# When will you buy A Dance with Dragons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-you-buy-a-dance-with-dragons/588375 "2011-07-09T01:52:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-you-buy-a-dance-with-dragons/588375/61 "2011-07-13T18:18:14Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I would’ve said Piers Anthony, but he’ll be busy finishing Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastard series. Piers Anthony… Do you know what I’d give for G.R.R. Martin’s brain in Piers Anthony’s 76-year-old-but-disgustingly-healthy body? Even for a smidge of Anthony’s personal health discipline to take hold in Martin? Any idea? _sigh_ Piers Anthony is going to live to be 120 and George R.R. Martin is going to have a heart attack or stroke before he finishes the next book. The universe is a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-you-buy-a-dance-with-dragons/588375/62 "2011-07-13T19:09:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Piers Anthony is going to live to be 120 and George R.R. Martin is going to have a heart attack or stroke before he finishes the next book. The universe is a bitch. And he’s going to spend every one of those years churning out three or four novels, too. Life just ain’t fair. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-you-buy-a-dance-with-dragons/588375/63 "2011-07-13T20:22:14Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > He’s already claimed he is not even going to start the next book until sometime next year. Aiyeeeeeeeee! ---
**Author:** ![Feyrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/fbc32d/32.png) [@Feyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feyrat)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-you-buy-a-dance-with-dragons/588375/64 "2011-07-13T21:25:06Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > He’s already claimed he is not even going to start the next book until sometime next year. ARGH NO! I just finished A Dance With Dragons and that is UNACCEPTABLE! ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-you-buy-a-dance-with-dragons/588375/65 "2011-07-13T22:30:10Z")
As much as it bugs me that he isn’t slaving away on the next book i think Neil Gaiman got it [right.](http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html) ---
**Author:** ![Feyrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/fbc32d/32.png) [@Feyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feyrat)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-you-buy-a-dance-with-dragons/588375/66 "2011-07-13T22:33:24Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > As much as it bugs me that he isn’t slaving away on the next book i think Neil Gaiman got it [right.](http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html) Oh, of course he did. I’m 100% in agreement with Neil on that one. But still, selfishly, I want the next book RIGHT NOW. Mostly, I wanted to devour it so that I could safely go out on the internet once more. There’s too many people out there who think posting in an open forum threads with the title “Snape killed Dumbledore!” (in the TITLE, so you don’t have to click it to be wrecked) the day a book comes out is funny. Now I can re-read it at a more leisurely pace and enjoy the internet too. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-you-buy-a-dance-with-dragons/588375/67 "2011-07-14T00:52:34Z")
So I picked mine up yesterday, online from the KOBO software, something that Chapters puts out or something like that. About what I would pay for a paperback, so I am happy with the price. Regarding Neil Gaimans thoughts, I would one hundred percent agree. Not an author, but I can correlate what I do for a living and what pays the bills for that. . Declan ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-you-buy-a-dance-with-dragons/588375/68 "2011-07-14T00:56:12Z")
For all the good it did me I bought a copy on [audible.com](http://audible.com) when it became available on the 12th. Unfortunately for me my Zune died shortly after I started my latest trip and I didn’t bring my iPod touch with me this time. I might have to go in search of a Hastings tomorrow at lunch and buy the hard cover book and simply give up finishing listening to AFFC’s (I was on the last section when the Zune gave up the ghost). -XT ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-you-buy-a-dance-with-dragons/588375/69 "2011-07-14T03:23:50Z")
I agree with what Gaiman wrote, but that doesn’t make a many-years-long wait any easier. Just got my copy of DWD today from Amazon. Some other stuff to read first, but I hope not to be _too_ long picking it up again. Noticed that _The Once and Future King_ in the back-cover blurbs was italicized, but The Lord of the Rings was not. Hope this isn’t a harbinger of other editing goofs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-you-buy-a-dance-with-dragons/588375.md?page=3)