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.
And he’s going to spend every one of those years churning out three or four novels, too. Life just ain’t fair.
Aiyeeeeeeeee!
ARGH NO!
I just finished A Dance With Dragons and that is UNACCEPTABLE!
As much as it bugs me that he isn’t slaving away on the next book i think Neil Gaiman got it right.
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.
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
For all the good it did me I bought a copy on 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
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.