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http://www.parentherald.com/articles/17911/20160128/the-winds-of-winter-release-date-update-george-rr-martin-book-nowhere-near-finished.htm
Hello everyone, I am a lazy fatass fuck. It takes me 7 fucking years to write a penny-dreadful, film-script based "novel". And it doesn't matter that it's my full time fucking job, literally the only thing I'm required to do, or that I jack off at 67 years of age by taking bum fuck vacations all over the world to live off the prestige of my now stagnate series that I can't fucking finish, that I'm constantly giving interviews and bullshit for the industry, and that I'm writing OTHER books that literally no one gives a fuck about. That's right, I'm not writing for the series that is the sole reason for all my fame and which everyone wants, no, I write other books that are truly shit and no one gives a fuck about. And when those that gave me all this money call me out on this shit, the best I can do is twiddle my fat fingers, flip them off and then whine on my blog about how ashamed I am of being a lazy fatass fuck. Oh, did I mention that I waste time playing videogames? I have all this responsibility, I'm 67 fucking years old and I waste time playing videogames, because that's really going to get the job done and get all these people off my back. Did I mention I'm a lazy fatass fuck?
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No.14321
>>14136
>huh?
It's a meme about how public figures who attack Trump end up losing their careers or dying or some other nasty shit. Usually just a case of self-fulfilling prophecies, self-selection bias and the public figures in question being old, drugged up and diseased people likely to have died at any time. Yet add dubs to it and it's magic
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No.14324
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No.14326
>>14313
Not even Slytherin and Dumbledore's combined efforts can detract from the fact that Harry Potter is one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.
Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
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No.14341
>>14326
The simple genius of Harry Potter is rather alike a child friendly version of Y/A novels and their film adaptations today: An ordinary child is taken from the mundane and shit reality of their life and told everything is different now, they are special.
"Yer a wizard arry."
It perhaps explains why there is such fixation today on relating all current events to Dumbledore's army, the Mockingjay or the Resistance. They are all united in the common theme of taking ordinary people and granting them unwarranted importance, placing them against villains who are simply - and clearly, villains, who can be destroyed without any crisis of moral conscience.
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No.14356
>>14341
It was /tv/ pasta, but I agree with it. I watched one or two of the movies and don't even remember which.
These conflicts tell what everyone wants to achieve but not how, or, when something works, why it does. Does the good guy win because he's experienced, because he's kind, by happenstance? It's hard to follow these stories.
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No.14357
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No.14648
any update on this worthless fat fuck?!?
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No.14663
If I'm into a game like Skyrim, Legend of Zelda etc, what woudl be their fiction book equivalents?
No Game of Thrones. I ain't supporting that degenerate trash with my money.
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No.14675
>>14663
Lord of the Rings.
Considering your post this is easily the best option for you.
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No.14774
>>8458
And yet he's still more productive than you.
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No.14847
>>14663
>fiction equivalents
Viking sagas. Volsuung etc
The Iliad
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No.14878
Cannot believe /lit/ is SO slow that this thread has been alive almost three years.
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No.14906
>>14878
Still faster than GRRM himself.
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No.15015
>>11095
I dont get the point of that shitty article. "Tolkien was never an actual writer because Divine Comedy and Wizard of Oz are better"
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No.15059
My name is GRRM, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are fat, retarded, no-lifes who spend every second of their day writing stupid ass words. You are everything bad in the world. Honestly, have any of you ever gotten any prizes? I mean, I guess it’s fun making fun of people because of your own insecurities, but you all take to a whole new level. This is even worse than watching my series.
Don’t be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I’m pretty much perfect. I won the laziness championship, and was runner-up at pretending to be busy. What do you pretend to do, other than “actually write things”? I also get straight 5 stars’s, and have a banging hot girlfriend (She was just found squatting in the grass; Shit was SO cash). You are all faggots who should just kill yourselves. Thanks for listening.
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No.15112
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No.15128
>>15059
That's one ugly motherfucker Dude on the right looks cool though
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No.15141
pull the fucking typewriter out of your ass and start fucking typing
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No.15153
Thready reminder. That this guy is a hack and he stole every thing from appendix N.
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No.15174
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
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No.15257
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No.15264
>tfw I only come to /lit/ for this thread
>>14305 >>14306 >>14307 >>14308
>post two legit posts
>"flooding" screams 8ch
>dude posts four of the exact same
>that's okay, go ahead
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No.15273
>>15059
>GRR (((Martin)))
>Martin: Stoat
>Stoat: Weasel
>Weasel: Eli (((Wiesel)))
The more you know
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No.15277
I'm from 4chan's lit. Do you guys actually like ASOIAF?
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No.15281
>>15277
never read it, never will
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No.15282
>>8458
Writers write whatever their obsession leads them. He's following his muse. Much respect.
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No.15284
>>15281
So this is either a very bad shitpost or the majority of 8chan's lit like genre fiction.
Sad
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No.15288
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No.15289
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No.15290
>>8663
What about universe novels. Two separate unrelated stories occurring in the same universe? How come this isn't done more often?
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No.15309
>thread is more than two years old
>GRRM still hasn't fucking finished The Winds of Winter
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No.15443
>>13285
Good point, and well put
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No.15511
>>13285
>>15443
Shower this man in dozens more Hugo, Locus and Nebula awards!!
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No.15838
>>8458
jesus christ what a lazy fatass fuck
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No.15842
>>8461
Warband and Morrowind are good though.
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No.15843
>>10299
>semi-historical
>implying they're historical at all
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No.15844
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No.15847
>>15844
Even Schopenhauer knows we shouldn't read him.
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No.15900
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No.15912
I hope he dies and when they go to his home to pick up and publish his remaining "Manuscripts" they find out he had written nothing since the tv show started out of laziness. I hope the same happens to Memeura so people realize sometimes you have to a cheap skate and shill out low quality chapters for a long running series if you want to finish it in time.
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No.15929
>>15912
>implying fatass hasn't shilled out low quality Chapters
dude, entire characters in ASOIAF are low quality. Brienne of fucking Tarth, pure garbage.
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No.15942
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No.16109
why can't this motherfucker just finish the book?
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No.16124
>>16109
He doesn't need to now. I mean he's got his money between the TV series and spin off books he wrote to milk his fans.
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No.16129
>>15290
>unrelated stories occurring in the same universe
That's every non fantasy/sci-fi story ever written.
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No.16136
>>15929
Pretty much every character in ASOIAF is fucking low quality, anon. If it wasn't for all the sex tacked on, nobody would've even cared about the books, let alone the show - it's for people who think they're too mature for orcs and elves all the while it's got the substance of an emo tween's diary entry hating his parents for telling him to mow the lawn. GOT is literally the most overrated show ever made, and any other writer would've used said overratedness to their advantage unlike GRRM, who's too busy whining about an irrelevant franchise like the NY Jets than actually, y'know, writing.
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No.16248
it's all up to the fatman now.
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No.16251
>>16248
It is going to be shit anyway, it will end in the same way as the show ended.
I hope people use this chance to create high quality fun fiction.
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No.16262
>>16248
He all but confirmed that the book will be finished for the Hugo Awards in New Zealand next year, but yeah, it is too little too late. Especially after GoT's last few seasons.
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No.16296
Why is Gregory R.R. Muffin so fat? How do people get this fat? Does he stuff his face with food to research medieval royalty?
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