Well, one reason he hasn't written the next book is because he spent a good part of last year campaigning for the witch.
You can get a “Get a life”. That’s the most I can muster over fiction when there is so much more in life to enjoy.
Who? What?
Does anyone actually care?
Given his current age, weight, and writing pace, the likely resolution of this series is another Robert Jordan...
I have seen that happen ... the author is drawing a blank on ideas, so he just bangs out a dull and formulaic story. It can destroy a series. Better to have no book, that to have a really bad one.
RR Martin’s never going to finish the book.
There are plenty of better books out there. Why wpould you want to read a book by someone from New Jersey?
Well, one reason he hasn't written the next book is because he spent a good part of last year campaigning for the witch.
The funny thing is that in letting the TV series surpass his books, Martin has lost audience for his books by making them somewhat irrelevant. Instead of getting a reaction of, “the tv show really is a departure from the books” the opposite will be true. When the cliff notes are available, especially in video format, the cliff notes win.
How about an, ahem...
His story goes nowhere and if it weren’t for the HBO series, which is cinematically terrific, would be just inane.
I read them because I wanted to see where the series would go but it was pablum.
I tried watching the TV adaptation of Gaiman’s book American Gods. Unbelievably uninteresting, getting a filling would be more entertaining how anyone can argue that this guy is a SciFi or fantasy genius is beyond me! No interest in reading his books, walking past his books, standing next to his books or being in the same city as his books, though I don’t know how I would “police” that.
He’s incredibly successful.
The “Winds of Winter”...less chili, more Bean-O.
At this rate, he will be dead before it’s finished. Talk about working at a snails pace. Thank goodness for HBO, at least we’ll have a broad overview of what happens.
re:” Still, writing books isn’t digging ditches. The creative spark cannot be harnessed and utilised like electricity, always available at the flick of a switch.”
As a writer, I agree with this premise. In books vs. short stories and novellas, you enter the writing tunnel, with a possible light at the end of the tunnel. You DON’T HAVE the vast amount of space for ‘a book’ or ‘one book of many in a series’.
‘Series books’ can be either character-driven, like James Bond, or event-driven as were Kim Harrison’s ‘The Hollows’ books. G.R.R. Martin has married chronological, character, and event driven themes into a long batch of third sub-basement plots, while some characters are ‘above ground’ living out their lives.
I think he has created his own nightmare, but as writers have ‘little darlings’ to kill off, just how many ‘darlings’ has this man got?!?!?
Remember, the writing Muse does NOT work by the clock. Have you ever awakened, at some odd hour, with some idea of ‘that thing’ you are working on, and your acting on ‘it’, solves your problem?
Multiply that by the number of characters, plots, and events that could turn up in, say a paperback book, and you wonder why they call writers ‘eccentric’??
I think you have a rage of thrones.
Can't type. Too many distractions.
I was able to read the first 5 books in relatively short order as they were all available when I got interested in the series. After all these years waiting for the next volume I have to admit that many details of the story have gotten lost in the fog of my memory. I have no intention of reading all 5 books over again as a refresher course for #6. Chances are that even if he were to finish the series, I would not read them.
Well, just got the first book of the series from the used bookstore, even though I finished Season 5 just recently. Hoping the books is as good as the series.
