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Posted by2 years ago
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George R.R. Martin bringing Roger Zelazny fantasy novel to HBO. He's never finishing The Winds of Winter is he?

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· 2 yr. ago
GoldThisHelpful3Wholesome4

Just a friendly reminder that in the time it has taken for GRRM to publish two novels, Robert Jordan published two novels, died, and then published three more.

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· 2 yr. ago

That comment made me pull my braid especially firmly.

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· 2 yr. ago

This is the best comment in the entire thread.

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· 2 yr. ago

In the time George R. R. Martin hasn’t published a book I’ve gotten an MSc, a PhD, had two children, gotten a full time job, moved to Canada, and will be moving to New Zealand.

I long used the metric of “If I can finish my PhD before Winds of Winter, I win!” Lol.

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· 2 yr. ago

But hey, Brandon Sanderson actually did such an incredible job with the last three novels, got to give credit where credit is due as well.

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· 2 yr. ago

Upvoted. Saved. Screenshotted. Shared.

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· 2 yr. ago

Dude, basically the entire Expanse series came out since Dance With Dragons. One a year like clockwork. Two years for the last one in a pandemic. Both GRRM snail’s pace, and Franck and Abrahams’ productivity are fucking impressive... but for very different reasons.

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· 2 yr. ago

Hasn’t Tolkien released more books than Martin in the last decade?

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· 2 yr. ago

So, he has to die first then?

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· 2 yr. ago
Wholesome2Silver2Hugz2

I remember when I was working at Verizon about 10 years or so ago. And I was reading the first book in the series. And a guy walked past me and said, you are gonna hate yourself for starting that.

I asked him why, and he said because its not finished, and we have no idea when he will finish it. That was almost 11 years ago.

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· 2 yr. ago
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That guy? George R.R. Martin

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· 2 yr. ago

lmao reminds me of when someone several years ago ON THIS SUB no less told me to read the Name of the Wind... a few months later I realized too late that it was a cruel jpke

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· 2 yr. ago

I work in libraries and one day this older lady came up to my counter all excited because she needed to order the next book in this series she was reading, and she couldn't wait to get started. She needed Winds of Winter. Needless to say she left very disappointed.

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· 2 yr. ago

I now have a rule when it comes to reading books that are a series.

Either the series is complete or the author is dead and the series will never be finished, then and only then will I consider reading a series.

Because people always ask about the "dead" thing, I'll explain. If there's a series I'm interested however it's not done, I won't read it. If the author dies and the series is being left as it stands, I'll make the decision to read it or not knowing it won't be finished. So in the case of this guy, if I knew then what I knew now I'd have waited for GGM to croak and then read the first three books and be done.

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· 2 yr. ago

My friends have been fans since 2008 and were always trying to get me into it. I picked it up in 2015 and remember laughing to myself that they'd been waiting half a decade for the new book, while I'd only have to wait like a year, tops! I paid for that.

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· 2 yr. ago

Laughs in Berserk

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