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Post by jnr on Aug 10, 2016 17:31:35 GMT
Well, I don't think Trump is going to shoot anyone, but it's the same principle. Once a guy knows his base has bought in, he knows he can do more or less as he pleases with no consequences... so, sure enough, he takes advantage of that.
The main difference appears to be that Trump was forced to leave the GOP primaries and enter a wildly new phase where he is suddenly held accountable for his behavior. Which is why in three months we'll be talking about humiliated he was on a global scale.
But GRRM remains in the ASOIAF primaries for life. There is no phase in which he becomes accountable. The trilogy he said would take three years, he transforms into a seven-book series (at least!) that takes a quarter-century, and he gets away with it. The single book that was supposed to follow ASOS and take perhaps two years, he transforms into two books packed with filler that take eleven years, and he gets away with that too. I'm not sure there's anything he could do, including committing felonies, that would cause the base to turn away from him.
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Post by jnr on Aug 10, 2016 17:38:24 GMT
I'm not sure there's anything he could do, including committing felonies, that would cause the base to turn away from him. Although this idea might be severely tested when R+L=J proves false in TWOW.
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Post by min on Aug 10, 2016 17:47:28 GMT
I'm not sure there's anything he could do, including committing felonies, that would cause the base to turn away from him. Although this idea might be severely tested when R+L=J proves false in TWOW. LOL!
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Post by Some Pig No Doubt on Nov 28, 2016 20:27:34 GMT
Well, I guess we can all dismiss the idea of Winds being released in 2017. A comment from Not a Blog is not, ah, hopeful re: imminent release. javstark Nov. 27th, 2016 01:42 am (UTC) Signed Copy I have my 20th anniversary edition of A Game of Thrones, I would love to have it signed, any chance you will be coming to Fort Lauderdale, Florida soon? Link | Frozen | Thread grrm Nov. 28th, 2016 07:27 pm (UTC) Re: Signed Copy No trips to Florida on my schedule at present. Sorry. I have been cutting back on my appearances until WINDS is done. The only events on my 2017 schedule are in Long Beach, California, and Helsinki, Finland.So if he's already slated only 2 events for 2017, this book ain't nowhere near done.
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Post by Ser Duncan on Nov 28, 2016 22:11:14 GMT
There's familiar face in those comments though...
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Post by jnr on Nov 28, 2016 23:31:04 GMT
So if he's already slated only 2 events for 2017, this book ain't nowhere near done. Unfortunately, your logic is irrefutable. God willing, the fan reaction when he does yet another sad little post on Jan. 1, 2017, talking about how he meant to do this, and he meant to do that, but it just wasn't in the cards... the months flew by, the election distracted him, blah blah blah... will be a deal less forgiving than it was on Jan. 1, 2016. I'm way past being forgiving and am starting to wonder if, as Urrax has been saying for years, this guy is just out of gas and there aren't any more books coming at all.
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Post by Weasel Pie on Nov 28, 2016 23:36:18 GMT
So if he's already slated only 2 events for 2017, this book ain't nowhere near done. I wonder if Negan... nah, nevermind.
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Post by Some Pig No Doubt on Nov 28, 2016 23:53:31 GMT
I'm way past being forgiving and am starting to wonder if, as Urrax has been saying for years, this guy is just out of gas and there aren't any more books coming at all. Oh, there will be books....just not ASOIAF-related ones. If he finally manages to churn out Winds in late 2018 or so, I imagine that will be it for the series. If this one is draining the life from him, its eventual publication will be ASOIAF's dying breath. There is no way he will put himself through this again.
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Post by Maester Flagons on Nov 29, 2016 2:40:53 GMT
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Post by Weasel Pie on Nov 29, 2016 2:54:59 GMT
If he finally manages to churn out Winds in late 2018 or so, I imagine that will be it for the series.
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Post by Weasel Pie on Jan 12, 2017 16:04:20 GMT
TWOW Update from GRRM - not exactly encouraging
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