and countless projects he is constantly working on and feel like he has forgotten the people that made any of his other success possible. <-------- That's the nice way to put it.
Him insisting on continuing to write ASoIaF is completely disrespectful to fans of his incomplete 'Thousand Worlds' short story sequence and FEVRE DREAM, the long-promised sequel to which is about 25 years overdue. What about the BLACK AND WHITE AND RED ALL OVER and AVALON novels that were interrupted by GAME OF THRONES in 1991? And he should also get his ass back to Hollywood and finish off some of those long-ago-promised TV projects. These are, after all, the projects that made his name and paid for his houses and lifestyle, and those of us who bought his earlier books and short stories have every right to tell him to drop this epic fantasy distraction and get back to his REAL writing. Probably.
By the way, ASoIaF did not become GRRM's primary source of income until about 2007, and even that is down to HBO finally buying the TV rights to the books rather than sales of the books by themselves.
I can't imagine Fevre Dream or Wild Cards or whatever was outselling aSoIaF, even before HBO bought the rights.
I was 21 when A Feast for Crows came out
- 10/12/2009 04:04:55 AM
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And The Eye of the World was published before I was born. Quit complaining. 
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- 10/12/2009 04:18:20 AM
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- 10/12/2009 04:18:20 AM
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If he decides today that he doesn't want to write another book in his life, then he has every right
- 10/12/2009 05:35:43 AM
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We've all heard Neil "You think he's God" Gaiman's stupid thoughts. Many of us disagree. *NM*
- 10/12/2009 03:55:17 PM
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Also, most of the fans complain more because we hear more about stupid knight figurines
- 11/12/2009 07:52:57 PM
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I agree completely.
- 11/12/2009 10:53:48 PM
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What was he making his money from before 2007?
- 15/12/2009 06:51:28 PM
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I wish Martin was still 21. Maybe he'd live to finish the series.
- 16/12/2009 04:44:27 AM
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Re: I wish Martin was still 21. Maybe he'd live to finish the series.
- 16/12/2009 04:45:09 AM
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Indeed, and you have a right to do so. But not everyone has seen them, and I still agree with him. *NM*
- 12/12/2009 06:58:14 PM
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And I will be 100000000004 years old when ADWD makes it to the printing press. *NM*
- 10/12/2009 11:05:44 AM
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I was 21 when ASoS came out.
- 11/12/2009 08:24:52 PM
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Of course, two books followed that one in the Wheel of Time.
- 13/12/2009 04:53:17 AM
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That's not what I meant.
- 13/12/2009 05:37:07 AM
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It just seems a particularly bizarre comparison as several books have been published since then.
- 13/12/2009 06:55:16 AM
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- 13/12/2009 06:55:16 AM
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But only one of them was any good. This leads into a core argument over writing speeds.
- 13/12/2009 06:55:59 PM
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It also hinges on the fact that his upcoming book will be fantastic.
- 13/12/2009 07:50:57 PM
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No, it doesn't. That will either justify or further condemn the wait.
- 13/12/2009 08:52:35 PM
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Poor choice of comparison...
- 13/12/2009 08:20:14 AM
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That's a very coloured view.
- 13/12/2009 06:47:16 PM
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I was 13 when Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist came out
- 14/12/2009 02:32:45 AM
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You'd kill for some Latro action figures though, would't you? 
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- 14/12/2009 05:30:46 PM
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- 14/12/2009 05:30:46 PM
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If Martin was 21, maybe he'd have enough time to finish the series. *NM*
- 16/12/2009 04:46:32 AM
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