ASOIAF

[Anonymous No.18047177]

Next book when?

[Anonymous No.18047330]

It's a modern fantasy series. Who gives a shit?

[Anonymous No.18047341]

kek is this fat kike still stalling?

[Anonymous No.18047437]

>>18047177
Wow, the winds of winter still isn't out yet? I stopped checking in 2018

[Anonymous No.18048474]

My friend wants us to read through the series because he's convinced it'll come out any day now. What should I tell him?

[Anonymous No.18048509]

>>18048474
"how about reading Proust, instead?"

[Anonymous No.18048518]

>>18048509
based

[Anonymous No.18048637]

in one of his recent blogposts he said he is "hugely behind", and that when it was his most productive year ever, it will NOT happen

[Anonymous No.18048661]

Unironically never, he wrote for money and now he has enough of that.

[Anonymous No.18048804]

>>18047177
>Next book when?
When GRRM passes away and whoever the publisher decides will finish the series gets to work. I know GRRM has said he doesn't want anyone to finish it, but I still think this will be a Jordan-Sanderson situation

[Anonymous No.18048839]

[Anonymous No.18048885]

I assumed it would come out after the show ended, and he had just been stalling to fuck the directors over.

[Anonymous No.18048984]

cant be writers block. when the franchise is worth that much they could bring a team into help

[Anonymous No.18049195]

>>18048885
>>18048984
Personally I think he's rewriting the entire plot, especially after the abysmal reception of King Bran on the show

[Anonymous No.18049358]

>>18048804
The difference is that Jordan explicitly wanted his series to be finished after his death and left an absolute metric shitload of writing on how it was supposed to end. If GRRM doesn't want anyone to finish it then I'd imagine he wouldn't leave a ton of notes the way Jordan did. Depending on how he feels about it he may just delete everything he had written up as he lies on his deathbed.

[Anonymous No.18049469]

>>18049195
Stan is killing his daughter, or shireen dying in general has poor reception.

[Anonymous No.18049547]

>>18047177
He cornered himself by adding way too many point of view characters.
Read a Throne of Bones.

[Anonymous No.18050096]

>>18049547
>He cornered himself by adding way too many point of view characters.
Why did he thought having the Starks as the most P.OV was a good idea.

[Anonymous No.18050122]

What I don't understand is that in 2020 he literally had nothing else to do. There were no comic book conventions. There were no sci-fi/fantasy conventions. There were no late night talk shows to do interviews on. Everyone was stuck at home for huge chunks of the year. He literally had nothing ELSE to do but bend over his dumb little machine and write The Winds Of Winter.

And he STILL didn't get it done.

[Anonymous No.18050130]

>>18050122
It was always an excuse, anon.

[Anonymous No.18050135]

>>18050122
He has literally not worked on it in years

[Anonymous No.18050144]

>>18050122
He's hoping he can stall it until he dies

[Anonymous No.18050191]

>when
Lol

[Anonymous No.18050216]

>>18050130
>>18050135
>>18050144
I mean, I guess I always knew that, deep down, but it wasn't really driven home for me just HOW true it was until last year.

[Anonymous No.18050262]

It's so complicated.
The expectations are so high.
Everyone hated the show.
My legacy is on the line.
Maybe I'll just take the night off and have something to eat.
Some lemon cakes sound good...

[Anonymous No.18050315]

Reminder that a few years ago he said to a fellow writer, "You ever kill off someone you later realize you needed?"

So his autistic love of shockingly killing off characters has nuked a critical element of his plot. That's got to be part of why he hasn't been writing, because he knows he fucked himself.

[Anonymous No.18050323]

>>18050315
I wonder who was it? Was it Eddard? Renly? We know that fat fuck doesn't plan ahead.

[Anonymous No.18050334]

>>18050323
My thinking is that it's got to be someone who died in the first three books. If it was someone who died in Feast or Dance, then that's "soon" enough that he could play around and somehow retcon their death. So I think it must be someone who's been dead for so long, in-story, that he can't easily bring them back.

[Anonymous No.18050358]

>>18050334
The four major characters that died in Game of Thrones were Eddard, Robert, Viserys, and Drogo.

A Clash of Kings, Renly was the only major character that died. I think.

A Storm of Swords, Oberyn, Lysa, Tywin, Joffrey, Mormont and Robb and his top chiefs.

[Anonymous No.18050360]

>>18050358
He needed Viserys to be Dany's husbando

[Anonymous No.18050379]

>>18050360
I doubt it, but then again, wasn't this the same guy who refuse to plan ahead since it would make the progress artificial?

[Anonymous No.18050433]

>>18050315
So just bring them back like lady stark

[Anonymous No.18050442]

>>18050433
That was a once in a life-time thing. And it can't be replicated.

[Anonymous No.18050443]

>>18050315
Are we writing a book or a d&d campaign here?

[Anonymous No.18050449]

>>18050442
It’s fucking fiction. He can write whatever he wants. He’s just a brainlet.

[Anonymous No.18050461]

A 70-year-old nerdy introvert accidentally becomes a celebrity writer due to a TV show people end up turning on...primary strength is world-building/lore and stress eating.

That ending writes itself.

[Anonymous No.18050463]

>>18050449
He shot himself in the foot by making his story low-fantasy. And the dumbass kept prattling on about that.

[Anonymous No.18050501]

>>18050443
Pull a Malazan, one can be both

[Anonymous No.18050724]

>>18047177
Disgusting

[Anonymous No.18050775]

>>18048509
I went to a seaside "Summarize Proust" competition so I already know everything that happens anyway

[Anonymous No.18050815]

>>18047177
Could the mods please place a sticky for the fat bastard so we don't have to see constant threads about this lazy fuck and his never to be seen novel? Perhaps "George R R Martin sucks retarded dragon balls"?

[Anonymous No.18050885]

Anyone here read the Dunk and Egg novellas? Would you recommend them?

[Anonymous No.18050915]

>>18050885
I've read two, they're decent if you're into asoiaf lore (the best non-main books he's written) but if not don't bother

[Anonymous No.18050992]

>>18050885
only the first one is good, the other two are forgettable

[Anonymous No.18051032]

>>18047177
not /lit/

[Anonymous No.18051153]

>>18047177
no.

[Anonymous No.18052651]

>>18049358
the final decision will be up to his widow (assuming she outlives him)

the publishers will 100% want another writer to finish it because the series is a goldmine, can't pass it up

[Anonymous No.18052680]

>>18047177
If this post gets singles, then never. Check'em.

[Anonymous No.18052711]

>>18048804
This. Family, close friends and publishers never listen an author's posthumous wishes. Whenever an author explicitly stated to never have his manuscripts published or unfinished works finished, they publish it anyway. It happened to Emily Dickinson, Franz Kafka, and Carl Jung.

[Anonymous No.18052752]

>>18052651
GRRM is an atheist and so is his wife, this means his wife has no respect for the wishes of the dead and prioritizes the material world. This means she will 100% fuck him over from beyond the grave and authorize someone else to continue the series. The money will be too good to pass up.

[Anonymous No.18052753]

>>18052711
I was about to say Salinger’s family but his son cucked on ebooks a couple of years ago. Goddamn it.

[Anonymous No.18052895]

>>18050323
it can't be ned the entire story revolves around his death

[Anonymous No.18052902]

>>18052895
The War of the Five kings was bound to happen. Stannis and Renly knew about Joffrey's real parentage. Ned's death just allowed the North to not align themselves with Stannis.

[Anonymous No.18052940]

>>18052902
if ned teamed up with stannis they pretty easily win the war

[Anonymous No.18053762]

>>18052940
Pretty sure Stannis or Rob would have won the war if the fat man didn’t make things too contrived so the Lannister would win.

[Anonymous No.18053827]

>>18053762
Yeah, it was Stannis’ shadow babies that won the war for the Lannister’s. Killing Renly forced the Reach to join with Joffrey.

[Anonymous No.18053882]

>>18053827
No, it was stupid shit like lannisters and Tyrell reaching an alliance in short order. Or how, Tyrion’s plan was bullshit yet worked. Or how a mountain clan somehow defeated scouts on their home turf in a forest.

[Anonymous No.18054271]

>>18050122
The new got shows are coming. Prequels

[Anonymous No.18054625]

>>18050122
If I had to guess hes probably just enjoying life at this point and doesnt care about finishing the books as much as he used to. Guy didnt hit it big until he was already pretty old.

[Anonymous No.18055308]

>>18049547
Fuck off vox, you'll never finish either.

[Anonymous No.18056343]

>>18054625
Many such cases.

[Anonymous No.18056718]

don't listen to them George. come home