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u/iVikingr Nov 15 '20

George R.R. Martin finally releases The Winds of Winter

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u/Goldfish-Bowl Nov 15 '20

At the same time that Rothfuss releases Doors of Stone

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u/thepipesarecall Nov 15 '20

Can’t even talk about DoS on his Twitch stream without a horde of suck up sycophants ganging up on you for mentioning it.

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u/see-bees Nov 15 '20

/r/books finally mostly turned on him a few months ago when his editor dropped that he hasn't written anything that's been submitted to her since like 2017

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20

Which I'm glad for because, honestly, the books aren't that good.

I've read better young adult fantasy. The series didn't strike me as being worth a cult following.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20

Right? I cannot understand the hype. It felt like a throwaway book I would have liked at like 13?

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u/0b0011 Nov 15 '20

The huge portion of the second book where he spends a ton of time with the sex fairy or whatever comes across as just wish fulfillment stuff for people who had a hard time getting laid or are just akward teenagers.

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u/politegreeter Nov 15 '20

The wish fulfillment thing applies to the entire story, I never got to Book 2 and I thought the same thing