New Game of Thrones book release book 5
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Posted on: 2011-07-12 07:54 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Eh. I haven't been able to motivate myself to get book 4. Found the series thoroughly depressing by the end of book 3, TBH.
Probably get back to it in a year or so.
I'll wait until it's completely out. I would rather read straight through versus having to go back and try to remember what happened since the last book came out.
I'm currently re-reading book 4. I thought I'd have all the books read once Dance started, but forgot exactly how much there is to digest! But, book 5 was delivered to my Kindle last night in preparation!
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Just walked in the door with it. About to start reading!
Edit- no I did not walk into the door
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Pre-ordered it... but it ain't here yet. 
Got it at 3AM this morning on Kindle, only a few chapters in, but it feels good to be home. 
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I am disappointed that http://isadancewithdragonsoutyet.com/ hasn't updated.
There was a release party last night that I completely forgot about, but I'll have to pick up the book.
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I barely finished book 1 because of this. Life tends to be depressing enough w/o dedicating my leisure time to the same.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Eh. I haven't been able to motivate myself to get book 4. Found the series thoroughly depressing by the end of book 3, TBH.
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What a shame you didn't stick with it. Book 2 is all rainbows and unicorns and in Book 3 everyone gets a puppy! Your loss I guess.
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Originally Posted by Zyphoid
I barely finished book 1 because of this. Life tends to be depressing enough w/o dedicating my leisure time to the same.
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Originally Posted by MentalMaden
What a shame you didn't stick with it. Book 2 is all rainbows and unicorns and in Book 3 everyone gets a puppy! Your loss I guess.
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I have to admit I also prefer High Fantasy, and not this form of low fantasy.
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He he. I normally prefer Tolkienesque stuff myself, but for some reason this series had me captured early. He has gotten a little long and wandered into too much stuff that is irrelevant (or is unnecessarily repeating relevant themes), but that seems to be the style of our times with fantasy novels. I do like that he is trying to bring it to a close, it shows that he knows he wandered a bit more than needed (or than he intended).
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Originally Posted by Zyphoid
Not even tempting, the rest of my friends read them.
I have to admit I also prefer High Fantasy, and not this form of low fantasy. |
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Got mine today. I'll probably give up some game time to read tonight.
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Got my notification email that it had shipped, now the wait for it to arrive. Unfortunately I finished Book 4 about two months ago. Dang I read too fast sometimes.
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Ur mean.
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Originally Posted by MentalMaden
What a shame you didn't stick with it. Book 2 is all rainbows and unicorns and in Book 3 everyone gets a puppy! Your loss I guess.
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Well good thing I didn't mention the soda pop fountain donated to the orphanage in Book 4 then.
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Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
Ur mean.
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Costco had piles of them laying around for $20 a pop yesterday.
I walked on past, and it wasn't that hard.
The author's cavalier attitude towards meeting deadlines has turned me off. I can give my money to other, just as competent, authors, who know episodic fiction has to occur on a regular basis.
Or who care.
Funny how fast he managed to finish this once HBO started breathing down his neck, wasn't it?
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I am only going to point out that his reasons for doing this was that "A Feast For Crows" was HUGE and the publisher screamed about it and said cut it in two. Unlike "A Storm of Swords" which had a nice break point in the middle (this from GRRM at AussieCon4), "A Feast For Crows" didn't and the more he tried to rewrite it the more drawn out the process became. Yes we have had to wait a long time and I have been incredibly worried it would never finish. In the publishing world these things happen.|
Originally Posted by Casual_Player
Costco had piles of them laying around for $20 a pop yesterday.
I walked on past, and it wasn't that hard. The author's cavalier attitude towards meeting deadlines has turned me off. I can give my money to other, just as competent, authors, who know episodic fiction has to occur on a regular basis. Or who care. Funny how fast he managed to finish this once HBO started breathing down his neck, wasn't it? |
I will close with a quote from Neil Gaiman "GRRM is not your b****h!" and my own feelings on the matter I will wait for a work that is good rather than one that is just thrown together to make deadline(read through a couple of those, turned me off that particular author permanently).
BTW at AussieCon4 when we got the sneak peak about the HBO Series they had 1 season= 1 book set up so they would have 3 YEARS before they would even have to start worrying about "A Dance With Dragons".
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If we still could I'd +rep you for that post.
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Originally Posted by KuriositysKat
I will close with a quote from Neil Gaiman "GRRM is not your b****h!" and my own feelings on the matter I will wait for a work that is good rather than one that is just thrown together to make deadline(read through a couple of those, turned me off that particular author permanently). |
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... I read that as "A feast for cows." Not quite the same impact with that imagery.
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Originally Posted by KuriositysKat
I am only going to point out that his reasons for doing this was that "A Feast For Crows"
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But nonetheless quite mooving.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
... I read that as "A feast for cows." Not quite the same impact with that imagery.
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This whole conversation is utterly silly.
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Originally Posted by MentalMaden
This whole conversation is udderly silly.
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Originally Posted by MentalMaden
This whole conversation is utterly silly.
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