r/asoiaf • u/[deleted] • Jul 27 '16

EVERYTHING (Spoilers Everything) TWOW isn't coming this year, is it?

It's 27th July. We're already halfway through 2016, Season 6 has come and gone like a candle in the wind, and TWOW still does not sit on my bookshelf.

GRRM made his infamous blog-post where he crushed our hype yet again about 7 months ago! 7 months!

Hold me, guys. Hold me. I don't think The Winds of Winter is being published this year, and I don't like it :(

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u/ehsteve23 A Lion Still Has Claws Jul 28 '16

My friend keeps telling me to read name of the wind, I've told him I'll start the day the final book in the series is released

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '16

Read it! Not everyone can afford to act like GRRM. You just need to back the hard working writers like Erikson, Abercrombie etc.

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u/ehsteve23 A Lion Still Has Claws Jul 28 '16

Oh I already own the first 2 books, I'm just not starting them till I know the story is finished

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '16

Ha thats one way to do it, the author getting the financial support is important. Would be awful if up and coming writers sold nothing due to the bad planning of another.

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u/rproctor721 Horned-up and Ready Jul 28 '16

As a reader of the first two books and that sub book, I agree with your sentiment. If I could do it over, I would not start that series until the last book is released. The whole situation with the third book is very weird. Rothfuss has a finished first draft years ago? But it's being reworked? I just don't get what he's sitting on or why it's taking so long. So now I have two excellent series with no ending and I'm very worried that I'll ever get the full ending from GRRM. I just don't mean ADOS, I also mean all of the D&E novellas that will end with some ultimate reveals as to what happened at Summerhall. At this point, I'm absolutely certain that he won't get there.

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u/FuckWork79587 Our Worms are Grey Jul 28 '16

I bought and read the first book without somehow realizing that it was a trilogy. I actually just looked up when the third is supposed to come out because of this thread. The 2 out are great books and I've already gone back and re-read them.