https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/uph45l/game_of_thrones_author_says_winds_of_winter_could?sort=controversial
Last book came out in 2011 or something like that. I don't remember any of it anymore and just gave up, but he does this once a year to troll us. It's well done. It hit /r/popular.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister. 
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Reminder that Robert Jordan finished his story with three 1000-page books years after he fricking died.
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reminder that anyone can write 1,000,000 pages of pure garbage.
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Tolkien also had enough materials for his kid to release like 3 books after his death as well. Martin is just a lazy bastard whoβs drunk on HBO and From Soft cash he knows he doesnβt need to try anymore.
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I cannot fricking move
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You can relate to him then
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lol poor carp.
Do you like massages? When I was bustin my hump for the man 12 hours a day to build my business, I would pull my muscle in my back and a massage really helped. It hurt like a mf though.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Get someone to jump on your back till you feel better
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At this point the fans are in a froth with anticipation, and theyβre especially desperate to see the real ending considering how they hated the HBO finale. Nothing he writes could ever fully satisfy that. Thereβd be a serious danger of nerd outrage like with what Lucas had been dealing with ever since Episode 1.
On the other hand, if he never finishes the story, his reputation will never take a hit, and these same nerds will eat anything he does mention out of his hand.
Plus he hardly needs the money anymore.
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Yeah, I think whatever he does with the ending will be ripped to shreds with hate and they will have a meltdown. I don't get the feeling he cares though. He's the male JK Rowling and he has plenty of money and doesn't care if people hate him.
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lol GRRM isn't the fan darling you think he is. he was spared a lot of criticism after the show turned to shit, but after it ended people have been calling him lazy, misdirected, sold out.
he can follow the same story beats as the show did but intertwine them with the same quality the previous books had and people would be just fine with that.
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You're an idiot.
His kid is a trash writer.
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Chris Tolkien? Chris mostly compiled all his dads scraps and notes and put together the simillerilion and unfinished tales he was more of a curator and editor.
I am an idiot tho that is true.
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Silmarillion is really cool, I'm glad it got published. It provides a lot of extra meaning to everything in Lord of the Rings.
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what are you talking about
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Yep, and he's released dragon stories since he promised his last book like 5 years ago. The ice dragon one was pretty good. I was able to read it on my plane to and from NC.
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There has to come a point where your shit is just so hyped that it cripples you. Itβs so overhyped now that disappointment is inevitable heβll never be able to write a satisfactory ending.
Especially if the books end along the same lines as the show.
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What I'm wondering about is his payment. I know these people get millions upfront from publishers but they have deadlines to meet, so I wonder how this works when it's been over a decade and he hasn't delivered. I can see them not caring if he's a couple years late but it's been over a decade and still hasn't been released so the publisher just gave him money to sit on his fat butt and do nothing.
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He doesnt need money. He just got Japbucks.
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The ice dragon was an old story he had republished to capitalize on the fame of game of thrones. It was published in the early 80s if I remember correctly. So it's even worse than him focusing on a new story instead of the main one. He's downright grifting his fans.
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Dance with dragons sucked and I am glad he will never finish the next book
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i think the problem is he saw how terrible the ending was (and the reaction to it) of the TV show, so he's had to scrap an entire book to rewrite the story.
i'm always going to believe this, based on absolutely nothing other than "yeah that seems like it could happen".
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He made some kind of comments about how the show ending had some things in common with his planned ending, but I think the main implication was just dragon princess going crazy and being a bad guy.
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3? I count at least 18 and I may be forgetting some.
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And they weren't that great.
It's one of the most overrated works of fiction I've ever read (as a kid). Honestly, seeing the TV show butcher it makes me so happy.
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I didn't know if I'd call it overrated, but after going online and seeing people unironically call it a masterpiece when it's extremely flawed made it worthy of the label.
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"Why eat steak at a restaurant when you can rummage a dumpster in the alley?" <--- you
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