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Happy Landfill posted:I was just going to say that lol At this point whatever the cover ends up being is going to be a disappointment--not that it's bad but every one is so used to this horn cover that the official one just isn't going to look right, no matter how good it is. I feel like they should just track down the artist and buy it off of them, or something. It's been so long now that Bantam's probably due to release a brand new set of cover art designs at some point anyway so that people will loving never have a complete consistent set of books if Winds ever gets released somehow.
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Xiahou Dun posted:He does it to gently caress with me, personally, and I refuse to believe anything else.
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nine-gear crow posted:It's been so long now that Bantam's probably due to release a brand new set of cover art designs at some point anyway so that people will loving never have a complete consistent set of books if Winds ever gets released somehow. See, it's better for the bottom line 
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Invalid Validation posted:Maybe he just does it to keep his publisher off his back. Yeah sound like real hard asses. They've been really hounding him these last....12 years.
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I doubt we would have gotten TWOIAF and Fire and Blood if not for his publishers. Or Dance, actually, since they were the ones who convinced him to stop and move the material he had to Winds.
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Wasn't the one before Dance already something his publisher pressured him to get out, he saw it as one book with Dance and wanted to edit it more. So either that one would already not have ever come out, or that's where he had to publish half baked chapters that he can't undo now. Either way, not a good sign.
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Xiahou Dun posted:See it’s the lying that pisses me off. mark immune posted:the book will never be released so this won’t be an issue Kylaer posted:To quote a much better and more productive author, Sometimes, he was easy to hate.
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I do believe that he is rewriting that book, I have never had any doubt about that Thats the opposite of "making progress" though edit: actually, I would bet that every day he works on that book, it gets less done Elias_Maluco fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Jul 24, 2023 |
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forcing Gurm to publish the unfinished third of a book that is adwd was a genius business decision worth many millions of dollars, I really get gurm's laziness but had he published anything, really anything, during the 8 years the show was on the air he would have made so much money, gotta love the man's lack of dedication.
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/culturecrave/status/1683171556166631425?s=46&t=CBKJcBX0BD3U5HgUdsqBtw he's basically colonel aureliano buendía from 100 years of solitude
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/culturecrave/status/1683171556166631425?s=46&t=CBKJcBX0BD3U5HgUdsqBtw "I want to see the (fat) man fly!"
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Typo posted:he's not lying, it's just that he'll go back and re-write the same chapters over and over again. Ensuring it will never finish That's a deep literary cut. On point, too.
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These books were originally only supposed to be a trilogy, after all I seem to remember an article from...god, it's was pre-2015, at least, with his editor and she was strongly suggesting turning it in to eight books. I still kind of suspect we might get eight books if they ever come out
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Happy Landfill posted:These books were originally only supposed to be a trilogy, after all It's a contagious curse. Bakker's 'Prince of Nothing' series was also meant to be short, but it only got buzz after book 2, and hey, why surf that wave for only 1 book more? Let's cook up some extra plot to -really- let the readers down 4 books ahead!
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vseslav.botkin posted:I doubt we would have gotten TWOIAF and Fire and Blood if not for his publishers. It was less "convinced him" and more that Bantam panicked and forced him to give them the manuscript and cut it off at what they felt was an appropriate end point because the show was months away from premiering at that point and they wanted to get something, anything out there to capitalize on what was probably gonna be the smash hit energy of the show. Then the show kept going and the books did not.
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nine-gear crow posted:It was less "convinced him" and more that Bantam panicked and forced him to give them the manuscript and cut it off at what they felt was an appropriate end point because the show was months away from premiering at that point and they wanted to get something, anything out there to capitalize on what was probably gonna be the smash hit energy of the show. Then the show kept going and the books did not. And both managed to make that terrible.
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Is there any proof he did anything for TWOIAF besides farting out napkin notes for the nazis like he gave D&D?
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Happy Landfill posted:I still kind of suspect we might get eight books Lying
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/culturecrave/status/1683171556166631425?s=46&t=CBKJcBX0BD3U5HgUdsqBtw Queen Penelope say's she's weaving a funeral shroud for Laertes nearly daily.
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Happy Landfill posted:I still kind of suspect we might get eight books if they ever come out Fourteen, and books 6-14 will be written with the help of Sanderson.
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He’s absolutely rewriting everything based on how poorly the ending of the show was received but running into the issue that the things he set up he has to change, so everything will be awkward and unnatural
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I'm old enough to remember thinking the Iraq invasion must really have thrown a wrench in the White Savior plotline he had planned for Dany.
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Hannibal Rex posted:I'm old enough to remember thinking the Iraq invasion must really have thrown a wrench in the White Savior plotline he had planned for Dany. ya, also started reading it pre 2003 lol. 2 decades, 2 new books. not good, not bad
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Libluini posted:Fourteen, and books 6-14 will be written with the help of Sanderson. Good Mormon boy Sanderson will not touch a book with so many godless sex-havers. He's more into wholesome polygamy, like in Wheel of Time.
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Does anyone have the old photoshops of GRRM as a Lovecraftian monstrosity?
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Xiahou Dun posted:Does anyone have the old photoshops of GRRM as a Lovecraftian monstrosity? ... his normal pic?
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There was at least one of him surrounded by tentacles of shadow that were holding lemon cakes
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Xiahou Dun posted:There was at least one of him surrounded by tentacles of shadow that were holding lemon cakes Yes, there are photographs of George R. R. Martin in the writers’ room.
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I want the one of him glaring at young Maisie Williams with the caption "SOON."
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mark immune posted:2 decades, 2 new books. not good, Fixed.
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Platystemon posted:Yes, there are photographs of George R. R. Martin in the writers’ room. Photoshop
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"Gentlemen, you can't finish books in here! It's the writers' room!"
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Kuiperdolin posted:"Gentlemen, you can't finish books in here! It's the writers' room!" Perfect post.
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Do we even know he wrote the first books? I have my doubts.
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Listen, let's not railroad the guy. He's written...something.
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Wait, was Ty the guy that used to screen his Livejournal posts so George never had to see anything negative?
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No Ty was the guy who wrote the books. According to this thread, at least.
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Trudis posted:Listen, let's not railroad the guy. He's written...something. He loves railroads so much he bought his own.
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