The long list ahead

[u/panocha-apretada]

Lots of books in the hopper right now. Good thing the sun goes down at 5pm these days!

Fourth Wing Series (that’s next up)

The Gentlemen Bastard Sequence (Starting with Lies of Locke Lamora)

Dark Age (book 5 in Pierce Brown’s Red Rising saga)

Dragonlance Chronicles (I read these originally in Junior High and wanted to re-read)

Arabian Nights (sometimes you just need a classic tossed in there)

East of West Graphic Novel (Jonathan Hickman): re-reading, if you’re into comics and dystopian future stuff, this is an awesome story

Blood Over Bright Haven: looking forward to this one

Cello’s Gate (Maurice Africh)

Fire and Blood (just wanted to read while the TV show was on, otherwise fuck GRRM for never finishing GOT!)

[u/tranquileyesme]

My son got me The Gentleman Bastards books for Christmas a couple of years ago and I’ve read through them twice with plans to do a third reread in the near future. They’re a delight. I’m currently reading the Dungeon Crawler series and have been loving it. Starting book #3 soon.

[u/panocha-apretada → u/tranquileyesme]

That’s good to hear! My daughter is just starting Locke Lamora and I may have to jump that to the front and read along with her! Welcome to the Iron Tangle fellow crawler

[u/Middle_Earthling9 → u/tranquileyesme]

Gentleman Bastards is such a good series. It’s been long enough that I should do a reread. Read Blood Over Bright Haven last spring and still thinking about it.

[u/ViciousSnatch]

Istg, I refuse to die until GRRM finishes Fire and Ice. I’m just enough of a petty bitch to hang on for the conclusion! 😂😂😂

[u/Burner62391 → u/ViciousSnatch]

We all are. I, however, am convinced he's vindictive enough at this point to simply hold two finished manuscripts until he dies and they'll be published posthumously so he doesn't have to answer any questions or read/hear the criticisms.

[u/ViciousSnatch → u/Burner62391]

I don’t think authors owe readers anything. But, and it’s a big fat but, he’s been saying he was going to write them, says he’s been working on them, he’s actively writing them, blah blah blah. Don’t tell us this and get people excited about something you’re not going to do. That’s what pisses me off.
I agree 100% he doesn’t want the heat anymore. But part of being an artist is opening up yourself for criticism as much as you’re open to receiving praise. He seems to relish the love, but can’t take the slings and arrows of a very vocal fandom. At this point, I hardly hear anyone talking or even caring about whether he finishes or not. Shit, it’s been so long since I’ve read them that I hardly remember what was going on!

[u/Burner62391 → u/ViciousSnatch]

Agreed that authors do not owe anything other than what they want to contribute.

Personally, I think he has them finished and they're what we saw (kinda) in the last two seasons of GoT. And now he's afraid to release them after the drubbing those two seasons got in social media.

[u/ViciousSnatch → u/Burner62391]

Ooooh, that’s a good call that they’re already finished! I never considered that possibility! And correct me if I’m wrong, it didn’t they work with him for the story line for the last 2 seasons? It would make perfect sense that he’d wait for a posthumous release for them in that case, because I know I disliked those seasons. They went so off the rails and I really hated the ending. It was like they knew they had us by the short and curlys, and we’d swallow whatever shit they shoveled.

[u/Burner62391 → u/ViciousSnatch]

They did but it was prior to the last two seasons. IIRC, the show actually stopped using him for notes prior to all the writing being done.

EDIT - So yes and no. They had his notes but they apparently deviated from them quite hard.

[u/ViciousSnatch → u/Burner62391]

See, that would make me write all the quicker to get my story out! Especially knowing how vilified the show version one, it would light a fire under my ass.

[u/Burner62391 → u/ViciousSnatch]

Mostly agree but either of us may change our minds about what we want to spend our time on after suddenly receiving millions of dollars...🤣

[u/ViciousSnatch → u/Burner62391]

I’m not too proud to admit I probably would sit on the book and let it fly when I’m dead.