George RR Martin is a person, not your writing slave. Writers are people. They have lives. All evidence points to the assumption that creating an entire world and then creating characters to put into that world and torture endlessly is hard work, and having, let's say a million, a million people endlessly badger them to get back to work and not
I won't say Im an avid fan, but I genuinely interested in this series. At the end of Season 1 and want to read the books, but the glaring question is if George R R Martin will finish the books. He's an old man. He's 72 and if his books take years to finish I wonder if the man himself will be able to finish before he's 80.
IMO George RR Martin is about as overrated as JK Rowling. The writing isn't that good. Compared to most good modern authors the writing, pacing, and character building is god awful. I honestly never stood the appeal. I read the first 2 books, and they read like they were written by an edgy teen.
Depends on how you look at it. Asoiaf basically boils down to humanity's conflict between its two great existential threats - Fire (Dragons / Nuclear weapons) and Ice (The Others / Climate change). Which can be reduced even further to a story of the two great conflicts of man - Man vs Self (Fire) and Man vs Nature (Ice).
Way back before the AFFC/ADWD split book disaster, the count was one lower than currently planned. But because he couldn't be bothered to kill off any of his shitty villains, we're stuck waiting pretty much an entire decade longer for a finish.
Sure, the ASOIAF subreddit like to speculate beyond comprehension based on previous comments and writing speed and a million other variables, but he hasn't said anything regarding the release date of his next ASOIAF book. There are always going to be fans that dislike/resent GRRM, but I would never say that he is resented by the fanbase.
George RR Martin averages 1364.5 days between release of his books. That will project a release date for his final book on January 5, 2019. He will be 70.3 years of age at that time. The average life expectancy of a male in the US is 75.6. So, we should be safe, but its cutting it close.
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George R.R. Martin says he's "sorry for" people who only care about The Winds Of Winter. They have to be done together and released separately so he doesn’t have to deal with backlash. He can release Winter and basically walk away from the series, allowing the publisher to delay the finale for a year or two. There's a series of books by Maurice Druon that take place during the War of the Roses - GRRM talks a little about the series's influence on GoT in the introduction of the first one. Pretty cool if you want to dig deeper into the War of the Roses influences. The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman. George R.R. Martin new blog post. He still thinks that he is going to finish The Winds of Winter, A Dream of Spring, Fire & Blood 2 and some novellas before the new show catch up. I'm Matt Ruff, author of LOVECRAFT COUNTRY and THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS: A RETURN TO LOVECRAFT COUNTRY.
The stormlight archive is great - I mean I absolute love the way of kings and words of radiance, and god bless sanderson because he pumps out like 3 books a year (compared to some people we know ehem ehem), but I just don't think characters like Kaladin, Shallan, and Dalinar have the true complexity and inner turmoil as shone through the eyes of people like Tyrion, Jon Snow, and Brienne.
Martin said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in December 2022 he had "like 1,100, 1,200 pages" done, with 400 or 500 to go before The Winds of Winter was complete. Almost a year on, the author seemingly still has the same amount of work to be done. Emphasis mine, so I'm assuming the latter An episode of the Comedy Central series Stephen Colbert’s Tooning Out The News has the latest from Martin, who says — sounding fairly sincere about it — that he’s written around 1,100 to 1,200 pages of the book so far, and just has “another 400, 500 pages” to go. George R.R. Martin sucks. He’s created a very interesting series that has captured peoples attention and imaginations and is completely shitting on people’s expectations. There is no reason he should be working on Fire and Blood, Dunk & Egg, Nightflyers, or anything else until he finishes his original series that was started 23 YEARS AGO. I recommend Dreamsongs: Volume I, a best-of collection of Martin's early works. In addition to "The Ice Dragon," which is a great 'near-ASOIAF' novella, the "Hybrids and Horrors" section has a bunch of worthwhile material: "Nightflyers" and "Sandkings" are both phenomenal scifi-horror novellas; "Remembering Melody" and "The Monkey Treatment ASOIAF is just written in modern parlance, and portrays a victorian (early modern) society, which is not that different from our own. This is wrong on two accounts. First, Victorian society is not "early modern". The early modern period is delineated by historians as beginning at the end of the 16th century, and ending at the end of the 18th
How wrapped up are they in the story that they cannot see the humanity of the author behind it all. GRRM is a human being, he has a family, friends, people who love him, people he loves. He has hobbies, and passions, and is choosing to share a magnificent talent with us. He is talented clearly and seems genuine, funny and kind.
He is completely delusional or extremely rude or even both. In time since he finished the last book we had the entire GoT show that lasted almost a decade, one failed pilot for spinoff show Bloodmoon, one season of House of the Dragon, while S2 is now in production and new GoT show - A Knight of the 7 Kingdoms being officially ordered.
Bit of an odd question, but I've been hoping to put together a somewhat uniform collection of Martin's pre-ASOIAF books and so far I've found Tuf Voyaging and Windhaven, and just purchased copies of The Armageddon Rag and Dreamsongs Vol 1 all in the livery that basically seems to be in the same style as the Ice and Fire series. 8BxLOk.
