Oh yeah. I think Book iv is out this summer. I'm fifth on the list for it at the library.
There was HSQ at the end of the 1st book too.
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
sumi - Apr 25, 2005 6:39:30 am PDT #7459 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Ginger - Apr 25, 2005 6:42:09 am PDT #7460 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
At Arthur's urging, Sir Bedivere throws Excalibur back into the lake, and the hand of the Lady of the Lake rises to take it.
brenda m - Apr 25, 2005 6:42:33 am PDT #7461 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I'm in the same position with that series as I am with the Robin Hobb ship one - I read the first book right when it came out, and like them, but now it's been so long that I can't pick up the others without rereading the first, and for some reason I'm resistant to doing that.
I'm currently reading Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, and loving it. He does a wonderful job of building a different universe with its own rules and physics and expectations, and doing it solidly enough that it's very real and compelling.
JohnSweden - Apr 25, 2005 6:46:35 am PDT #7462 of 10002
I can't even.
Regarding A Feast for Crows, George's website says:
"I said that I hoped to have the book done by the end of the year. Famous last words. No, it's not done, though I am getting closer. I have more than thirteen hundred pages in final draft form and another hundred or so in roughs or fragments, but there are still some chapters yet to write. I'm telling myself that I'm on the home stretch. As soon as FEAST as done, I will announce it here." —George R.R. Martin, January 17, 2005
t twitches
erikaj - Apr 25, 2005 6:48:06 am PDT #7463 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Thirteen. hundred. pages...damn.
sumi - Apr 25, 2005 6:53:58 am PDT #7464 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
But Random House says July 2005 is that just a guestimate or wishful thinking on their part?
JohnSweden - Apr 25, 2005 6:58:02 am PDT #7465 of 10002
I can't even.
Dunno, seems kind of ambitious if he still had chapters to write in mid-January. I don't think it would be the first time that the dates had slipped on books in this series, he said, a master of understatement.
But July would be nice.
Connie Neil - Apr 25, 2005 6:58:32 am PDT #7466 of 10002
brillig
Sir Bedivere
Yes! Thank you, Ginger's spicy brains!
I'm waiting for the library to pry the last Robin Hobb book out of the wretched fingers of whoever keeps forgetting to return them. I was so desperate I checked the local Barnes & Noble, but they didn't have it. A shelf and a half of Laurell K. Hamilton, but not one copy of "Fool's Fate"! Ahhh!
sumi - Apr 25, 2005 7:02:24 am PDT #7467 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I wonder if he'll wind up with 5 books rather than 4?
1300 pages is almost twice as long as the others, no?
Nutty - Apr 25, 2005 7:09:48 am PDT #7468 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I've nevre read anything of Martin's, but I did carry around one of his books all day once, getting an autograph for my flatmate. I think it was Volume 1 of some series, and even that was big enough to bludgeon somebody with.
There is a limit beyond which a book cannot be bound, after which you'd have to go to a bigger trim size, thinner paper, or two volumes, but I don't know that it's happened in hardcover recently. Usually, the editor comes in with the mighty cluestick and says, "Keep this draft for the Ultimate Edition in ten years. Now, cut 500 pages for a realistic edition."