Originally posted by EgosXII
will either be awesome or really really gay... books are awesome, there's no way it can match up to them, unless it goes for 1000 episodes, but hopefully it can work something cool out... :nervous:
I'm hopeful for awesome. The books are amazing. I'm currently re-reading them, in preparation of the fifth book coming out this summer. So dark and twisted, with plot twists that are actually not something you'd expect. Brilliant.
I think it will be good. HBO has a pretty good track record. Any other network than HBO, save Showtime, would have me extremely worried, but I'm looking forward to this.
EgosXII
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Originally posted by Lews
I'm hopeful for awesome. The books are amazing. I'm currently re-reading them, in preparation of the fifth book coming out this summer. So dark and twisted, with plot twists that are actually not something you'd expect. Brilliant.
I think it will be good. HBO has a pretty good track record. Any other network than HBO, save Showtime, would have me extremely worried, but I'm looking forward to this.
true on all counts! I'll definitely be watching it either way :p
Moongoose
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Originally posted by EgosXII ]
will either be awesome or really really gay... books are awesome, there's no way it can match up to them, unless it goes for 1000 episodes, but hopefully it can work something cool out... :nervous:
Even the trailers are full of awesome!
The kings landing looks awesome!
And my favourite character from the books.
pkcRAISTLIN
yeah i always liked arya the most.
cant wait for this, i never made it all the way through the books so am glad i can take the lazy way out and find out what happens.
EgosXII
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
yeah i always liked arya the most.
cant wait for this, i never made it all the way through the books so am glad i can take the lazy way out and find out what happens.
I always liked Tyrion, that awesome, evil midget! :D
i stopped after book 3... was reading it just after book 3 came out, and there was an insane gap between 3 and 4... cbf re-reading them all to get upto date enough to get into 4 sadly :(
the first 3 still represent some of the best fantasy ever written, and I still routinely recomend it to people. So awesome :D
why didn't the dick just release it as 2 books, thus saving readers the time waiting, and the effort in trying to read something that big...
jesus
Moongoose
Well, the thing is he did...book 4 and book 5 were originally intended to be 1 book :)
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After A Storm of Swords was completed in 2000, Martin began writing A Dance with Dragons, the intended fourth volume which would pick up the story five years after the previous volume. Martin found it difficult to make this work without an over-reliance on flashbacks. At the World Science Fiction Convention in Philadelphia on 1 September 2001, Martin announced that he was scrapping more than a year's work and writing a different fourth book that would fill in the gap, named A Feast for Crows. He found it extremely difficult to go back and start again, especially as this novel was not planned for in his scheme for the series, and work on the book progressed slowly.
By May 2005, A Feast for Crows had become longer than A Storm of Swords (the manuscript for which had been 1521 pages) and Martin's publishers said they could not publish the book in one volume. They suggested splitting the book in two and releasing the volumes as A Feast for Crows, Volume I and A Feast for Crows, Volume II, but Martin was unhappy with this idea. After discussing the matter with his publishers and his friend and fellow writer Daniel Abraham, Martin decided to split the book by character and location instead. The published A Feast for Crows thus contained all of the characters in the South of the Seven Kingdoms, while the forthcoming A Dance with Dragons will contain the characters in the North, the Free Cities and in Slaver's Bay.
In a May 2005 statement, the author also said that this move now meant that the series would require seven volumes. Martin recognized that this decision could cause frustration among some of his fans. He wrote: "I know some of you may be disappointed, especially when you buy A Feast for Crows and discover that your favorite character does not appear, but given the realities I think this was the best solution... and the more I look at it, the more convinced I am that these two parallel novels, when taken together, will actually tell the story better than one big book."[16]
These problems aside, A Feast for Crows was released in October 2005 and immediately won largely positive reviews. Time dubbed Martin "the American Tolkien",[25] and the novel went straight to the top of the New York Times bestseller list.
Despite initial hopes of A Dance with Dragons being published quickly after A Feast for Crows, the writing and revision process for this fifth novel proved more difficult than anticipated. On January 1, 2008, Martin published an update on his website saying he hoped to have the book published in the autumn of 2008, but that it was only a hope.[26] After almost 6 years, which had caused some fans to wonder if Martin had lost interest in writing A Song of Ice and Fire, it was announced [27] that A Dance with Dragons will be released July 12, 2011. The book length will be similar to A Storm of Swords. During the long writing period, Martin insisted that he would not be bullied and works at his own pace, on this and several other projects, to make sure they come out as good as he can possibly make them.
So basically the book that we are waiting on for the last 5 years was alredy partialy completed, he was just adding stuff to it during that time, thus another book large enough to kill with. If he were to split this one as well i dont think he would survive the fan outrage :) Anyway, Im just happy that Arya will be in the next book as well :)
Lews
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Originally posted by Moongoose
Well, the thing is he did...book 4 and book 5 were originally intended to be 1 book :)
So basically the book that we are waiting on for the last 5 years was alredy partialy completed, he was just adding stuff to it during that time, thus another book large enough to kill with. If he were to split this one as well i dont think he would survive the fan outrage :) Anyway, Im just happy that Arya will be in the next book as well :)
I know. I was really happy with AFFC, but I wanted to know what was happening with Arya (and Daenerys). She's one of my favorite characters (along with Daenerys, Tyrion, Bronn, Thoros, and many others :p), and I'm fascinated by The Faceless Men. Definitely looking forward to this book. Damn him for being a perfectionist, though.
shaw
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It's no secret; the whole fleet knows this man tried to stab me through the neck. And you missed! Butterfingers!
ing LOLd. :stongue:
LeopoldStotch
i'm giving this a chance. i will give a good answer about this show after the first 5 episodes most likely.
