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Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here
:synpa:

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oldpainless
Oct 30, 2009

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There are millions of people who have waiting like over a decade for his next book and the man absolutely refuses to write it and I respect the hell out of him

Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here
He's never going to release it. And even if he does. He will croak before he finishes the last one.

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
i don't even think he's working on it any more lol

Archer666
Dec 27, 2008
Very brave and prophetic of his mother to name him George Rape Rape Martin

Fanelien
Nov 23, 2003

TaurusTorus posted:

A Song of Ice and Fire isn't done until I get graphic descriptions of every character getting diarrhea.

at once? all in the same room? just pages upon pages of vivid description of massive bowel trauma experienced en masse?

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe

oldpainless posted:

There are millions of people who have waiting like over a decade for his next book and the man absolutely refuses to write it and I respect the hell out of him

It was good for a while but the act is getting stale, he needs to do something fresh. Publish a 600 page sequel that absolutely does not advance the plot. Just chapter after chapter describing what all the named characters are eating for dinner.

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

George should troll the fans by writing a GoT Isekai.

Charles Bukowski
Aug 26, 2003

Taskmaster 2023 Second Place Winner

Grimey Drawer
Sucks if a series you like doesn't finish before you die. The dying sucks worse though.

thehandtruck
Mar 5, 2006

the thing about the jews is,

Waltzing Along posted:

He's never going to release it. And even if he does. He will croak before he finishes the last one.

theres TWO mroe!?!?!?!?!? oh ya, im safe then

Chrs
Sep 21, 2015

I wouldn’t worry too much about that OP

Extra Large Marge
Jan 21, 2004

Fun Shoe
They allready ended this with the HBO show so there is no need:

Vince does the movie
Drama wins a Golden Globe
E gets married and has a kid
Turtle loses a bunch of weight and gets plowed by Ronda Rousey

A happy ending for all, thank you George RR Martin

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER
George Ruff Ryderz Martin

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

I hope Brian Herbert writes the last two books. I really liked his Dune stuff. He did good with that

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag
ASOIAF is good for the first three books, but once the war is over and the Starks are dead he just opens it up too much when it should have ended on a tragic but high note.

Patrick Rothfuss: Name of the Wind is fantastic, the second book is bad for the first half and then gets better but is still forgettable. The novella about the little elf lady or whatever I didn’t get more than 30 pages into. My point if I need to have one is that Rothfuss managed jump off the cliff after one book where Martin managed to hang on quite a bit longer.

ninjoatse.cx
Apr 9, 2005

Fun Shoe

Cornwind Evil posted:

In all honesty, I think Martin was a victim of his own prejudice.

What made Song so amazing (for those who did like it) for the first three, beyond the world building, was the plot twists, a lot of which were built on taking the most common plot aspects of such worlds/stories and throwing them out, primarily plot armor. Unfortunately, seen as a whole, it really reads like a man who consumed so much fantasy with these stock plots and characters that he fell into the familiarity breeds contempt trap, and he wrote his books almost with an undertone of not only not following those plots, but spitefully throwing them in the reader's faces. The noble non liar? Oh, he gets his head cut off by the lunatic boy king and basically gets his whole family killed because not only does he not want to play games, he has no capacity to do so, and yet he entered such a place out of a sense of 'honor'. The young king breaks his promise and marries someone else? Oops, same bullshit games gets everyone in his party killed. Why'd he do that, oh his mother treated his supposed bastard half brother who the young king deeply cared for terribly, hence he likely had a subconscious fear to never father a bastard, hence when someone slept with him, he married her near immediately? And so on.

Except there's a REASON that classics are what they are, and tearing up everything and throwing it out the window might not lead to new and interesting roads, but rather, dead ends with you no longer able to move anywhere because all the usual hooks have been destroyed. It says a lot that the first three books came out within five years, the next two were considered much lower quality and came out over the space of twice that time, and there's been no book in that series for 12 years since. Between ripping all the 'usual' methods to bits and being unable to find a good replacement, Martin's in a pit where he feels his world is now just too vast and bloated to proceed forward, and he's given up. Basically, at this point, the best we're probably gonna get is a Duke Nukem Forever situation with someone else taking up the bloated mess of whatever he's done and paring it down into something resembling a conclusion just so IT IS DONE AND PUBLISHED.

It was never "he wrote himself into a hole", it was definitely the show. He revealed the major plot twists he'd intended, but they were poorly done, and now he has to either write himself towards those same conclusions or come up with something else. That and being filthy rich and experiencing all that has to offer in his elder years is probably way more of a high priority than writing a book.

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag
I think he’s just tired of writing the same poo poo for 30 years

Wendigee
Jul 19, 2004

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

Patrick Rothfuss

He claims the third and final book is coming out this year... But he also said that in 2021 lol

At least he does a lot of charity work and seems like a good bloke

I really enjoyed the first book and I think I've read it twice.. the second one I barely remember.

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER
I think his fingats are too fat for a regular keypad and he needs a special typing wand which takes at least ten times longer to use.

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag

Wendigee posted:

He claims the third and final book is coming out this year... But he also said that in 2021 lol

At least he does a lot of charity work and seems like a good bloke

Oh he’s been saying it longer than that. No matter, I shan’t be buying that garbage.

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag

kntfkr posted:

I think his fingats are too fat for a regular keypad and he needs a special typing wand which takes at least ten times longer to use.

Martin writes his books on a word processor from the 80’s lol

Zippy the Bummer
Dec 14, 2008

Silent Majority
The Don
LORD COMMANDER OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES
if an actual next book-in-the-series was released by grrm i'd read it out of curiosity. that won't happen though

thehandtruck
Mar 5, 2006

the thing about the jews is,

GABA ghoul posted:

I hope Brian Herbert writes the last two books. I really liked his Dune stuff. He did good with that

???? what

Nameless Pete
May 8, 2007

Get a load of those...



Who wore it better?

Treecko
Apr 23, 2008

The Official Demon Girl
Boss of 2022!
Some guy tried to hit on me once in like 09 asking if I wanted to watch the dragon guys TV show

Buddy I was at work no I'm not getting in the car with you, you ordered 3 large pizzas and don't have anyone to share them with?

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

Martin writes his books on a word processor from the 80’s lol

I use an Alpha Smart Neo2.

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER
He's from Bayonne. What do you expect?

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag

kntfkr posted:

I use an Alpha Smart Neo2.

I mean in all honesty it’s a funny bit of anachronism but I can’t write for poo poo regardless of equipment so if it works for him :shrug:

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

I mean in all honesty it’s a funny bit of anachronism but I can’t write for poo poo regardless of equipment so if it works for him :shrug:

If the internet is on a thing, I'm just gonna forums or porn on it. Word processors certainly serve a purpose. Before my family had a computer, we had a giant BROTHER word processor with a black and orange screen and I loved that thing.

bossy lady
Jul 9, 1983

A Song of rear end and Farting
By George R.R. Fartin

Vakal
May 11, 2008
I was so desperate for the next book that I broke down and started reading the Wildcards series.

I forced myself to finish the first one, then looked it up and found out there were 30 of the fuckers published and just said no.

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag

kntfkr posted:

If the internet is on a thing, I'm just gonna forums or porn on it. Word processors certainly serve a purpose. Before my family had a computer, we had a giant BROTHER word processor with a black and orange screen and I loved that thing.

Absolutely. I actually used to write a lot as a kid. I had an electronic typewriter when I was like 8 and then we got one of those giant WPs with the built in screen like you mentioned. It did italics and stuff but if you wanted to print you had to manually change the daisy wheel with all the letters every time the typeface changed. You could play Snake on it though.

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Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Treecko posted:

Some guy tried to hit on me once in like 09 asking if I wanted to watch the dragon guys TV show

Buddy I was at work no I'm not getting in the car with you, you ordered 3 large pizzas and don't have anyone to share them with?

Was it George Martin?

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