Oh, come on, King Robert should really be played by BRIAN BLESSED. And I had Christopher Lee as Eddard Stark in my head. Theon Greyjoy is spot on, though.
If only there was a chance that the next book would be out by the time the series catches up to it.
For all of the fact that I found the early books to be great and the later books to be less of a drop-off in quality than is typical of other series, there has been a i've-forgotten-how-many-years wait for a book that the author had stated was finished and ready to publish six months after the last one hit the streets.
I'm not one of the wackos who thinks he owes me anything whatsoever, but lying to paying customers is dumb business.
I believe it's been a 5 year wait for Book 4, and between books 3 and 4 there was a 4 year wait. I really wouldn't have cared if not for his initial note when Feast For Crows came out that the book that had been planned was just too big, so they were splitting the printing and the second half would be out in November of that year.
Zzzzz. The first book was overwrought with soap opera bollocks that went on forever. Other than the bastard and the dwarf, everyone else was so uninteresting that they deserved to die (and while it seems that GRRM makes that happen in the rest of the series, it's hardly worth my time to find out).
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Date: 2010-02-23 09:11 pm (UTC)"I have seen the truth -- It's a cast list!"
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Date: 2010-02-24 05:12 am (UTC)For all of the fact that I found the early books to be great and the later books to be less of a drop-off in quality than is typical of other series, there has been a i've-forgotten-how-many-years wait for a book that the author had stated was finished and ready to publish six months after the last one hit the streets.
I'm not one of the wackos who thinks he owes me anything whatsoever, but lying to paying customers is dumb business.
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Date: 2010-02-24 05:19 am (UTC)Apparently it's a REALLY long year :)
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Date: 2010-02-25 12:54 am (UTC)Although who's playing Khal Drogo - aha!
Jason Momoa!
Dammit, must get cable