that helped him keep track of stuff?
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# ? May 3, 2021 11:17 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:He said the next half of the story would be out in one year. I won’t pretend I even knew ASOIAF existed at the time thank god for that but I’ll always love that. IIRC what he actually said was that the book was done but was too large, so it would have to be released as 2 books separately. And only then did we realize he never wrote any of the other characters yet.
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# ? May 3, 2021 13:13 |
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Hasselblad posted:IIRC what he actually said was that the book was done but was too large, so it would have to be released as 2 books separately. And only then did we realize he never wrote any of the other characters yet. Yeah, the whole "Meanwhile, at the Wall..." thing basically claimed that he wrote so much that he realized it would never fit into a single book, so at a certain point he decided to just split the POVs, but don't worry because he already had written like an entire half of another book, so he could totally get it done in the next year or so. Then 5 years later he released Dance and was all "well I couldn't just leave you hanging on what happened with Arya's cliffhanger for 10 whole years!"...which he had already done with Tyrion, Jon and Dany by the time he finally released Dance...and which now it's been another 10 full years since Jon's even bigger cliffhanger lmao Edit: here is the text for those that don't have their copy of AFFC handy: GRRRM posted:MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE WALL . . . Guy A. Person fucked around with this message at 15:55 on May 3, 2021 |
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I read that at the time as meaning that the next part was basically done and figured I'd had to wait a year or two for editing(lol), printing and so on. Considering Feast and Dance as two parts of the same book, it actually took him 11 years to write which means that even if he was actually writing, considering the slowing pace between books the theoretical release date of Winds is still years away (it will never come out while Railroad lives)
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# ? May 3, 2021 16:08 |
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Guys this is the bad thread, Feast and Dance are two thirds of an unfinished book.
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# ? May 3, 2021 16:17 |
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ADWD only even came out at all because the publishers still had power over him at the time and basically grabbed the manuscript out of his hands right? Because lmao that he had to cut out not one but two climactic battles. Like 1/3 of Winds will be stuff that was meant to be in the last book. This series needs 8 books minimum lol
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# ? May 3, 2021 16:53 |
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Other than the Aeron chapter, which was just a bit weird, every excerpt released by Gurm in cons was either pointless or bad. The Arya one was impressively awful. Like, fanfiction level kinds of terrible. So my guess is that whatever he has written until this point is just filler he is trying to prop up with the few events he can fit into the narrative. Dany being walked to Vaes Dothrak. Tyrion getting acquanted in the storytelling morass that is Mereen. Sam emptying bedpans back in school while something creeeepy happens in the background. Maaaaybe Jon Snow waking up in a hidden cellar as the very last thing that happens.
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3104213&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=482#post382133813ZeeBoi posted:Here's the thing: A Dance with Dragons finally comes out, everyone devours that book within a day, and then... you wait another decade for The Winds of Winter.
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# ? May 3, 2021 17:22 |
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some bust on that guy posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3104213&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=482#post382133813 Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this forum a new thread, concieved in hatred and dedicated to the proposition that that fat gently caress is never going to finish the goddamn book. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that thread or any thread so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their accounts that that thread might remain ungassed. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this, because the book still isn't out and GRRM has yet to die.
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# ? May 3, 2021 17:26 |
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there, I fulfilled a prophecy unlike GRRM who will never write the conclusion to any of his
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# ? May 3, 2021 17:27 |
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Guy A. Person posted:Yeah, the whole "Meanwhile, at the Wall..." thing basically claimed that he wrote so much that he realized it would never fit into a single book, so at a certain point he decided to just split the POVs, but don't worry because he already had written like an entire half of another book, so he could totally get it done in the next year or so. I prebooked ADWD based on this phrase. 5 years later my bookshop asked me “you have prebooked this book for five years, do you still want it”. I should have taken the hint.
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# ? May 3, 2021 17:41 |
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Irish Revenge, Sep 26, 2008 posted:I don't understand what the hell this guy is doing. I have not read a Feast for Crows yet. because I was told in this thread it would probably be better to wait until ADWD is out and read them back to back, and AFFC is too slow. So for two years now I've been waiting for this loving book to come out. Once every couple months I check his blog to see if there's an update. And every time I'm disappointed to see that he still hasn't finished, yet he's had time to gently caress around with the dozens of "side" projects he has going on and all the other ridiculous poo poo. A TV show, I can understand. Some conventions, sure. But what is with the dozens of other projects? How about not spending time writing comic books and work on the drat book? Wheee, Feb 5, 2009 posted:
EVGA Longoria, Sep 23, 2008 posted:
FuriousxGeorge, July 14, 2010 posted:He gets no more money from me, I'm pirating the gently caress out of Dance whenever whoever they pay to write it after he dies finishes it. Chair Huxtable, Jul 14, 2010 posted:I hate him so much right now. Every time he says something like that I think "yup, it's Wild Cards." But then this tiny little flash of hope wells up in me and I read the post. Then I scream incoherently with rage. Chair Huxable, Jun 27, 2010 posted:Take those chapters and shove them up your rear end, GRRM. Seriously, does he think we'll all fall down and fellate him because he moved some chapters into the next book? Chapters that weren't even planned for the book he swore was half done five years ago? Go gently caress a lemoncake you fat piece of poo poo.
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# ? May 3, 2021 18:05 |
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It's funny going back that as mad as everyone got in 2008-2010, they probably still wouldn't have dreamed that it would be 2021 and the 6th book still wouldn't be out.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:25 |
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I definitely feel like an author has an informal contract with readers to deliver the series if the initial book is pitched as part of a series. And they have an explicit contract with the publisher, although with these mega-success stories the publisher is never going to exert too much pressure on the author to actually deliver. It's why I get a bit tired with the endless defenses of Martin and Rothfuss. Sure, you can't rush art. But you can put art on a schedule. You can find ways to reduce scope. You can try to treat the writing like a job with deadlines and consequences. Everyone who has ever worked on a tv show or any collaborative project knows this. With authors we throw it out the windows because its a singular effort, but I would like to see a bit more discipline on their part to actually produce. It's not like they don't have willing editors at the ready to help shape a torrent of words into something coherent and enjoyable.
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