Game Of Thrones And George Double R

Ichiro

Good Afternoon,

I have just completed Storm of Swords : Steel and Gold,
Yet have a question has the next book Feast of Crows already been published?

I have checked the websites and they tell me it will be out next year.

So I am a bit confused.

garthv

naa i dont think the next one in the series has been published yet.
i think his publishers are doing a bit of a Robert Jordan on us but sure the new years only a few days away,have to wait n see

Woden

amazon has various different release dates ranging from january to august of next year for the american edition

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/026-3193111-9782046

i have his other stuff in paperback while this will be in hardback now and i don't want to wait for the paperback, bugs the hell out of me that does

data

calis

it aint published yet. find all info from http://www.georgerrmartin.com/.

there even a sample chapter from next book. it be done when its done he says.

ixoy

GaRtH_V wrote:

i think his publishers are doing a bit of a Robert Jordan on us

You mean they're planning to make the next few installments a pile of turgid crap that unnessecarily complicates plots and yet moves nothing anywhere. That destroys all the joy and excitement you got from the first few books, making you weep for what once was whilst simultaenously enraging you because you can't stop even though it's wrong. Is that what you mean by "doing a bit of a Robert Jordan"?

calis

lol preach on brother ixoy!!!

garthv

/me claps
naa i meant write all the books first then release them out slowly and painfully with hardback/paperback,stop 2 books before the end,release a prequel to the first 10 books and release them painfully and slowly,all the while making as much profit as is humanly possible in the book world.

calis

i have first 10 r jordan books and man has he dragged that story out. i didnt read prequel and wont be buying book 11. it wud mean having to read 10 again because it been soooooooooooooooooooooooo long and i just wont do it! i wont! i wont!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i bought book ten the day it came out, it took me a month or so to work my way up to page 200 or so and then I gave up. Such a **** book.

Ichiro

Thank you all for the Info and swearing

Love it !

calis

its nearly finished YAY!!!!!

Thorbar

If you really liked the first three books in the Song of Fire and Ice, I'd suggest having a look at some of Martin's ealier books to kill the time till the next book comes out. Tuf Voyaging and Fevre Dream are excellent although very different from the Song of Fire and Ice.

Also the delay in the 4th book coming out has nothing to do with the publisher as far as I can tell from reading Martin's own comments on his site. I think he really takes his time and doesn't crank out the 4 inchers each year like Reynolds or Hamilton.

Sarky

I've only started reading A Game Of Thrones. It's a bit good...

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

it gets more than a bit fantastic

Sarky

Is everyone in it such a vicious scheming little f*cker?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

heh, you've only started readin

you've seen nothin yet hehe

Woden

i just gave a lend of a game of thrones to a girl in work who usually reads danielle steel, she is however a big lord of the rings fan iirc. then i started thinking of the content of the book and i was saying to her perhaps you won't like this.

she was wondering why and i started mentioning ah there is casual incest, rape and such in it, then i remembered as well that it gets somewhat sexually explicit at some points.

then i said "but its a really good book"

i'll be interested to see what she makes of it.

that is all

data

calis

we demand more SEX its not nearly explict enuf ... stop killing characters and get them humping instead i say.

best fantasy books i read in a long time tho :eek:

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

if george r. r. martin wrote a book with terry goodkind, we'd be sorted. Goodkind's got a bit of a "thing" for rape scenes in his books.

Sarky

Just finished GOT, after losig the book for a few days.

Wow.

Why the hell didn't I start reading sooner?

Soon to buy the next one...

Ah, poor Neddy Stark, why'd they go and kill you? You were cool...

calis

that just the begininning m8 .............. :eek:

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

*nod*

it gets worse

or better, if you're only reading it.. not actually *in* the book

Raz

Ah, A Song of Ice and Fire. One of the finest reads I've had the pleasure of picking up.
A Feast for Crows looks like it's going to be far more centered around character developement. Sample chapters he's put up on his site so far are from the perspective of Arya, Cersei, and Damphair, the last two of which have never had their own perspectives shown before.

Speculation on the choice of the title would suggest that some major amount of sh*t is gonna hit the fan up at The Wall.
I love it when he screws up the story line

Scruff

ixoy wrote:

Is that what you mean by "doing a bit of a Robert Jordan"?

i hope you had your hand firmly planted on a sequoia tree to ward off the evil of such a thing happening to His Supreme Authorship George RR!!

I've been pimping George RR's books in nearly every thread about fantasy books on this board! If i was a woman and he wasnt so ugly i'd want to have his babies.

That said i've stopped expecting the book to be out every other month. Me thinks it'll actually be two books, not one.

hachidan

ixoy wrote:

You mean they're planning to make the next few installments a pile of turgid crap that unnessecarily complicates plots and yet moves nothing anywhere. That destroys all the joy and excitement you got from the first few books, making you weep for what once was whilst simultaenously enraging you because you can't stop even though it's wrong. Is that what you mean by "doing a bit of a Robert Jordan"?

Bravo - couldn't have put it better myself
(But then I haven't really tried)