I have avoided pretty much everything about GRRM and the series, because I don't want spoilers. But if isn't spoilery and you have a link, I'd be glad to read it.
As for your comment: yeah, this is the thing I feel has gotten lost in the brouhaha over the (admittedly inexcusable) way some fans have treated Martin. No, he isn't our bitch; but he made us a promise -- not just the explicit one at the end of A Feast for Crows, but an implicit promise that he was going to tell us this story -- and when he starts falling down on it, I don't think it's fair to tell his fans they just need to suck it up and be grateful for what they get. Five years' wait for an unsatisfactory book, and then six more years' wait for the next (apparently also unsatisfactory) book that was supposed to be "almost done" five years ago, is enough to make anybody justifiably cranky.
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Date: 2011-07-19 04:31 am (UTC)As for your comment: yeah, this is the thing I feel has gotten lost in the brouhaha over the (admittedly inexcusable) way some fans have treated Martin. No, he isn't our bitch; but he made us a promise -- not just the explicit one at the end of A Feast for Crows, but an implicit promise that he was going to tell us this story -- and when he starts falling down on it, I don't think it's fair to tell his fans they just need to suck it up and be grateful for what they get. Five years' wait for an unsatisfactory book, and then six more years' wait for the next (apparently also unsatisfactory) book that was supposed to be "almost done" five years ago, is enough to make anybody justifiably cranky.