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re: Will George R R R R Martin ever finish the G o T Books?
Posted on 7/18/17 at 12:54 pm to Sasquatch Smash
Posted on 7/18/17 at 12:54 pm to Sasquatch Smash
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Basically, Sanderson would be a poor choice to finish the series.
That's fair.
OK, make it Joe Abercrombie then. He's gruesome and graphic enough.
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Posted on 7/18/17 at 12:59 pm to Scanlon Shorthalt
A lot of Steven Erikson is pretty disturbing as well but he may be busy
Posted on 7/18/17 at 1:02 pm to Ben Lilly
I believe Winds is finished and that we'll see a dream of spring released in 2025 posthumously, and if anyone finishes it besides GRRM it will be a combination of Linda, Ran and his editors. I'm an optimist though.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 1:02 pm to Ben Lilly
I believe Winds is finished and that we'll see a dream of spring released in 2025 posthumously, and if anyone finishes it besides GRRM it will be a combination of Linda, Ran and his editors. I'm an optimist though.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 1:44 pm to ZenFNmaster
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I believe Winds is finished and that we'll see a dream of spring released in 2025 posthumously, and if anyone finishes it besides GRRM it will be a combination of Linda, Ran and his editors. I'm an optimist though.
My optimistic fantasy, when it comes to the final two books, is that he is close to finished on both (definitely done on book 6) and that he will release them back to back within a few months of each other once the show is complete. He'll gauge how the audience likes the ending provided with the show then make some tweaks to the final product.
But, alas, this is only but a dream.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 3:52 pm to Sasquatch Smash
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My optimistic fantasy, when it comes to the final two books, is that he is close to finished on both (definitely done on book 6) and that he will release them back to back within a few months of each other once the show is complete. He'll gauge how the audience likes the ending provided with the show then make some tweaks to the final product.
But, alas, this is only but a dream.
I've actually read some fan speculation that he is waiting out the show to see where they go with things. It seems like once the final season is done shooting, he will be in the clear. Maybe late 17 early 18?
Posted on 7/18/17 at 3:55 pm to skullhawk
Posted on 7/18/17 at 8:58 pm to Sasquatch Smash
This has also been my hope. But I have never had much faith in the notion except when I've been drinking. I'm only an optimist when I'm drunk. The sober pragmatist knows that he's tied quite a series if knots for himself and they'll never be untangled.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 9:43 pm to pilsnerpusher
If I started a book series, watched it get made into one of the best shows ever on t.v., and got filthy rich in the process then I probably wouldn't finish the book series.
Watching your vision come to life on a t.v. screen and then watching that vision climax has to be influencing his decision to stay motivated.
It's been so long since I read the books the show is the only thing real anymore. I can't even remember the differences and don't care to.
The books were fricking fantastic, though.
Oh yeah... dear diary,
Watching your vision come to life on a t.v. screen and then watching that vision climax has to be influencing his decision to stay motivated.
It's been so long since I read the books the show is the only thing real anymore. I can't even remember the differences and don't care to.
The books were fricking fantastic, though.
Oh yeah... dear diary,
This post was edited on 7/18/17 at 9:45 pm
Posted on 7/18/17 at 10:28 pm to Ben Lilly
I bought the first book in the spring of 1999 on my first business trip out of college. Gave up on Martin and the books a long time ago. I'm fine with getting my closure for the series from the TV show.
Posted on 7/24/17 at 3:09 pm to DeoreDX
nvm, the crackpot theory covered the "update" already.
This post was edited on 7/24/17 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 7/24/17 at 5:10 pm to TigerFanatic99
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Pretty sure he's doing just that. He's not happy that people are predicting his death and has stated many times that when he dies, the IP dies with him.
What a cocksucker George Martin is.
Posted on 7/24/17 at 5:57 pm to Scanlon Shorthalt
Get Kevin Anderson. He can do for this series what he did for Dune.
Posted on 7/24/17 at 8:21 pm to prplhze2000
Posted on 7/24/17 at 11:07 pm to Sneaky__Sally
I was being very very sarcastic
Posted on 7/25/17 at 7:55 am to prplhze2000
you were just the last person who posted, i wasn't replying to you.
Posted on 7/25/17 at 8:27 am to Sneaky__Sally
Poor Ben Lilly. He got off to such a promising start as a poster then bam, fingered as a alter. RIP Ben.
Posted on 7/28/17 at 5:58 pm to Groovie
I'm pretty sure he told the show runners his planned ending so I will be taking the show as canon and calling it a day on this one.
Posted on 7/29/17 at 7:55 am to lsu1919
It is kinda strange to think that there could be adult fans today that were named after characters in the first book. But hell, they'll probably be collecting social security before this thing is done.
Posted on 7/29/17 at 8:29 pm to Ben Lilly
No. And I don't feel like he's even really pretending anymore.
Martin is an almost unimaginable dickhead too. The more one reads about him (or reads his own personal statements) the more one is convinced that he'll refuse to allow anyone to finish it after he dies. I believe he's said as much.
I already thought he was kind of full of shite about how hard it was to finish the series and why it was taking so long, but then I read Joe Abercrombie and I began to just actively despise Martin. Abercrombie wrote 6 novels in the First Law universe - a complete trilogy and 3 stand-alones in the time since Martin's last Thrones book. I'm not going to sit here and claim that Abercrombie's world is quite as richly detailed or his plots as complex, but COME ON, they're pretty damn good. Once you've read them it really puts Martin in perspective - he's a lazy fat a-hole.
Martin is an almost unimaginable dickhead too. The more one reads about him (or reads his own personal statements) the more one is convinced that he'll refuse to allow anyone to finish it after he dies. I believe he's said as much.
I already thought he was kind of full of shite about how hard it was to finish the series and why it was taking so long, but then I read Joe Abercrombie and I began to just actively despise Martin. Abercrombie wrote 6 novels in the First Law universe - a complete trilogy and 3 stand-alones in the time since Martin's last Thrones book. I'm not going to sit here and claim that Abercrombie's world is quite as richly detailed or his plots as complex, but COME ON, they're pretty damn good. Once you've read them it really puts Martin in perspective - he's a lazy fat a-hole.
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