Active Users:1225 Time:23/11/2024 07:01:11 AM
Back to Messageboard Post New Thread Search Help Stats Rules
I'm pretty much in the same camp as you and Tom. everynametaken Send a noteboard - 22/09/2010 06:17:53 AM
He made a commitment to write the books, so he damned well needs to write the books. I know his defenders are always saying shit like, "but he's given us these wonderful books, he doesn't owe us anything." To which I say: bullshit. To use an old phrase, you dance with the one who brung you. Your fans made you, dude. You can write until your fingers bleed, but without readers, you're nothing. I bought his books and he made a commitment to finish them by choosing to write them as he did. And, by his own statements. Finish the damned books, man. If you die and don't finish them because you're a jerk, then you won't be remembered as some great author. You'll be remembered as a hack who couldn't finish what he started.


I've never slammed the guy in the past but I am about fed up. I also don't like his defender's who say he doesn't owe us anything. He is an author, that is his job. If he doesn't want to write the books then fine but I have every right on our relationship to not buy any of his other books. It's just business. I'm now annoyed with him.
But hey, if he wants to piss off thousands and thousands of fans and lose millions of dollars because he is whatever (lazy, a perfectionist, has writer's block, etc.) then that is on him.
And if I feel like this then I imagine others who have waited patiently and held back from bagging on the guy are starting to feel the same way. Not a good thing for him and his job.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Reply to message
Because George R.R. Martin does everything but write these days... Tom - 22/09/2010 04:15:04 AM 1909 Views
I don't hate him. But, like you, I'm fed up with him. LiterateDog - 22/09/2010 04:47:31 AM 942 Views
I'm pretty much in the same camp as you and Tom. everynametaken - 22/09/2010 06:17:53 AM 1036 Views
I'm beginning to agree. Ghavrel - 22/09/2010 09:55:07 AM 925 Views
I do like Neil Gaiman's writing, though. *NM* Ghavrel - 22/09/2010 10:01:24 AM 402 Views
I can forgive you. *NM* Tom - 22/09/2010 02:08:46 PM 439 Views
Not only is he a writer, but he has really only one successful series. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:40:30 AM 859 Views
Far more people watched B&B than have read ASoIaF. Werthead - 23/09/2010 07:01:22 PM 1027 Views
good point *NM* aragornital - 22/09/2010 08:07:16 AM 500 Views
Wait a minute... Larry - 22/09/2010 11:33:37 PM 988 Views
I said I'm "growing" to hate him. I'm not ready to pay for his death yet. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:37:53 AM 879 Views
bahahahahahahahahaha temeraire - 22/09/2010 06:10:26 AM 963 Views
I was in an odd mood last night Tom - 23/09/2010 03:36:46 AM 808 Views
Hahaha Darth_Katie - 22/09/2010 01:24:17 PM 942 Views
I'm not sure I'd be dictating chapters from my deathbed Tom - 23/09/2010 03:35:43 AM 830 Views
I was thinking the same things a couple days ago Fox and Ravens - 22/09/2010 02:22:49 PM 1068 Views
I'm not sure Brandon Sanderson could finish the series, either. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:33:52 AM 860 Views
Sadly, I would be satisfied with this. StormCrow - 23/09/2010 03:01:04 PM 960 Views
If I was an author I wouldn't defend him. Tigr - 22/09/2010 03:35:17 PM 940 Views
I agree but emphatically endorse use of the subjunctive "were". Tom - 23/09/2010 03:31:25 AM 807 Views
If I were to be grammatically correct, the world would stop spinning. *NM* Tigr - 23/09/2010 02:27:00 PM 435 Views
Martin is not the only one... ajah - 02/10/2010 08:16:51 AM 909 Views
If he had only ever written stand-alone books... Gher - 22/09/2010 03:42:48 PM 913 Views
There is more than an expectation. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:30:32 AM 918 Views
I stopped caring so long ago I don't even remember much of what it's about. *NM* Macharius - 22/09/2010 04:21:52 PM 404 Views
Wolves and incest and a big wall of ice with barrow-wights on the other side. *NM* Tom - 23/09/2010 03:36:19 AM 402 Views
You know whenever the new book is ever released, it'll sell even more copies due to the wait, right? Larry - 22/09/2010 11:06:37 PM 966 Views
Bisson was already working on it when Miller died, IIRC Werthead - 22/09/2010 11:17:50 PM 940 Views
Close enough Larry - 22/09/2010 11:26:51 PM 981 Views
There's a huge difference between Song of Ice and Fire and Miller's Leibowitz. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:28:31 AM 857 Views
I know - I was just thinking about wait times for stories Larry - 23/09/2010 03:40:09 AM 796 Views
Not neccessarily. There are plenty of series that I started but didn't finish because I lost Tashmere - 24/09/2010 12:58:10 AM 795 Views
Don't mistake yourself for the average consumer Larry - 24/09/2010 04:03:57 AM 1048 Views
Re: Don't mistake yourself for the average consumer Werthead - 24/09/2010 08:55:29 AM 959 Views
which is why I always rant - why review a book on your blog, but not Amazon? Aeryn - 25/09/2010 03:36:45 PM 891 Views
That's why I always do. Werthead - 25/09/2010 04:51:49 PM 796 Views
Re: Mostly, because I don't buy from Amazon. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 26/09/2010 12:09:03 AM 419 Views
I don't plan to read it. nossy - 26/09/2010 03:28:02 PM 1061 Views
As I said in a previous response... Larry - 26/09/2010 11:15:13 PM 839 Views
I only recently started reading the books fistofpainx - 23/09/2010 04:17:14 AM 868 Views
Re: I only recently started reading the books Fox and Ravens - 23/09/2010 03:36:17 PM 845 Views
Where's your evidence that Neil Gaiman thinks he's God? Tim - 23/09/2010 01:31:03 PM 896 Views
Re: Nothing wrong with him if does have a high opinion of himself. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 26/09/2010 12:11:06 AM 367 Views
I'm always amused by these threads. Variant - 24/09/2010 08:22:54 AM 883 Views
Re: I'm always amused by these threads. Fox and Ravens - 24/09/2010 02:42:27 PM 974 Views
Truly, there's really no reason that you can't be both angry at him and planning to buy the book. Kotagg - 25/09/2010 12:46:03 AM 848 Views
I never said it was hypocritical, just saying it's amusing. *NM* Variant - 25/09/2010 11:06:42 AM 407 Views
So y'all just bitching? Variant - 25/09/2010 10:31:23 AM 892 Views
Re: I'm always amused by these threads. Werthead - 25/09/2010 05:04:56 PM 810 Views
Re: This is funny beyond the telling. Danae al'Thor - 26/09/2010 12:07:40 AM 854 Views
Re: Because George R.R. Martin does everything but write these days... Mossman - 02/10/2010 02:57:29 AM 791 Views
Here's the thing... ajah - 02/10/2010 08:23:14 AM 1194 Views
Back to Messageboard Post New Thread Search Help Stats Rules

Reply to Message

Block Quote Paragraph Quote
Formatting
Smiley Codes