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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 5168832" data-attributes="member: 4720">Do you see the exact same posters commenting year-to-year, Fast Learner?  I doubt it.For example, this is the first year I bothered to weigh in here on GRRM at all.  Until recently I hadn't read any of his books because I didn't want to pick up another unfinished series.I waited until I heard Dance with Dragons was coming out to even start reading the series, so I didn't read it until 2007 or 2008, I think.  (So there are people with more than a decade more investment in this series than myself... poor bastards.)Additionally, there's the TV show, which is a real mixed bag to me.  It dredges up all my old concerns about the dreadful turn towards investment in extraneous characters and flat-out plot obfuscation that began to happen in the last book... which made me seriously doubt my decision to finally start reading the series.On the other hand, the editorial and timing requirements of a TV format might be what is necessary to put a boot in his ass and make him write the story, so this has returned some degree of hope.It is hope, not doubt, that fuels my ability to post on these subjects.  But the doubt colors my ability to think well of any of it.  Alas, the hope is looking for a compelling argument for its existence, and finding little of use.  The doubt, however, is up to its elbows in crass commercialism and B.S.EDIT:Incidentally, I know I'm not picking up any more of the books until every single one of them is out and the story is finished.  If the TV show is any good, that will probably become my canonical version, because I can't imagine it will wander quite so aimlessly given that HBO tends to limit the number of seasons on these things.</blockquote>

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