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Anonymous Mon Mar 15 13:36:07 2021 No.17789147 [Reply] [Original]

>72 years old
> Writing Winds of Winter for 10 years
> We're never getting A Dream of Spring

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 13:44:16 2021 No.17789202 I WANT TO FUCKING DIE.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 13:44:35 2021 No.17789204 >>17789147 Jon doesn't become king and marry Dany a la Aragorn, so I am displeased with the ending

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 13:46:08 2021 No.17789215 This isn't literature.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 13:52:03 2021 No.17789263 It would be incredibly funny if he actually lives up to be 100+ years old and still doesn't deliver.

Anonymous Mon Mar 15 13:55:45 2021 No.17789288

>>17789263
>the year is 2050
>I'm in my 60s
>sitting in the garden reading an old fashioned paper book
>watching my grandkids playing around
>the microchip in my brain buzzes
>"Author George R.R. Martin" dies at age 100 years old without finishing his A Song of Ice and Fire series
>get a heart attack from laughing
>my kids inherit my vast personal library
>they throw it away

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 14:00:26 2021 No.17789319 who cares anymore? the fat pig certainly doesn't

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 14:31:16 2021 No.17789555 Had a whole year where we can't go anywhere or do anything and he still isn't done. Recently said he wrote 00's of pages last year but still needs to do hundreds more. No chance of ever having ADoS

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 14:38:34 2021 No.17789614 >>17789555 >>17789319 >>17789202 >>17789147 Leave the man alone, he is beyond retirement age, the internet traumatised him, I hope he burns his manuscript and go write something else. >>17789204 Your incest ending will never be canon

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 14:46:09 2021 No.17789675 File: 50 KB, 156x144, img192~3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17789147 Is this fat moron gonna die already or what?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 14:47:07 2021 No.17789686 >>17789614 We're not bothering him in any way, how can we leave him alone anymore than we already are? What you meant to say is "how dare you speculate on something, even though you're not being at all hateful or insulting"

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 14:51:40 2021 No.17789731 >>17789147 When he started Winds of Winter, Party Rock Anthem had just come out, The King's Speech had just won Best Picture, and it would be another year and a half until the "binders full of women" Romney comment.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 16:08:57 2021 No.17790439 >>17789614 I agree internet is toxic, but the dude, after releasing three book in the spam of four years, released two of them in TWENTY years. He clearly lost control of it's own story somewhere after finish ASOS, after he scrapped the timeskip plan

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 16:16:43 2021 No.17790531 >>17789555 >Had a whole year where we can't go anywhere or do anything The saddest thing about Covid is that it changed pretty much zero about how I live, apart from having to wear a mask when shopping.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 16:20:36 2021 No.17790573 >>17789614 "R + L = J" is wrong. Jon's father is Ned and his mother is that Dornish chick who jumped off the cliff, but really she is the milf hanging out with the other lad who has recently taken the Baratheon castle.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 16:21:41 2021 No.17790585 >>17789147 Why do you think it's called a "dream" of spring?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 16:24:35 2021 No.17790606 >>17790573 The show disproves this anon, they wouldn't have made such a big change

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 16:25:53 2021 No.17790616 >>17790606 Fuck the show and it doesn't prove shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 16:50:00 2021 No.17790873 File: 132 KB, 810x1348, bearded man.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] noo not my pulperinoo

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 16:51:05 2021 No.17790888 >>17790873 Ulysses was originally pulp

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 16:55:35 2021 No.17790922 >>17790873 I am glad somebody else understands why I carry a photo of a slampig spit-roasting on a twinning set of throbbing BBC. I flash it to everyone I meet to determine if they know the answer to the only question that matters: are you from /pol/?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 17:02:31 2021 No.17790990 If gurm dies Preston Jacobs's theories are all officially canon

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 17:03:32 2021 No.17791003 >>17789263 That's the sense of humor the universe tends to have. I wouldn't be surprised

Anonymous Mon Mar 15 17:34:05 2021 No.17791227

>>17789147
>"I'm writing Winds of Winter and Dream of Spring at the same time, so Dream of Spring should come out only a few months after Winds of Winter
>Winds of Winter comes out in 2041 when GRRM is 92
>"lol just kidding I never got around to finishing Dream of Spring, have fun with the HBO ending"

Anonymous Mon Mar 15 17:53:08 2021 No.17791405

Him not finishing Winds of Winter ASAP after the shitty final season was his biggest mistake
>everyone hates final season
>everyone really hates final ep
>but there's a ray of hope, the books still aren't done
If he got Winds of Winter done by early 2020 and it was a success, it could have wiped out the taste of shit from the hardcore fans mouth. Instead that time has passed and odds are it will never be done.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 18:19:53 2021 No.17791618 >>17790990 No, Lucifer means Lightbringer's theories would be canon since they're more grounded than Preston's

Anonymous Mon Mar 15 18:23:17 2021 No.17791641

>>17791618
Look at a picture of your nephew or of you at my age then look at me. How do you not feel ashamed? Look how much effort I put into being desired and worshiped? You put in nothing. You put in a geeky dweeb face with a fucking moustache. No woman of worth would want to even spit on that. Just trash all around.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 18:30:48 2021 No.17791682 >>17789731 That really puts it into perspective lel. I wonder if he’s rewriting the villain to be more trump like and less Romney like, which he probably calls “character updating” or something.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 19:15:23 2021 No.17792049 >>17789288 je

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 23:43:01 2021 No.17793721 >>17789147 lel

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 16 00:22:59 2021 No.17793965 I've given up on this fucking hack, any other book series of a similar tone and scale to ASOIAF that I can read to fill the void? Preferably finished series

Anonymous Tue Mar 16 01:12:50 2021 No.17794212

>>17793965
Tad Williams is probably the guy who influenced grrm most, so you might give his Memory, Sorrown and Thorn series a shot.
Other than that, more modern and akin to grrm in its (successful Id say) attempt to write the genre differently, I'd recommend the First Law trilogy by Abercrombie.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 16 01:14:39 2021 No.17794220 >>17789147 They are all ready, they are going to be released posthumously

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 16 01:22:38 2021 No.17794271 >>17793965 Apparently Gurrm got heavy inspiration from Druon's The Cursed Kings series.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 16 01:50:09 2021 No.17794388 >>17794220 He had a good few chapters already written for TWoW when the most recent book was published.

Anonymous Tue Mar 16 02:08:55 2021 No.17794456

>GRR Martins SOIAF series total page count
>Roughly 4100 pages
>Not finished after 27 years
>JK Rowlings Harry Potter series
>Roughly 3400 pages
>Started and finished in just under 10 years, 1997 to 2007
>Stephen King regularly broke 1000 pages a year, often releasing two substantial length books a year
>Terry Pratchett released books at a rate beyond 1 per year, roughly 500 pages or so per year
This guy just does not give a fuck.
He must spend months on end just vacationing. He's creating SOIAF at a rate of 0.4 of a page per day, despite it being his job, despite all of the luxury and peace he can afford, despite a TV show being made alongside his writing and outpacing it and fully wrapping up over a span of 8 years. EIGHT YEARS.
Stephen King produces roughly 6 pages of finished product per day when he works.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 16 02:39:26 2021 No.17794570 >>17794456 Ok so different books have different page sizes, if you go by word count Harry Potter series - 1 million words - 10 years SOIAF series - 1.7 million words - 27 years So it still isn't great

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 16 07:10:42 2021 No.17795414 File: 85 KB, 1107x623, Eu9_F7FXYAUXJm0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Tell me he has an excuse or something

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 16 07:21:47 2021 No.17795450 >>17794271 He was just inspired by them. Apart from court intrigue and sex there's no similarities.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 16 07:31:02 2021 No.17795482 >>17789147 No

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 16 12:48:43 2021 No.17797149 >>17789263 >>17791003 Rich people tend to live longer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 16 13:49:47 2021 No.17797529 >>17789614 Releasing a book of free verse poetry about his lawn would be a serious chad move.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 16 13:59:48 2021 No.17797569 >>17789147 I love these threads just to see the ways /lit/ calls Martin a fat lazy fuck.

Anonymous Tue Mar 16 16:19:33 2021 No.17798502

>>17797149
Not fatasses that make it big 3/4 of the way through their life. You're thinking of businessmen that make it big in their 20's and 30's and use money to take care of them after they burn out their youth. This fucker is morbidly obese in his 70's, I'm honestly surprised he hasn't had a heart attack yet

Anonymous Tue Mar 16 19:14:35 2021 No.17799689

>>17789147
I think he knows he has a better shot at being remembered forever if his series remains unfinished. An ending to a series like this is almost certain to be disappointing and people will want to forget. If he leaves us hanging people will talk about what might have been forever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 16 19:32:12 2021 No.17799815 >>17799689 This People are waiting for him to die to write theses about what they think foreshadowing says would have been the ending

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