Comments | grrrm: Fat, Drunk and Stupid is No Way to Write a Novel

grrrm

Fat, Drunk and Stupid is No Way to Write a Novel

Oct 02, 2008 16:05

It seems that a little post about a large man has gone a long way and it's only been a week. Sorry I have not participated in the live journal sooner, but I had to work. That's right, work. Something our 'friend' George R.R. Martin seems to have forgotten about. I'm not asking the guy to plug 10 hour shifts just to finish Dance, but its ( Read more... )

asoiaf, george r.r. martin, adwd, dance with dragons, song of ice and fire

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anonymous October 3 2008, 13:25:47 UTC

I've given up all hope for this series. The last book was crap, no where near the level of the first three, so we have an eight year period of no quality work produced by this author.

I've gotten closure in my mind though. After ASOS the Horn was sounded, the wall fell and the Others invaded Westoros killing pretty much everyone, but especially Brienne.

Oh and Dany was eaten by her dragons.

anonymous October 3 2008, 14:10:51 UTC

"but its been what 2 years since A Feast of Crows? If I am not mistaken, I believe it took over 4 years between Storm of Swords and Feast."

Actually 3 years since Feast and 5 years between Storm and Feast.

But who's counting, right?

It's ridiculous by anyone's standards, and particularly frustrating for fans like myself who got hooked on the series back in 1996. Martin is not young, and by the looks of his photos, is not going to win any fitness contests, either.

Our odds of seeing the end of this magnum opus are less than seeing a solution in the Middle East in our lifetimes.

It's a damned shame.

anonymous October 3 2008, 21:30:47 UTC

He has obviously lost any will or ability to write ASOIAF up to the standards of the first three books, so he keeps churning out his other crap so he looks like he is doing something.
Everybody wants to compare what happened with Robert Jordan to this. However, Jordan was writing more shit on his deathbed and Knife of Dreams came out around the same time as Feast. He got more done dying, than GRRM gets done, well dying (just more slowly from the looks of him). A sharp contrast is Brandon Sanderson who has been chosen to complete WOT. He has taken over a project that was not even his own and in less than a year read all the previous 12 books, read all of the authors notes, and written 2/3 of the final book with an expected end date of December. Why? Because that is when he was given as a deadline. GRRM had Amazon posting this thing was going to be released by Sept. 30, then he didn't have the manuscript done by then. Pathetic.

Not a good series for one reason anonymous October 14 2008, 16:04:16 UTC

I'm sick of martin being compared to some of the greatest fiction writers. A great writer has a story with a beginning, a middle and an end! This is pretty much literature 101. George will never complete this series and will go down as another Jordan. To be a truly great author a story should have a complete climax and often this is the most difficult element. Now whether george rr martin will be remembered as a great author will depend on if he ever completes this piece of work. If not he will just become another footnote to a story that had potential; or completed by a different author after his death leaving an empty feeling from his fans if it really encompassed the authors true ending. If I was someone interested in becoming involved in a new series I would definitely shy away from martin until he shows some commitment to actually complete the series.