I picked up A Game of Thrones in summer 2002. A few weeks later, before I started reading it, Kushiel’s Dart caught my eye.
Still haven’t read A Game of Thrones, I got seriously derailed.
So, sorry y’all, but I’m squealing in glee that we’re going to get the Star-Crossed Lovers anthology before the next ASOIAF book.
There’s not enough [del]lemoncakes[/del] rage in this thread. It’s unsettling.
Well, I started out pissed off, but then the people who disagreed with me were mostly polite about it. Speaking of unsettling. 
I don’t get your beef here, other than perhaps the longer lag time in between books. I mean, the series had a perfectly valid ending in The Power That Preserves, and then three years later he reopened it with the second trilogy, which apparently was OK with you. (And the second trilogy was nowhere near as good as the first, IMHO.)
I remember going through the same thing you are now, only with the second Covenant trilogy: I discovered and devoured the original trilogy in 1981, then discovered The Wounded Land, then had to wait around while he wrote the second and third books.
And hey, at least Donaldson’s sticking to his schedule: the third book will be published in October.
Okay, uh…let’s just say I wasn’t old enough for Mr. Donaldson’s books until after the second series was complete. To be exact, I was 4 when White Gold Wielder was published. 
I first read them almost a decade after WGW was published, which is why from my POV it was “a finished series”.
I guess that chronology would kinda explain your view of things there. 
Has anybody noticed that Robert Jordan and GRRM, these kings of the unfinished fantasy cycles, were born less than a month apart? And isn’t there a term for sets of twins where one is delivered days or weeks later than the other? Separated at birth, I tell ya!
And new on his blog, he just saw Iron Man 2. Glad I know that now.
He also had to take a cold shower after watching auditions for Shae.
Write your book, you fat fucking pervert.
Funny, this is exactly what my wife said to me this morning when I took ten minutes off from working on my article. I’m neither fat nor a pervert, but comments like this are so motivating. I got right back to work!
Hey, people were complaining about the lack of ire.
Fat perverts, all of them.
The fat part is obvious but why is Martin supposedly a pervert?
He’s panting revoltingly over casting women.
No idea. In a quick search, the most authoritative source seems to be Stormfront.