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For anyone wanting to vent on the GRRM/aSoIaf subject, visit - , a humourous blog dedicated to the poking fun at Martin, where those unimpressed by the way he's treated his fans can all find a sympathetic voice.
Well, if you mean 'find a sympathetic voice' by encouraging trolling attacks on other websites and blogs, making personal attacks on other fans and feeding deliberate misinformation and lies to fans, than yes, they do an excellent job of that
Luckily, most people don't buy it.
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As I alighted to previously, I personally can't agree with the way GRRM is behaving - constantly hawking ridiculous memorabilia, water logged copies of books that never sold that well at prices far above those online,
This is a pretty valid complaint, however, especially since GRRM isn't exactly poor these days.
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using the popularity he gained from the first 3 aSoIaF books to sell anthologies and other stuff he edits
This is a bit odd though, since he was able to publish the first 3 ASoIaF books thanks to the popularity he had gained from editing anthologies and other stuff in the 1980s. That seems turnabout and fair play, personally.
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It's like he's loving the popularity and adulation, but can't be bothered to do the work that will keep in going. It smacks of hypocrisy and makes a lot of people quite upset.
Well, ignorant people, sure. People who've actually followed the development of the book as it has gone along will have seen how much work was being poured into the book and what the process/progress has been.
But if you get all your information from troll sites like the one posted above, than yes, I can understand why readers may not have a good impression of GRRM since going by their misinformation he spends all his time watching football and then going to write non-ASoIaF material (which I would love to read one day, as I keep hearing so much about it, but no-one seems able to actually elucidate what this material actually is). But that isn't exactly the author's fault, is it?
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It's been over 10 years since A Song of Swords was published and in that time Erikson's delivered 8 full Malazan novels, Bakker 5 novels, etc, etc.
This is true, and MALAZAN at least is as stucturally complex, if not moreso, as AFFC/ADWD. However, Erikson has overcome those issues by simply ignoring them, resulting in a broken timeline and continuity that doesn't make much sense. The toing and froing between characters and continents does mean this is all fudgeable to some extent, however. The same solution to ASoIaF would result in a much more obviously flawed storyline.
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AFFC really put a lot of things into question re: taking longer = better book, art can't e rushed, etc especially in the context that the other books never take anywhere near as long.
AFFC is the weakest book in the series, certainly, and it arrived at the end of the longest wait in the series. However, AGoT and ACoK both took longer to
write, which does put the above analysis in some doubt. ADWD is more or less at the point of becoming the longest book in the series to write, so if it sucks as well, there may be more to this argument.
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Now that ADWD has taken equally as long, and the fact that he promised it would be delivered shortly after AFFC,
Promise? There was a 'hope' it would be delivered shortly after AFFC, but never a promise. However, sticking it in the back of the book itself did make it appear to be a promise signed in blood even if it never was, so fair enough.