Game of Thrones 10 minute preview
By
2short2care,
Posted on: 2010-12-07 08:47 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Quote:
Paying customers can buy the book or not. GRRM has made some mistakes in over-communicating in the past, but that doesn't justify people screaming at him to finish a series he started before he dies. The books will come out or they won't, and if he does pass before he finishes then the publisher will just hire someone else to finish them. I bet GRRM has better notes on his series than Jordan did on WoT.|
Originally Posted by Ironik
Then he should shut the **** up about finishing the next book. Stop getting your fans' -- your PAYING CUSTOMERS -- hopes up and then have a failure to launch. Take some Author Viagra and get back to work. This isn't an impatience thing, this is a "he will die before he finishes the series" thing. Me, I don't care any more, I'm done with it. One good book out of four isn't enough to keep me interested.
|
Since GRRM is not your *****, you don't get to complain about how and when he talks about his work.
Agua Man lvl 48 Water/Electric Blaster
"To die hating NCSoft for shutting down City of Heroes, that was Freedom."
Quote:
Feast of Crows came out in 2005|
Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
I'm sure he did. I think I read the original target for books was 8. (looks at number of WoT books) Um, yeah. He went a wee bit past that. I remember when I started to get lost in the WoT series, Book 6 maybe. I read reviews about Games of Thrones and it was literally billed as for people tired of the WoT series.
WoT series is going to be so huge I wonder if a credible 8 book series could be made out of it, but I would be curious how it would read. I had never read anything over 1K in pages. For me to read a series with multiple books like that and keep track of everything was an achievement. It just got too much for me when the list of characters grew to where I started losing track of people and somebody who I thought was awesome in one book doesn't show up again until late in the next book and not for long and book 6 wasn't even that part where it really got bad for being long winded either. I don't think fans of the Game of Thrones series really worry about the quality of the books. They just want them finished. I just went and looked it up. I know a singer/songwriter and author who has put out 3 albums, 2 albums of B-sides, and two novels since A Feast of Crowns came out. |
looks at Brandon Sanderson who has done a great job with WoT
Since 2005
two WoT books
the Way of Kings
his three Mistborn books
as well as some other stuff.
I think Martin like Jordan, are/ were great writers who began a project that was bigger than they thought. If his publisher hasn't tried this already, I would find a young writter to help Martin complete his series. At his current rate, I don't think anyone is actually expecting Martin being able to finish.
Quote:
fixed that for you. |
Originally Posted by Inazuma
Peter Dinklage makes everything awesome.
|
Statesmonkey Sez: Lighten up! It's a game, for Lincoln's sake!
Also: Six years of casual play begins to look an awful lot like one year of hardcore play.
Hell, just get Dragon Naturally Speaking like David Weber. The guy's words per minute jumped up to something on the order of 130 and he's churning out 3 massive tomes a year. A couple of them are even pretty good.
The Alt Alphabet ~ OPC: Other People's Characters ~ Terrific Screenshots of Cool ~ Superhero Fiction