I looked but haven't seen it mentioned, sorry if it was: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/136596-Game-of-Thrones-Author-Admits-Pressure-to-Finish-Books-Affect-Him quote:George R.R. Martin says he's "given up" on answering when the A Song of Ice and Fire novels will be finished, and confirms the pressure from both HBO and fans gets under his skin. More loving whining. quote:Obligation is an odd word, I don't know if I would go with that word. I certainly feel a desire to finish the book. Well that sure is good to hear!
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# ¿ Aug 5, 2014 02:29 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 12:16 |
mind the walrus posted:Not a drop of sympathy for the fat gently caress. He knew exactly what was coming for years and now he gets to pay the price. And so do we-- what started as a seriously above-average fantasy epic that could have really resonated for a long time to come is now all but consigned to end on a middling and disappointing note whether it's through the pallid echo of a show adaptation or GRRM every plopping his fat rear end in front of a desk and grinding out the rest of the books. But at least he has a desire to finish the next book! That's something! But really, that seriously pissed me off the most. Okay sure you're an artist and we don't deserve anything and blah blah we've heard it all before. But you know millions are waiting for this book, you couldn't buy your dumb loving theater without those fans, but hey, you have the desire to finish the next book! Sweet! I'm glad you have desire to work on the only thing you'll be remembered for you fat gently caress. BTW loved you at Comicon, really grinding that book out!
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# ¿ Aug 5, 2014 03:05 |
http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/08/weird-al-yankovic-politely-begged-george-r-r-martin-to-get-back-to-writing/
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# ¿ Aug 26, 2014 03:17 |
Kavak posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoh_2nF-Rxs Funeral?
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2014 23:01 |
Mr. Grumpybones posted:OK so I know this is going to sound far-fetched but I have insider information on the next book. First though I need to tell you how I came by it since this is the internet and we're all skeptics here and why believe some dude fat dude like me.
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# ¿ Oct 22, 2014 00:49 |
Kurtofan posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_nkZ-Y2XhU So excited for the game. Also, in that past article: quote:The 65-year old bestselling author further elaborates on Digital Spy (via BeautyWorldNews.com) that he is taking his time to finish his draft. That poor boy. Maybe he needs to rest in his own theater a lil longer in between 'Con appearances. Stop traveling everywhere you idiot. I'm really starting to believe that GRRM just don't give a gently caress. If I was his age, as gluttonous, and making millions from someone else using my work.. poo poo can we blame him? I'd do it easily. Let HBO make the ending, then write that with some more details of food and there you go.
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# ¿ Nov 21, 2014 01:21 |
re: Bakker: Is he the black demon sperm guy? e: err demon black sperm guy? Barreft fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Nov 26, 2014 |
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2014 04:30 |
OhYeah posted:I don't know where to begin. The overall drop in quality in both the books and the TV show is astounding... in every aspect. I'm a newcomer to the ASOIAF world and the first three books and the first three seasons are just so much better than what came after.
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# ¿ Jun 17, 2015 03:57 |
Just look at this creep. You have one of the best TV series going and you can't be assed to finish a book in over a decade. Absolute Fucker indeed.
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2017 02:16 |
Invicta{HOG}, M.D. posted:Yeah, I think that the main assault had to happen in order for the sneak attack to work. You'd like to think that most of the Unsullied were in the castle rather than on the boats. I'd love to see Dothraki and dragons take out the rest of the Lannisters and Tarley. That's next episode. e: Barreft fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Aug 3, 2017 |
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# ¿ Aug 3, 2017 05:28 |
TXT BOOTY7 2 47474 posted:Sunday's episode has the first good and cool thing in years happen, when bronn shoots a dragon through the eye with a ballista. wat, it's Drogon and he's shot in his side not his eye.
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2017 05:34 |
kcroy posted:What was his dealio anyway - he was a wight, but not a wight? how'd that happen. He said he was in the process of being turned to a WW when the Children stabbed him with dragonglass. Is that right? It's what I seem to remember but it opens up so many other questions my head hurts.
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# ¿ Oct 25, 2017 04:12 |
kcroy posted:ok thanks, and yeah, that opens up a bunch of other questions. Looked it up to check: quote:Until the season-six episode “Blood of My Blood,” that is. In that episode, we learned that Benjen Stark was stabbed in the gut with a sword of ice by a White Walker, but the Children of the Forest intervened by shoving a handy blade of dragonglass into his chest to prevent the magic from taking hold. (Someday, we need a dragonglass 101 tutorial: How can it turn you into a White Walker, prevent you from becoming a wight, and kill a White Walker, all in one. Is there anything it can’t do?)
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2017 21:58 |
counterfeitsaint posted:I still don't understand why the 2019 thing is surprising anyone at all. At the end of season 6 they said they 7 & 8 would be shorter, and they'd need longer to make them because of CGI. Then they took 18 months to put out season 7. Why would anyone expect less than 18 months for season 8? This. Although the time is much longer between seasons, I feel GOT 7 - 8 is like Breaking Bad 5a - 5b. I'm NOT talking quality wise, but the people invested in the show are going to watch, their anticipation waiting this long to finally see the end, the ratings will be huge. I know we'll all cynical here, me too, but there's no way the last 6 episodes don't smash ratings, torrents, or whatever the gently caress.
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2018 02:55 |
nine-gear crow posted:Well you're in luck because HBO's greenlit four GoT spin-offs to kill us all slowly with once the mothership wraps next year. I will be there for every second of--BAHAHAHAHA no gently caress this series, I'm out once the final Big Head, Little Head card pops up on screen at the end of 8x06. Uuuugh, just like Star Wars. Cause we all wanted a Star Wars movie every 6 months, right right? uugh e: every 6 months for the next loving century e2: months may not be factually accurate but feels that way.
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2018 08:19 |
Pash posted:What about how the other day Rothfuss posted a blog apologizing for being so slow at writing... his blog. https://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2018/08/a-blog-if-only-barely/ I just.. can't with humans anymore.
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2018 04:18 |
mind the walrus posted:Pure speculation but maybe they were waiting for the prequel show so they could repeat what they did with Dance, and they've spent the past two years dumbfounded at just how much goodwill and cultural cachet was evaporated by that last season. humanity's biggest fault is having empathy for lifes biggest fuckers. 'but maybe..' no. just no.
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# ¿ Dec 19, 2020 05:55 |
When did Ty stop being gurm's editor or whatever?
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2021 02:21 |
TERFherder posted:I liked the bittersweet aspect of that relationship; that Jon couldn't be sure it wasn't his arrow that killed her. And that at some level it didn't matter. They each did what they had to do, and this was how it turned out, and they got to have some fun along the way, and isn't that basically life? Love and death all rolled up together. They turned a touching moment of character development into... whatever that atrocity was. What, wait really? No way, you seriously gotta watch the last two. I'll even gift you something from here if you watch them and livepost it, well uhh $10 max I dunno I never gifted anyone anything , you must watch it and die inside. How can you skip the last two?? COURAGE.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2021 03:22 |
gently caress grrm
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2021 03:55 |
I love these stupid clickbait sites. But honestly this sounds like the normal musk/star citizen/etc mentality
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2021 04:36 |
kaworu posted:The whole "gardening" thing seemed absurd to me at first, but when you stop and think about it, it actually kinda makes sense. I think GRRM's more of a lazy farmer than a gardener, though - he did a lot of sincere hard work in setting up the operation, plowing the fields and planting everything initially. Now he just harvests the crop every year and does the minimal amount of work for maximum payoff. Logical, in a way. He doesn't do poo poo. He just can't straight up admit he isn't writing anymore cause his publisher can sue him or something. It's Chris Roberts/Musky etc.
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# ¿ Jul 3, 2021 05:30 |
It doesn't matter, it's all poo poo and no one cares. Thanks D&D and GRRM for showing us the American dream
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2021 04:00 |
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# ¿ Jul 13, 2021 01:35 |
I love how it's been 10 years since ADWD but no one's mentiones it's been like whatever years since the first half of the book. Dude hasn't been in it since Crown of Swords, and he's really just laughing in everyone's faces now for like 2 decades. E: storm of swords? Whatever, it doesn't matter Barreft fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Jul 13, 2021 |
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# ¿ Jul 13, 2021 04:03 |
All this stuff about YiTi gives off big starcitizen.dreams.txt vibes
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# ¿ Jul 20, 2021 00:25 |
GRRM clearly gives no fucks, YiTi was completely made up by those two weird superfans and means nothing. I hate the word cope now since copium etc, but I can't think of a better one. Delusion?
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# ¿ Jul 20, 2021 04:36 |
pseudanonymous posted:Aren't the people who actually put it together pretty vile? The two hardcore fans that he basically relies on b/c he doesn't care about Westeros have done some troubling things. Yeah the whole thing is fanfic from the westeros.org or whatever nazi couple
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# ¿ Jul 21, 2021 01:43 |
Coquito Ergo Sum posted:I'm running off the assumption that he had to split the book like other people have said, and I still stand by my theory. I actually feel a little bad for him in the sense that he has to try to work that into a whole new book. I don't feel bad for him due to the fact that he's one of those writers that likes to do zany stuff like compose on a Wordstar* that's as old as I am. Someone asked if he works with an editor and I have to wonder what it's like to have to deal with his writing process in 2021 with some of the largest entertainment corporations breathing down your neck. Why would you feel bad for him, he's not working anything into a whole new book. He's building castles and riding choo choo trains ffs
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# ¿ Jul 21, 2021 03:17 |
Justin Credible posted:They made an entire TV series out of his books, in between the time it took him for DwD to.. now, without the new book being completed. Im thinking Ty wrote the books.
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2022 05:12 |
Kuiperdolin posted:Even GRRM acknowledged he should not have made the kids that young, it's an artifact from when the books were to span a much longer time (and they did, just not in universe) bullshit. it turns him on we all know it call it damage control
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2022 01:55 |
Shimrra Jamaane posted:So then why did GRRM decide to ever get into writing an epic fantasy series? I guess it didn’t seem such a daunting task when he originally envisioned it as a trilogy that would be completed by the late 90s.
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2022 02:37 |
Shimrra Jamaane posted:Personally I think maximum hilarity is that the book does come out, it is legitimately huge, but maintains the painfully slow meandering plot pace of the last two books so that it ends with Dany still yet to reach Westeros. Maybe the epilogue is Jon being resurrected. it's not coming out
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# ¿ May 2, 2022 02:47 |
We all know he gets hard thinking of sexually active kids. First look at him. Second read his books and see who he hangs out with. and if still, still you doubt, the Mercy chapter itself should prove it. Let alone Dany and *waves hands around at everything*.
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# ¿ May 4, 2022 01:03 |
I don't, gently caress him.
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# ¿ May 11, 2022 16:16 |
I do not want anymore GRRM books after reading Mercy getting ready for her Rape.
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# ¿ Jun 3, 2022 03:10 |
Is Mercy ready for her Rape? Grrm, Rothfuss, all them guys are so hosed up. The rapist boomer hugo league
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# ¿ Jun 4, 2022 03:58 |
Coquito Ergo Sum posted:Ty Franck said specifically that the time for that has past, but I think his attitude would change with the amounts of zeroes that they would draw on a check. The only living author I can think of that could finish the series in their lifetime is maybe Christopher Buehlman. Ty absolutely wrote most of the books. Just like GRRM needed the two nazi megafans to do the history books after Ty was gone.
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# ¿ Jun 11, 2022 01:30 |
Preston doesn't know poo poo. GRRM has no new pages.
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# ¿ Jun 11, 2022 04:36 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 12:16 |
Thinking about it.. what are the actors of Jon, Sansa, Arya, Bran, Tyrion, Bronn etc even doing right now? If they did a straight sequel with actual good showrunners I think I'd like it a lot. But just Jon? lmao no
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# ¿ Jun 20, 2022 02:25 |