A Feast for Crows Update.

[KnowTheToe]

" I'd hardly call characterization "fluff" though.

IMO, it can be, but since I have not read the blurb in question, I can't say if it indeed was in this instance. I couldn't even say what characters were in the chapter. If I remember correctly it was about the Greyjoy Clan and their thread in the story.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

I think I'm done with A Song of Fire and Ice. I really no longer care if another book ever comes out.

 

[MacMathan]

Wow, I guess I just keep busy reading other stuff. I have never understood the hostility towards it taking a long time to write a book. The creative process can take a long time and takes a personal toll energy-wise so I can see it being many years between books. It is not like he is trying to just schlock something together quickly for cash, even though ti obvious from the demand he could, that is when most series go down the toilet. Explore other authors people.

 

[Melkor Lord Of ALL!]

Luckily I have discovered the series a month ago, so waiting won`t be that terrible.

 

[Avouz]

I think I'm done with A Song of Fire and Ice. I really no longer care if another book ever comes out.

Herein lies the problem with taking so long between volumes. I first got introduced to ASOIAF last year, so I've only been waiting a year or so for Feast of Crows. I can imagine a lot of GRRM's other fans starting to say stuff like this though.

By the time the series is finished, will there be any of us left?

 

[Lord Pendragon]

I think I'm done with A Song of Fire and Ice. I really no longer care if another book ever comes out.

I find it interesting that waiting can dull your interest so much. For me, I might stop anticipating a new novel in a series that's taking a while to get out, but as soon as the next book hits the shelves I'm all over it like white on rice.

Time doesn't dull my enthusiasm for a great series, it only postpones it.

Bad books, now, that will kill my enthusiasm. Jordan seems to pump out his Wheel of Time books fairly quickly, but I stopped caring about the series by book five.

 

[Particle_Man]

Herein lies the problem with taking so long between volumes. I first got introduced to ASOIAF last year, so I've only been waiting a year or so for Feast of Crows. I can imagine a lot of GRRM's other fans starting to say stuff like this though.

By the time the series is finished, will there be any of us left?

Of course there will. First of all, there are some fans (like me) that will wait 10 or 20 years to read the next books in the series, if that is what it takes. We are patient.

Second, there are youngsters now that will grow up to become readers. That will be true barring the end of the world/death of the author. So that, when the last book in the series does come out, there will be people that have not yet read the first book in the series. These people will be able to read all of the books, without any waiting period.

 

[EricNoah]

I have never understood the hostility towards it taking a long time to write a book.

Ditto. No biggie to me -- of course I want to read the next one, but there's also something kind of cool about knowing that I might still be reading this series in my mid-40s!

 

[JoeBlank]

I don't mind the wait, but I am concerned about remembering everything that has gone on before. I find so little time to read, I can't devote a large chunk to rereading the entire series every time a new book comes out.

Hopefully when the time comes I'll be able to find a decent summary somewhere. I seem to recall chapter-by-chapter recaps on a website, and that might be handy.

 

[Asmo]

I just buy the books as they come out (and not reading them) and wait until he´s finished - I´m doing that with all series nowadays. Jordan learnt me that lesson.
( I hate when I don´t remember what happened in the previous book )


Asmo