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Re: Game of Thrones book discussion thread
« Reply #600 on: August 22, 2017, 11:04:08 AM »
Why do any of you trust him to follow through, he is doing what any of us at our most lazy and self-satisfied would do if we were presented with near absolute praise for our own rough ridin' fantasy being accepted as a brilliant work of fiction.

i don't understand your question. why does anyone "trust" him to follow through? i'm not his publisher. i just want to read the conclusion of a great series, and bitching about how long it's taking to finish it is the only thing i can do about it

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« Reply #601 on: August 22, 2017, 11:10:32 AM »
this (and i'm not joking) is what he IRL writes on




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Re: Game of Thrones book discussion thread
« Reply #602 on: August 22, 2017, 11:11:28 AM »
With a macro for "boiled leather"
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« Reply #603 on: August 22, 2017, 11:12:15 AM »
this (and i'm not joking) is what he IRL writes on




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I actually like it. It does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn't do anything else. I don't want any help, you know? I hate some of these modern systems where you type a lowercase letter and it becomes a capital. I don't want a capital. If I wanted a capital I would have typed a capital. I know how to work the shift key!


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« Reply #604 on: August 22, 2017, 11:13:12 AM »
"moon boy"

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« Reply #605 on: August 22, 2017, 11:13:46 AM »
like did his agent never think to tell him how to turn off autocorrect in Word or something? :lol:

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Re: Game of Thrones book discussion thread
« Reply #606 on: August 22, 2017, 11:15:15 AM »
He probably prints off all 2000 pages of each one of his books and then his editors have to edit them by hand.

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« Reply #607 on: August 22, 2017, 11:15:58 AM »
listen, we all know it would be an adorable quirk if we were balls deep in A Dream of Spring right now  :frown:

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« Reply #608 on: August 22, 2017, 11:17:00 AM »
listen, we all know it would be an adorable quirk if we were balls deep in A Dream of Spring right now  :frown:

Maybe in 2018. A boy can dream...

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« Reply #609 on: August 22, 2017, 11:17:42 AM »
A Dream of Spring is an apt title because that's all it is, a dream

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« Reply #610 on: August 22, 2017, 11:18:47 AM »
listen, we all know it would be an adorable quirk if we were balls deep in A Dream of Spring right now  :frown:

Maybe in 2018. A boy can dream...

actually he meant maybe in 2018 he would be done with Winds of Winter. a dream of spring will for sure be written by someone else

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Re: Game of Thrones book discussion thread
« Reply #611 on: August 22, 2017, 11:19:12 AM »
This was supposed to be a 3 book series  :lol:
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Re: Game of Thrones book discussion thread
« Reply #612 on: August 22, 2017, 11:19:37 AM »
get a load of this sloth ass motherf'er

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And, yes, I know you all want to know about THE WINDS OF WINTER too. I've seen some truly weird reports about WOW on the internet of late, by 'journalists' who make their stories up out of whole cloth. I don't know which story is more absurd, the one that says the book is finished and I've been sitting on it for some nefarious reason, or the one that says I have no pages. Both 'reports' are equally false and equally moronic. I am still working on it, I am still months away (how many? good question), I still have good days and bad days, and that's all I care to say. Whether WINDS or the first volume of FIRE AND BLOOD will be the first to hit the bookstores is hard to say at this juncture, but I do think you will have a Westeros book from me in 2018... and who knows, maybe two. A boy can dream...

He is just such a dip crap.

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« Reply #613 on: August 22, 2017, 11:20:36 AM »
get a load of this sloth ass motherf'er

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And, yes, I know you all want to know about THE WINDS OF WINTER too. I've seen some truly weird reports about WOW on the internet of late, by 'journalists' who make their stories up out of whole cloth. I don't know which story is more absurd, the one that says the book is finished and I've been sitting on it for some nefarious reason, or the one that says I have no pages. Both 'reports' are equally false and equally moronic. I am still working on it, I am still months away (how many? good question), I still have good days and bad days, and that's all I care to say. Whether WINDS or the first volume of FIRE AND BLOOD will be the first to hit the bookstores is hard to say at this juncture, but I do think you will have a Westeros book from me in 2018... and who knows, maybe two. A boy can dream...


yeah he's talking about Winds of Winter and the Fire and Blood book

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« Reply #614 on: August 22, 2017, 11:21:36 AM »
as in one or both will be finished next year

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Re: Game of Thrones book discussion thread
« Reply #615 on: August 22, 2017, 11:24:55 AM »
He wrote the last one in 2011 and thinks he can knock out 2 in like 14 months :lol:

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Re: Game of Thrones book discussion thread
« Reply #616 on: August 22, 2017, 11:25:54 AM »
He needs to just sub-contract this out already.

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Re: Game of Thrones book discussion thread
« Reply #617 on: August 22, 2017, 11:26:24 AM »
He wrote the last one in 2011 and thinks he can knock out 2 in like 14 months :lol:

And then he can't figure out why "journalists" think he might be sitting on finished books.

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Re: Game of Thrones book discussion thread
« Reply #618 on: August 22, 2017, 11:35:42 AM »
That's a powerful looking machine.

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Re: Game of Thrones book discussion thread
« Reply #619 on: August 22, 2017, 03:07:25 PM »
I'd rather wait for the GRRM books than have them be ghost written or written posthumously by someone else. The final three books of Wheel of Time read like fan fiction. But they were also improvements over the last few written by Robert Jordan. Martin is incredibly slow but all five have been very good so far. Haven't seen any drop off except for maybe a little in Book 5.
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Re: Game of Thrones book discussion thread
« Reply #620 on: August 22, 2017, 03:30:15 PM »
He's waiting to see the reax from the show to figure out how to finish the books.

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Re: Game of Thrones book discussion thread
« Reply #621 on: August 22, 2017, 03:36:27 PM »
Yeah, it's just like how KU waited to see our stadium renovations before they made theirs.

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Game of Thrones book discussion thread
« Reply #622 on: August 22, 2017, 06:43:35 PM »
GRRM is a lazy bastard.

BUT, his fiction is not "less than" because it's fantasy, or suddenly popular.  All fiction is a "fantasy" of the writer.

Additionally, GRRM is hardly the first writer to stubbornly insist on an antiquated writing instrument.  Nor the first to be moody and lazy.

Personally, I both hate his sloth and love his works so far.  I read every book (that had been released) before the HBO series and I told people then that it was my favorite fiction I had ever read.  For me, it still is.

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Re: Game of Thrones book discussion thread
« Reply #623 on: August 22, 2017, 07:33:36 PM »
You'd have to be at least half crazy to write this stuff.
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