I think the (well founded) concern WRT GRRM finishing the series is that he is NOT a speedy writer, he started writing the series in 1991 and it is very far from finished. And keeps expanding with seemingly every passing month. Interesting tidbit: one of my friend picked up a first edition of GoT on his recent travels. The jacket blurb talks about his writing the second follow up book "Dance with Dragon." Dear me, he sort of injected how many pages of narrative btwn publishing GoT and DwD? The world is so very large and just keeps expanding...it has rather run away without him. I just hope someone finishes is before *I* die.
As for spin offs...well I should hope he wouldn't be investing any time in writing those! Though I also think a full Sand Snakes show would be very worthy of HBO's attention. Or Inside the Maesters' Training program. Or both.
I might like the Dunk and Egg stories more than aSoIaF.
Unrelated, has anyone else read Audrey Niffeneger's _The Night Bookmobile?_. It's a short story and I'm utterly in love. She and Erin Morgenstern should hang out. And tape all their conversations. But like with many of her other works, I'm torn between lauding it as a praise of blissful readership or frowning upon it as a cautionary tale. I suppose it's really somewhere in btween, but i'm still in that post-reading haze where my thoughts haven't had time to settle and congeal.
I enjoyed Colson Whitehead's
The Intuitionist,
but I'm abandoning
Zone One.
Two discs in, the main character has no personality and NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. It's basically all worldbuilding and language, and I can't appreciate that via audiobook. Literary fiction with zombies seems intriguing, though.
Is
The Intuitionist
the elevator inspector one?
I liked that one (and I think of it every day when I get on the elevator). Did he also write Sag Harbor?
Good lord, that typo was terrible. I R STOOPID.
For literary fiction with zombies try this:http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0805092439/ref=pd_aw_sbs_2?pi=SL500_SY115
Don't know if there is an audio book though. Appears maybe not.
I really liked Zone One but I read it so that probably makes a difference, especially pace wise. Also, not having much if a personality is a big part of the narrator's idea of himself, especially at the beginning.
This is the first month in a long time that I'm skipping book club. I just couldn't force myself to read Kerouack (Dharma Bums). I understand it's better than On the Road, but still.
I found Zone One so flat.
