George R.R. Martin is infuriating. He really is. I love the series he is currently writing, but I’m growing very doubtful he will finish the series before he passes away. He’s not ill or anything but he writes very, very slowly. Worse, he has a ton of side projects. For example, a couple days ago he wrote a post about a couple anthologies he editing.
I couldn’t care less for his other projects. And I know I’m not alone. A couple weeks ago I sat next to a guy on a plane who, unprompted, told me he has the same complaint about Martin. And he wasn’t the old person who told me that. I chatted with a guy on the Metro who was reading one of Martin’s book and he had the same complaint.
Martin is a great writer and his series, A Song of Ice and Fire, may be my favorite fantasy series of all time. But it has taken him over 2 ½ years to write the second half of book 5 in his series. If it takes 3 years (at least) to finish ½ of a book, how long will it take him to finish the last 2 books? Who knows, but I’m becoming more and more discouraged that he will ever finish.
Ok…I’ve now read up through “A Feast Of Crows” and can finally understand your complaint in this post.
Now that I’ve read the Discworld books and “A Song Of Fire And Ice” I’m looking to you for some ideas about where I should go next. I’ve never had a recommendation from you that wasn’t excellent so…what should I read/listen to next?
I believe that there was a section in the back of my copy of A FEAST FOR CROWS where GRRM stated that the other half of the book was finished but the publisher split it due to length. I think he said it would be released in the fall immediately following the release of the first half. Well now, that’s total B.S. He needs to spend less time touring and blogging and more time writing. At this rate HBO will cancel the mini-series because there’s no conclusion. Hey, maybe Brandon Sanderson can finish GRRM’s work too.
Man, he really pushes my buttons. Arrogant ass!