I'm not sure the problem is one of distraction though.
read his blog - all he does is go to nerd conventions where he most likely eats (and possibly scores with SCA girls).
i read these for the first time last February or so, and after finishing the last one checked around for the next one and it said November '08. i was excited! foolish me. my friends laughed knowingly at my enthusiasm.
― shortwave (rockapads), Saturday, 6 December 2008 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link
just finished feast for crows.
goddamn man! you can't leave me hanging like this!!!
definitely the least satisfying of the books, seems like a lot of interesting side info but no real meat.
― ie: BANGING (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Every time this thread gets revived I get excited and think "okay finally".
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
One day it'll be revived like the Robert Jordan thread with an 'uh-oh.'
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
haha sorry dude!
hey i went to his site and there is a jon chapter from dance up, but i was informed there was also a tyrion sample chapter up at one point that he took down...in addition to the dany chapter included in feast at the end...anyone know if there's a site that has that up?
xPOST
HUSH YO MOUTH NED! i am sending him fish oil capsules and weight watcher coupons!
― ie: BANGING (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
'George R.R. Martin' is a name with a little chuckle in the middle.
― moley, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 10:18 (fifteen years ago) link
someone saw the script for the HBO pilot of game of thrones!!
http://winter-is-coming.blogspot.com/2008/12/winter-is-comings-exclusive-pilot.html
― ie: BANGING (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
The script is kind of the last thing I'm wondering about this production, I'll be honest.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow Tom McCarthy of the Visitor fame to direct the pilot and Peter Dinklage as Tyrion.
No news on the book front sadly.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 8 May 2009 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Fucking George "it's almost done" R. R. Martin.
― ian, Saturday, 9 May 2009 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
he is not "your bitch"
http://scifisongs.blogspot.com/2009/08/sci-fi-song-20-george-rr-martin-is-not.html
― dude, it's america, it happens all the time (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually he is. Assuming he wants anyone to buy his books that is.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah seriously i fucking hate that he publishes all those stupid "wildcats" books and shit, who gives a fuck about that?
― dude, it's america, it happens all the time (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean I get that he's stressed out and it's tough being a Jets fan and eating all that Dunkin Donuts and McDonalds, but seriously I don't give a shit. Stop dicking around on your grrnal and write the book I want to read before I forget that I care about this stupid series at all!
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm gonna had to reread them all again before i read the next one anyway...i remember them, but it's one of those series where some seemingly minor character that you met like for five minutes ends up being a major thing, like how the lightning lord was at ned's tourament in the first book, stuff like that
― dude, it's america, it happens all the time (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
pimpin' all over the world
http://pics.livejournal.com/grrm/pic/0007stfc
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
He's playing the lead in the roadshow of Fela!?
― alter cocker jarvis cocker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
looool
I admit that were I in a situation where that picture could be taken, I would also be like "fuck finishing this series for a while"
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
why are people on westeros always eating olives? that makes no sense at all
― thomp, Sunday, 27 December 2009 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
because they're having a feast for bros
― reagan & sarah (s1ocki), Monday, 28 December 2009 01:57 (fourteen years ago) link
can't really imagine it in henry VI, can you? 'dear duke of gloucester, what do you think we should do about all this lancaster-york business? also, have an olive'
― thomp, Monday, 28 December 2009 09:45 (fourteen years ago) link
'also pass the chip'n'dip'
― thomp, Monday, 28 December 2009 09:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i know, if it weren't for that it would totally be shakespeare
― who sharted?! (s1ocki), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I actually wish I hadn't read the fourth book now (not that it's bad, but it's decidedly unfinished which makes the gap even more frustrating). Also still suspect dude is going to die before anything else makes it into print leaving one of his sons to finish up the series.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
george r. r. r. martin
― who sharted?! (s1ocki), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
george arrrrrrrgh arr martin
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
george r. i. p. martin.
― nickn, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
FIRST PICTURE OF HBO SERIES AND FULL CAST LIST!!!!
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/game-of-thrones/
― om nom nom nom de plume (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
sike
― aarrissi-a-roni, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
YOOOOOOOODANCE OF DRAGONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://shelf-life.ew.com/2011/03/03/dance-with-dragons-date/
HEEEELLLL YEAAAAAAAAAAAH
― gr8080 sings the blues (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Best news I've heard all week!
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
No way!
― every man and woman is a sitar (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
WHAT
― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
omg
― rockapads, Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
laura miller's (subscription-only) 'new yorker' article was awesome
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/11/110411fa_fact_miller
and this salon thing
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/game_of_thrones/index.html?story=/ent/tv/feature/2011/04/09/game_of_thrones_primer
makes the whole hbo series sound promising
maybe 'a dance of dragons' or whatever really will come out this summer
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 11 April 2011 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i understand it's now swelled to seven as feast for crows is only really half a book. whilst it centres on kings landing, events happening simultaneously elsewhere are left for the next one. which hopefully will not take another 5 years.
― mason_storm, Monday, October 31, 2005 7:13 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, 11 April 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
haha argh
― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Monday, 11 April 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i just started feast of crows. little bit of a letdown after the nuts-exploding awesomeness of storm of swords, but i'm sure i'll get into it.
the new yorker article is good. the follow-up interview with laura miller is interesting too, where she talks about the differences between audiences of fantasy & lit fic. she's probably right when she says that a lot of contemporary lit fic writers don't have the skillset for this kind of serial storytelling
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2011/04/11/110411on_audio_miller
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, 11 April 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
*feast for crows
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, 11 April 2011 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
"little bit of a letdown after the nuts-exploding awesomeness of storm of swords"
It's still a little bit of a let down for me all of these years later.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 11 April 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Not stopping me from being super excited for the new one though.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 11 April 2011 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
The let down is mostly just that a lot of the interesting threads/characters are even addressed in Feast. I didn't really have a problem with anything in the book itself.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 11 April 2011 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
NYer article was depressing for me. What the fuck is wrong with Fan ppl. Are they still human? As I wrote on the NYer thread already:
"It's rly rly weird psychologically and the GRRM profile is far from the first time I have noticed it; basically, Fans with a capital F have this weird seething RAGE toward the creators of the narratives they want. Like this impotent rage. The creator(s) don't even have to be late on delivery of new work like GRRM has been, the Fans just are constantly teetering between deification and dehumanization of those who CONTROL "their" characters. There DOES need to be a new book abt [this neurosis] because the internet has exacerbated it severely"
― last name ever, first name gjetost (Jon Lewis), Monday, 11 April 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's exactly it - the storylines I'm most interested in seeing explored aren't even in the book. I kinda knew that ahead of time though.
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, 11 April 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I am pretty angry at GRRM for not getting around to finish this series. I still suspect he's going to die before concluding it.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 11 April 2011 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm sympathetic towards the author in this case but I can understand fan disgruntlement if I imagine myself following his blog posts for 6 years waiting for this supposedly nearly-finished half novel to come out - all these little things about selling water-damaged calendars and making the convention circuit and writing about the nfl draft must seem like borderline insults to some people
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, 11 April 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
There's probably an element of "*I* have to go to work every day, why isn't *he* accountable for his productivity?" in there somewhere.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Monday, 11 April 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I do like that George R R Martin basically raged about L O S T in that New Yorker thing.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 11 April 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Also maybe that he "got famous" on the wave of fans he has hooked with his great story, and now that he gets to travel and be interviewed and be propped up by models at sci-fi conventions and have TV shows made about his work, he's betraying the readers who made him by delaying.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Monday, 11 April 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not thrilled about the wait myself.