Berandor said:So far, Martin is not milking it.
Aris Dragonborn said:P.S. Anyone got a line on what the final volume of The Wheel of Time will be called? Just curious.
Berandor said:The series was always to be either six or seven books. He wanted to keep it to six, but said seven was a possibility. Even when he decided to insert a novel into that number, his aim was to keep to six books, not seven. So far, Martin is not milking it.
Starman said:Actually, when he first envisioned the series it was a trilogy. He even outlined it as such. When he wrote the first draft of A Game of Thrones, he realized that he wasn't nearly as far along as he was supposed to be for his trilogy and then expanded it.
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GoodKingJayIII said:Good plotting, good characters, good story. I never really understood the sex scenes in the book. They didn't seem to move the plot all that often, and they're pretty gratuitous as well. Maybe they were necessary and I'm just forgetting stuff (read Swords at least 3 years ago), but they got really irritating. Unless I hear a lot of great things about this newest book, I won't be reading it. The useless sex scenes, I can easily skim or skip those. But the fact that he's dragging the series out for another 3 books just gets under my skin. Milking literature is never a good idea.
Krafus said:If you think GRRM is milking his readers, you haven't read Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series...
As for the sex scenes, I'm glad they're in it. Sex is a part of life, and I'm sick of fantasy authors who give us blood and gore by the bucketful but shy away from any mention of sex.
Captain Tagon said:Except both are extremely lame when added solely for their own sake.
KenM said:IMO they are not in aSoIaF for its own sake. It shows the characters needs, desires and sometimes there brutallity.