The new covers
https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2024/07/09/on-the-road-again-5/
Blog about TWOW where he assures the book reveal will be a huge event.
Let me say a few words about that, though. Last year, when I mentioned seeing my Voyager editor in London, the internet went nuts, throwing up all sorts of theories about how this meant that WINDS OF WINTER was done and a huge announcement was at hand. Uhhhh… sorry guys, but no. That's not how it works. Making contacts… which often turn into friendships… is a huge part of publishing. Most of my communication with my editors and publishers is conducted via emails, phone calls, zooms, and texts (in the old days, we had letters written on paper too)
So calm down, please. When WINDS OF WINTER is done, the word will not trickle out, there WILL be a big announcement… where and when I cannot say.
https://old.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/1dzk4gq/spoilers_main_grrm_when_winds_of_winter_is_done/
ASOIAFcels 
for the 100th time
!bookworms !kino do you like the new covers?
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Lol glad I dropped this gay butt series and never watched the show, you guys just keep getting cucked
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He has nothing on King Killercels. Our author is off doing twitch streams instead of writing last I looked
Second book was released back in 2011 and nothing since
I just want more Chandrian stuff
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Dude he's the fricking worst. He actually wants to be like GRRM and thinks eternally cucking his fans is funny (which it is, so fair play).
Also despite how fun those books are, he's a fricking hack and his editor needs to beat him with a belt the next time he decides to write some weird neck beard revenge r*pe fantasy bs. And that weird bullshit about dommy mommy breeding culture was so fricking rslurred. He literally wrote half a book about that stork deniers meme.
I'm still going to read his shit if he ever releases it though, so jokes on me I guess.
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My literary career has a better chance of existing than Doors of Stone does
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What happened to him? Anyone know why he just completely stopped writing?
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https://old.reddit.com/r/ChoosingBeggars/comments/1dczg3a/author_of_the_kingkiller_chronicle_is_looking_for/
Last I encountered
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That's a heck of a list
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when the writer goes on an unhinged blog post rant about stop asking him when the next book is gonna be done...AND there's another book after that? Guys pick up the hint it's never happening short of Brandon Sanderson ghostwriting ANOTHER gay butt fantasy series ending
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Brando plays the long game.
Soon every fantasy franchise will be Mormon
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Yeah honestly I gave up on it a long time so. The books were great and the show was really good up to season 4, but anyone who thinks the series is
anything other than dead in the water is just coping.
There are other great fantasy series out there by authors who actually care about their work. Go read one of those.
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Such as?
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Malazan is like the anti-ASOIF. It's a labor of love by a super talented author that's so long and complex that the reason you'll never finish it is purely because there's so much to it that it's like a 5 year long investment to get through the whole thing. I started it 10 years ago and I'm only halfway through (though I've read the first ones a few times trying to give myself context when I pick it up again).
It would also be basically impossible to adapt to TV, so no worries about normies ruining it for you.
It also does dark fantasy better than any other series I've read IMO. Nothing is overdone, but some parts of the series are really fricking grim. The first chapter is actually pretty lit. If you read it and like it, there's a good chance you'll like the series.
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Thanks!
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Hope you enjoy it, king. The Black Company is also worth a read.
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I've saved this comment and I'm willing to try out the series IF you can explain this nonsensical 'le-masterpiece' paragraph on the series' wikipedia page.
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tl;dr: The series is heckin good!
t. a bunch of authors
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Not like you had a choice lol
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You've been missing out.
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I was reading it around the time the TV series first came out, read from the beginning up until the red wedding in a few weeks. After reading that, I distinctly remember thinking "wow, he just killed off all the Starks I'm interested in reading about. This is gay.", closed the book, and never opened it again. Yeah I know sansa, Arya, and Robb are around, and Catelyn comes back as a zombie queen or whatever, but I felt insulted as a reader for even getting invested into what seemed like "the stark story" and having that happen.
I've since sold the books (had the collection of four) and won't pick it up again tbh.
ETA: IIRC robb gets killed and brann is who I'm thinking of who wasn't there and is still alive. It was Robb's death that pissed me off bad enough to never pick it up again.
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It IS the Stark Story. Arya, Sansa, Bran and Jon Snow will make it up to the final line and the story is centered around them, they're the "ice" of "ice and fire".
Robb wasn't even a POV character
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