I enjoyed this.
“What do you mean he died!”
I’ve actually have never seen any of the Game of Thrones show, but I’ve read all the books. Allegedly, the author is going to write more and conclude the story.
Maybe it’s not my place to criticize, but I’ve been writing novels in my spare time when not doing my full time job, blogging, writing columns, and being a husband and father, and somehow I can complete novels quicker than George R. R. Martin. I just don’t get how it can be your full time job and take years and years to write that much. Maybe he needs to get rid of one of the R’s in his name as having two of them just weighs him down.
I think he’s too busy being an incompetant liberal hack to do any writing.
Yeah, that was pretty much my reaction.
Season 2 was worse, because I couldn’t remember who all those people were.
Thank God there’s a dwarf in the story, or I’d have been completely lost.
The two R’s didn’t seem to impede Tolkien’s ability to produce novels.
@3 – True, but he used only a first initial not an entire name.
Gotta dump the baggage…
Actually, George R. R. Martin has probab;y been a lot more prolific over his career than Tolkien. Toliken was never a full-time writer and he approached it as more of a hobby. The fact that it took so long for LotR make it big, meant there was lot less demand for him to put out product as it were, While he lived, there huge gaps between published works as he liked to fiddle with things like his invented languages. (I’d love to see the reaction of a published from the ’40s or ’50s as you tried to convince them that there would one day there would be a market for primers for languages only spoken in fictional fantasy worlds.)
The Silmarillion only was published posthumously, and was the first work edited by Christopher Tolkien, who sometime later realized the goldmine in materials that Toliken had largely written to amuse himself and his fellow Inklings.
As to George R. R. Martin’s late torpor, perhaps part is due to vagaries of health. Considering the series has run on shock value, perhaps Martin has eaten his seed corn once too often by killing off a character he shouldn’t have. He once joked that we would kiil everyone in the pentultimate book, and the last book would just be descriptions of sceney. Perhaps that’s closer than the truth than Mr. Martin would like.