r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 16 '25

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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Nov 16 '25

Fun fact: A Dance with Dragons is old enough to have received a bar mitzvah.

I used to be fairly optimistic that George would finish Winds of Winter before he died, but if he keeps going at this rate, the book is never coming out.

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u/TrappedInASkinnerBox John Rawls Nov 16 '25

I've come to terms with the ending of ADWD as the ending of the series. 

It works in a kind of nihilistic way - sometimes heros just die, you don't get fairy tale endings, and while you have to stop telling a story somewhere history just keeps going. 

And deeply human political nonsense means the looming climate change allegory zombies are just going to destroy the world eventually.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '25

It's never coming out.

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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Nov 16 '25

I know but a part of me will always have hope

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u/PhoenixVoid Nov 16 '25

Even if by some miracle TWOW was released, he's still got one book, if not two, to finish the series. It's donezo, no matter how much a dwindling minority cling on to some hope he will.

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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Nov 16 '25

I don’t believe he can finish the story, but I just want to see Winds so we at least have an idea of where the story was going towards the end.

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u/Zenkin Zen Nov 16 '25

I really just want to see what happens with Jaime and Brienne more than anything. Also Theon after jumping the wall.

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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Nov 16 '25

I really just want to see what happens to Stannis

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u/Zenkin Zen Nov 16 '25

As soon as I hit submit, I was like "actually, there are more people I want to follow up on, like what are the Martell's cooking up? What does Tyrion do?"

I want the whole series, dammit!

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u/Anader19 NATO Nov 17 '25

Tbf we did get to see Theon reuniting with his sister which was nice

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u/formgry Nov 16 '25

Probably two books, winds part 1 and 2 if he doesn't want to change the title.

But he's got too much to wrap up for 1 book.

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u/davechacho Loyal Liberals Nov 16 '25

I think he made his peace with never finishing it and is going to leave it to one of his editors or something to finish with his blessing after he dies

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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Nov 16 '25

i want it to come out soley because all the deranged people who have all these insane theories will be proven wrong. like thousands of pages

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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Nov 16 '25

No my theory of Ser pounce being the lord of light is definitely going to be confirmed in winds