Anticipating "A Feast For Crows" by George R. R. Martin (Nov. 9)

One day it'll be revived like the Robert Jordan thread with an 'uh-oh.'

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?

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HUSH YO MOUTH NED! i am sending him fish oil capsules and weight watcher coupons!

'George R.R. Martin' is a name with a little chuckle in the middle.

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

The script is kind of the last thing I'm wondering about this production, I'll be honest.

Wow Tom McCarthy of the Visitor fame to direct the pilot and Peter Dinklage as Tyrion.

No news on the book front sadly.

Fucking George "it's almost done" R. R. Martin.

he is not "your bitch"

http://scifisongs.blogspot.com/2009/08/sci-fi-song-20-george-rr-martin-is-not.html

Actually he is. Assuming he wants anyone to buy his books that is.

yeah seriously i fucking hate that he publishes all those stupid "wildcats" books and shit, who gives a fuck about that?

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!

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

pimpin' all over the world

http://pics.livejournal.com/grrm/pic/0007stfc

He's playing the lead in the roadshow of Fela!?

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"

why are people on westeros always eating olives? that makes no sense at all

because they're having a feast for bros

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'

'also pass the chip'n'dip'

i know, if it weren't for that it would totally be shakespeare

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.

george r. r. r. martin

george arrrrrrrgh arr martin

george r. i. p. martin.

FIRST PICTURE OF HBO SERIES AND FULL CAST LIST!!!!

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/game-of-thrones/

sike

YOOOOOOOO
DANCE OF DRAGONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://shelf-life.ew.com/2011/03/03/dance-with-dragons-date/

HEEEELLLL YEAAAAAAAAAAAH

Best news I've heard all week!

No way!

WHAT

omg

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

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

haha argh

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

*feast for crows

"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.

Not stopping me from being super excited for the new one though.

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.

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"

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.

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.

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

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.

I do like that George R R Martin basically raged about L O S T in that New Yorker thing.

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.

I'm not thrilled about the wait myself.

xxxpost Yeah and Cuse fired back at him on Twitter. Sorry cowboy, you are gonna be an object lesson for decades to come, now stfu.

Yeah but have you guys actually read the article and the level of venom involved? I've been waiting with bated breath for this fucking thing just like everybody else but this is like mentally ill behavior...

"Yeah but have you guys actually read the article and the level of venom involved?"

No I haven't, but have there been actual attacks on him? Or is these just message board threats?