Game of Thrones book discussion thread

[Rage Against the McKee]

I read a thing online a week or so ago about when the next book comes out.  There is obvsly still no official date, but some nerd took the time to look at GRRM's blog, correlate his daily mood postings, and compare that to the last three or so books timeline for ramp up, release, etc and he argues that everything is pointing to a release very soon.  He then went on to calc out the words per day production of the last several books and chart that.  He has a chart that shows the book coming out as early as late summer this year, to fall 2017. 

In summary, it is pretty crazy the amt of time some nerds have on their hands.

So the book will come out anywhere from 4 months to 2 and a half years from now? I could have told you that without any analysis.

[Mr Bread]

There's too much else out there.  I don't care anymore.  I'm not merely flaccid on it, it fell off. 

[Pete]

There's too much else out there.  I don't care anymore.  I'm not merely flaccid on it, it fell off.

PREDICTION:  You will get your balls jiggled just like the rest of us, and be right back in here.

[Rage Against the McKee]

There's too much else out there.  I don't care anymore.  I'm not merely flaccid on it, it fell off.

PREDICTION:  You will get your balls jiggled just like the rest of us, and be right back in here.

Yep. Lady Stonedick.

[Mr Bread]

There's too much else out there.  I don't care anymore.  I'm not merely flaccid on it, it fell off.

PREDICTION:  You will get your balls jiggled just like the rest of us, and be right back in here.

I've never cared less about anything in my entire life. 

[Pete]

There's too much else out there.  I don't care anymore.  I'm not merely flaccid on it, it fell off.

PREDICTION:  You will get your balls jiggled just like the rest of us, and be right back in here.

I've never cared less about anything in my entire life.

Well, lay some good ones on me, my man (or bump the book thread).  You have given me some great ones in the past, and I am asking for more.  I want to be entertained, and you seem to get that, and don't recommend the boring egg head crap that Michigan and Kat Kid push (yuck).

[Mr Bread]

There's too much else out there.  I don't care anymore.  I'm not merely flaccid on it, it fell off.

PREDICTION:  You will get your balls jiggled just like the rest of us, and be right back in here.

I've never cared less about anything in my entire life.

Well, lay some good ones on me, my man (or bump the book thread).  You have given me some great ones in the past, and I am asking for more.  I want to be entertained, and you seem to get that, and don't recommend the boring egg head crap that Michigan and Kat Kid push (yuck).

A Land Fit For Heroes trilogy was entertaining. 

http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=3492.msg1326710#msg1326710

Barely any gay sex in the second two books if it matters. 

[HerrSonntag]

I finished the Princess and the Queen and it was very good. I couldn't figure out how to join that Wiki page thing.


I also saw a book at the library called Hunter's Run by GRRM (and a couple other people) so I picked it up and it was good too. (Very different from ASoIaF though.)

Listening to the audio book of the princess and the queen on my flight.  Jorah Mormont aka Iain Glenn does the reading. I mean wow, you guys.

[Mrs. Gooch]

http://www.georgerrmartin.com/excerpt-from-the-winds-of-winter/

[HerrSonntag]

I wish hed'd quite doing excerpts and release the goddamn book! I mean, i consume my GRRM via Roy Dotrice readings: do you know how old that [redacted] is?  Everyone's worried about George keeling over from a ham sandwich before the series is done but Roy is about to be ninty-rough ridin'-six years old!!!! His days are limited!

[HerrSonntag]

Related note: that post checking his age made me realize the guy who does the audiobooks for ASOIAF was the pyromancer in the TV show. That's great!

[Cire]

Has Jon connington been in the show?


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[CNS]

No.  It has to come up pretty quickly, though.  Either that, or that spur is a failed hope and the third dragon pilot will be Tyrion or someone else and the show is going to ignore it for time reasons.

[Mrs. Gooch]

I wish hed'd quite doing excerpts and release the goddamn book! I mean, i consume my GRRM via Roy Dotrice readings: do you know how old that [redacted] is?  Everyone's worried about George keeling over from a ham sandwich before the series is done but Roy is about to be ninty-rough ridin'-six years old!!!! His days are limited!

Here you go....
https://aboveaverage.com/george-r-r-martin-im-pulling-a-wonka-and-hiring-a-nerd-to-finish-game-of-thrones/
 

[mocat]

Has Jon connington been in the show?


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jon connington has not been in the show.

do you think the show will try to squeeze in arianne, quentyn, young griff, etc? i hope not

[CNS]

I don't think they have time.  Not only that, but the Dorne stuff has jumped forward super fast already.  I think it is already past most of it.

[Rage Against the McKee]

At this point, I don't even get why George is even trying to finish Winds of Winter. It's not like he has any chance at all of ever getting the 7th book finished. He should hire somebody else to write it for him and then he can edit it so he can see his series finished before he dies.

[mocat]

GRRM released a WoW excerpt in 2011. that's five years ago 

[Asteriskhead]

GRRM released a WoW excerpt in 2011. that's five years ago 

"I waited six rough ridin' years for A Dance With Dragons, and now you jump on the rough ridin' band wagon?"

[Rage Against the McKee]

GRRM released a WoW excerpt in 2011. that's five years ago 

Thinking about dusting off the series for some Summer/Fall reading. How slow will I have to read for the release of Winds of Winter?

I think it will be out by around this time next year. A Dream of Spring probably won't come out until after George is already dead.

[michigancat]

At this point, I don't even get why George is even trying to finish Winds of Winter. It's not like he has any chance at all of ever getting the 7th book finished. He should hire somebody else to write it for him and then he can edit it so he can see his series finished before he dies.

Hiring a second writer or group of writers is honestly a really good idea. He's too old/stupid/stubborn to make it work, but it would be very doable - people could easily mimic his style. He could oversee the plot and let people write details in his style.

[mocat]

get a load of this sloth ass motherf'er

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...

[Mrs. Gooch]

WTF is he working on Fire and Blood instead of concentrating on the story line?

[michigancat]

lol grmm can get mumped

[Kat Kid]

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.


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