So I've been meaning to write my own big long post on this topic, but I'm holding off until I finish the first season of the HBO series (which, if my current schedule holds, should happen a week from today). Meanwhile, though, I've been busy mulling over Sady Doyle's recent takedown of the series in Tiger Beatdown. It's been frustrating to me, ( Read more... )

I finished A Dance with Dragons. Here are some thoughts, at varying levels of coherence, in no particular order.

( Can't do this without massive spoilers. Proceed with caution! )

I am at a bookstore. There is a book. I held it in my hands, and gave the nice bookseller a credit card, and they let me walk away with it in my bag. It is real. And I'm only typing at you all instead of reading it right now because I have to go back to work soon and I'm afraid I might not be able to stop ( Read more... )

I finished my re-read of A Feast for Crows last night, and I'll have more to say later, but what caught my eye was the author's note.

In which GRRM promised to have A Dance with Dragons out within a year.

Ha ha ha ha. Ha. Ha. Ha?

Sigh.

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Because hope springs eternal, I decided it was high time to reread A Song of Ice and Fire, and I finished A Game of Thrones today.

It's a very different experience when you know what's coming. ( Spoilers for all four currently published books. )

So I finally got around to checking LJ this evening, only to discover that George R.R. Martin has posted this.

But then... that means.... It can't be. It can't mean that the book is done. Can it? CAN IT???!!!!!

Must not get my hopes up must not get my hopes up must not get my hopes up oh damn too late.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've heard this before. A "firm" publication date for A Dance with Dragons? Surrrrrre. I won't believe it. I can't believe it. I've had my heart broken too many times.

But I'm clearing my calendar for July 12 just in case. omg.

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I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that GRRM has now gotten involved in this lastest fanfic discussion, since he's voiced loud opposition to fanfiction in the past, and Diana Gabaldon was published in the last collection he edited. (Which, possibly ironically, is the book I'm reading right now. Just for the cherry on the "authors who are connected ( Read more... )

Here's a credible rumor that Sean Bean is cast as Eddard Stark for the HBO Pilot of A Game of Thrones. This is kind of exciting, although part of me also feels bad for him. ;) From Boromir to Ned Stark?

Still, with Peter Dinklage confirmed as Tyrion Lannister, this is looking like it could actually be quite good. Let's hope it actually happens, ( Read more... )

I've probably done this before, but not in awhile, and I'm feeling like a distraction. So...

Post one of my fandoms and the number of any of these questions (as many or few as you like) and I'll tell you the answer!Note #1: "All" is absolutely an option ( Read more... )