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[jay]

Has anyone posted this interview he did?

http://www.clickhole.com/article/ending-jon-snow-invents-pizza-5-questions-george-r-6221#2

 

[Phased]

He's too busy enjoying his TV show money, and book sale money from the popularity of the TV show.

I can't fault the guy for that. Once you accept that this series is going to likely be finished by someone else in the future it's all fine.

 

[HStallion]

Has anyone posted this interview he did?

http://www.clickhole.com/article/ending-jon-snow-invents-pizza-5-questions-george-r-6221#2

I'm glad GRRM has a sense of humor about it all, he'd probably have gone mad if he didn't. Also I want to see Jon Snow invent pizza.

 

[Basileus777]

Imagine when (if?) Winds is completed/released and Martin goes on an admittedly well deserved book tour. But then the tour lasts too long, and he comes home and is behind on the 5-6 projects he's working on. Meanwhile he's accepting other projects, other speaking engagements, etc. All of a sudden nearly two years have passed since Winds' release and he has barely written anything. Meanwhile the show has ended, and his story has effectively been spoiled. Thrones Mania is declining but he's trying to revive it by being involved in the spin off production. Another year passes. And the more Martin measures his progress as well as the plot, the more he realizes an 8th book would make things easier.

Good luck.

You're not exactly going out on a limb here, especially with the inevitable 8th book.

 

[Phoenix RISING]

He's too busy enjoying his TV show money, and book sale money from the popularity of the TV show.

I can't fault the guy for that. Once you accept that this series is going to likely be finished by someone else in the future it's all fine.

No.

I've never been a fan of someone finishing someone else's work. It becomes fanfiction. Reified fanfiction, but fanfiction nevertheless.

#IntentionalFallacy

 

[The Artisan]

i just bought 4 of the books for $5 at a garage sale

 

[takriel]

i just bought 4 of the books for $5 at a garage sale

The first three are certainly worth it to be read!

 

[Gnome]

The first three are certainly worth it to be read!

Oh you people. If you appreciate the prose and not just the plot, the 4th is the best one.

 

[The Artisan]

The first three are certainly worth it to be read!

Oh you people. If you appreciate the prose and not just the plot, the 4th is best one.

i'll get to em all eventually =]

 

[Rest]

I've had multiple people try to get me to watch the show, and it is so boring. I need him to finish the books, because I don't want to finish this story through the show.

 

[JustSomeone]

His plan was making milliins from selling the rights all along. He has no reason to finish the books now.

 

[Bounceounce]

Don't worry, George, if you will not make it, Sanderson will finish the series for you, and it will be glorious. Just like he did for the Wheel of Time, another series of past that I thought I will never see the end of it.

Sanderson has already said he would never do this.

 

[Gnome]

Sanderson has already said he would never do this.

He's not suited for it either, like at all, their writing couldn't be any more different.

 

[Bounceounce]

If George dies the series should die with him.

He's not suited for it either, like at all, their writing couldn't be any more different.

Here's the source with Sandersons reasoning.
https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/com...his/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=comment_header

 

[Sarek]

This thread should just be thousand surejan.gifs.

 

[Basileus777]

Oh you people. If you appreciate the prose and not just the plot, the 4th is the best one.

Unfortunately the 5th one has the worst prose in the series along with its bloat and poor structure.

 

[Gnome]

Unfortunately the 5th one has the worst prose in the series along with its bloat and poor structure.

I won't deny it.

 

[VDenter]

Book 4 and 5 both while good suffer from huge amount of bloat. Seriously you could probably cut out 50% of each book and have no negative impact on them at all. If George had done that and just combined book 4 and 5 into one single book then Winds of Winter would probably be out by now.

 

[Not]

So what are the odds the rumors are true; he's already finished both and is going to surprise-release them before the show ends?

Spoiler

Pfhahaha

 

[Basileus777]

Book 4 and 5 both while good suffer from huge amount of bloat. Seriously you could probably cut out 50% of each book and have no negative impact on them at all. If George had done that and just combined book 4 and 5 into one single book then Winds of Winter would probably be out by now.

The bloat exists because GRRM doesn't allow himself to be edited and decided to add a bunch of new plothreads to the series because he was frustrated trying to salvage the structure of the series after he scrapped the 5 year gap and wanted to write something new. It's why he loves writing lore and world material, it's free from all the problems that plague the actual core plotline of the series. That and GRRM contracted Robert Jordan disease where he can't allow anything to happen offscreen anymore.

 

[danthefan]

Book 4 and 5 both while good suffer from huge amount of bloat. Seriously you could probably cut out 50% of each book and have no negative impact on them at all. If George had done that and just combined book 4 and 5 into one single book then Winds of Winter would probably be out by now.

I thought 4 wasn't too bad to be honest, people don't like it as much as the others but it drives the plot forward for the most part. 5 was awful, it's just filler for the rest of the story.

 

[Markitron]

If George had done that and just combined book 4 and 5 into one single book then Winds of Winter would probably be out by now.

IIRC they originally were 1 book before being split up.

I thought 4 wasn't too bad to be honest, people don't like it as much as the others but it drives the plot forward for the most part. 5 was awful, it's just filler for the rest of the story.

Tbh I thought they were equally dull. I originally read them all back to back, which probably didn't help, as they compare very poorly to the third book.

 

[HotHamBoy]

Unfortunately the 5th one has the worst prose in the series along with its bloat and poor structure.

I couldn't even get through the first book because of the prose.

 

[Jombie]

His prose is excellent from time to time, but it can also be tedious and repetitive. He suffers from the same word processor diarrhea that Stephen King has.

 

[Basileus777]

I couldn't even get through the first book because of the prose.

GRRM writes good dialogue, but the rest of his prose work isn't really anything special. It's better than most in genre fiction, but if you are judging from outside of that niche it's not something to read him for.

 

[Monocle]

I couldn't even get through the first book because of the prose.

Did you find it... ponderous?

 

[Charamiwa]

This is a great interview, too bad it's one of those "fuck you George" thread.

Unfortunately the 5th one has the worst prose in the series along with its bloat and poor structure.

The 5th one is extremely uneven and bloated, but the Theon chapters are some of the best in the whole series. To me there's still enough good (and even the less good is pleasant to read if you enjoy the world) to be all worth it.

The 4th book is simply excellent. May not be as plot heavy as the 3rd but thematically this is by far the most cohesive, and the prose is the best it's been.

 

[timetokill]

I think George is the only one who still thinks he's going to finish writing the books.