I might be tempted to do that, but I'm about 1/3 of the way through Storm of Swords now, so I'll just move right on to Feast for Crows and then Dance with Dragons after that while it's all fresh in my memory.
[July] What are you reading?
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I might be tempted to do that, but I'm about 1/3 of the way through Storm of Swords now, so I'll just move right on to Feast for Crows and then Dance with Dragons after that while it's all fresh in my memory.
AdmundfortGeographer
Getting lost in fantasy maps
Really really good stuff. I did not see the ending coming. Rereading it, knowing the ending ahead of times, changes much. But I have it on my reread pile now.
Finished Dance with Dragons this morning (ah, the joy of getting it by the internet to my kindle). Sadly, whilst the writing is still entertaining, not enough happens.
Urgh. For a book it took him 10 years to write, GRRM really loses track of little things like advancing the plot. Way too much of the book is setting up false expectations that get dashed - journeys to somewhere which never actually reach their destinations.
This could be forgiven if the book had come out in 2002. It's a lot harder now, especially as GRRM now has form for not writing quickly. Anyone want to wager on when book 6 will come out? Later than 2013 will be deadly for the series.
Urgh. For a book it took him 10 years to write, GRRM really loses track of little things like advancing the plot. Way too much of the book is setting up false expectations that get dashed - journeys to somewhere which never actually reach their destinations.
This could be forgiven if the book had come out in 2002. It's a lot harder now, especially as GRRM now has form for not writing quickly. Anyone want to wager on when book 6 will come out? Later than 2013 will be deadly for the series.
AdmundfortGeographer
Getting lost in fantasy maps
It will be delayed long enough that Brandon Sanderson will author it, as it happened with Wheel of Time. With similar fan response.
Krug
Newshound
Hopefully now that he's married, his wife can chide him into working on the next few books. I think Crows and Dragons is kind of setting up the third act, and bringing the elements of political intrigue with the world-destroying threat together. Well only 10% done with Dragons so a lot more to go..
Unfortunately, Brandon Sanderson is busy with his own 10 volume series. We could get Kevin J Anderson to finish it?
jonesy
A Wicked Kendragon
How'd you get that year?
2012: Clash of Kings.
2013: Storm of Swords, part 1. (since there's talk of splitting it into two seasons)
2014: Storm of Swords, part 2.
2015-16> Feast+Dance chronologically.
So the next book should be ready sometime before 2016-17 for the tv series to continue.
Not the TV series; the ongoing book series.
George R R Martin is 62. Robert Jordan was 58 when he died. Terry Pratchett is 63 and struggling with Alzheimer's.
GRRM doesn't really have a lot of time left. He took 10 years to write one book (yes, it was split into two but it was meant to be one book). What makes things even worse is that I can't see how he can finish the series in two books.
If you consider the structure of the Wheel of Time, the ending of the series was very clear from the beginning, and it has just become clearer as it goes on: Rand must meet the Dark One on the slopes of Shayol Ghul. Jordan was a master of using prophecy and foreshadowing, so that you knew what was to come, but not exactly how.
Do you have any idea of what the end of A Song of Ice and Fire will be? There's been the strong suggestion that the Others will rise and provide the foe uniting the remaining forces (and Dany + dragons must drive them back), but it seems difficult to see where that could come in the final two books. (And if it's "Others rise, Dragons drive them back" in two chapters, how disappointing!)
If GRRM can do it, I'll be very happy, but AFFC and ADWD have been disappointing from a structual viewpoint, to put it mildly.
Cheers!
George R R Martin is 62. Robert Jordan was 58 when he died. Terry Pratchett is 63 and struggling with Alzheimer's.
GRRM doesn't really have a lot of time left. He took 10 years to write one book (yes, it was split into two but it was meant to be one book). What makes things even worse is that I can't see how he can finish the series in two books.
If you consider the structure of the Wheel of Time, the ending of the series was very clear from the beginning, and it has just become clearer as it goes on: Rand must meet the Dark One on the slopes of Shayol Ghul. Jordan was a master of using prophecy and foreshadowing, so that you knew what was to come, but not exactly how.
Do you have any idea of what the end of A Song of Ice and Fire will be? There's been the strong suggestion that the Others will rise and provide the foe uniting the remaining forces (and Dany + dragons must drive them back), but it seems difficult to see where that could come in the final two books. (And if it's "Others rise, Dragons drive them back" in two chapters, how disappointing!)
If GRRM can do it, I'll be very happy, but AFFC and ADWD have been disappointing from a structual viewpoint, to put it mildly.
Cheers!
jmucchiello
Hero
Sure, after reading the first four books and reading articles on the Tower of the Hand wiki, I'm expecting
Daenerys Targaryen and Jon "Snow" Targaryen to marry and drive the Others back behind the wall, or perhaps destroy them forever.
Jon discovers his heritage when just about everyone aware of it (Rhaegar, Lyanna, Ned, et.al.) is dead.
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