Next Game of Thrones book The Winds of Winter won't be out until 2016

[FlameFlash]

I read the first book of GRRM. It was a work of extreme lackluster incest, wolves, cheating, crazy people, and king killing. I kept waiting for a dragon or a magic system and feeling highly disappointed...

When I read fiction I read to be entertained, not to be disgusted with the depravity of the world the author has created. It was like a really bad D&D campaign with a few classes and almost all the races removed.

[kentonio]

I read the first book of GRRM. It was a work of extreme lackluster incest, wolves, cheating, crazy people, and king killing. I kept waiting for a dragon or a magic system and feeling highly disappointed...

When I read fiction I read to be entertained, not to be disgusted with the depravity of the world the author has created. It was like a really bad D&D campaign with a few classes and almost all the races removed.

A prudish nerd. Is there anything more despicable..

[DinoDoc]

This reminds me. Did you guys read The Black Company series by Glen Cook?

[kentonio]

Nope, any good?

[Hauldren Collider]

A prudish nerd. Is there anything more despicable..

I felt the same way as him.

[DinoDoc]

Nope, any good?

I liked it.

[FlameFlash]

I felt the same way as him.

At least give me a Gandalf if you're going to write mainstream "fantasy". The book felt more like the wrong kind of "fantasy" fiction.

Yes, lets throw a stupid kid off a tower after he witnesses incest. Made no sense for him to go out the window to me at the time either, so it was just so he had the opportunity to stay in his point of view and write the scene.

[kentonio]

I felt the same way as him.

Your point being?

[Lorizael]

It was a work of extreme lackluster incest...

I do so hate my incest lackluster...

[DinoDoc]

I liked it.

I should probably expand on this. I'd probably describe it as a military fantasy epic. It follows the adventures of an elite mercenary company. Here's a plot summary of the first book in the series: The Black Company (novel)

[regexcellent]

Your point being?

HC unironically likes Taylor Swift, pay him no mind

[Elok]

I've avoided the series just because I hear it described as basically one of those premium cable tits-and-treachery miniseries like The Borgias or The Tudors. Only there's zombies and dragons and stuff. Not really my scene. Also everybody apparently has the most ridiculously generic post-Tolkien high fantasy name, like Taethrys of Tilmarion.

[Jon Miller]

It was better for the series that he didn't (nothing evil against him) but Sanderson is a better author.

I really enjoyed (even loved) books 3-5 of WoT when I was in High School. I read and re-read them. The first book by itself didn't amaze me (I wasn't in love with the series until I read the third book... the same thing happened to me with Harry Potter), and by the time I was in college and Knife came out I though that he had lost direction and decided to read them all when he finished. I am not at all sure that Sanderson would find the direction and I haven't read any books since that one.

I disliked the first book I read by Sanderson and didn't finish it (it was last year or the year before, and I am pickier now). I am not sure if I would have fallen in love with WoT now.

I think (and thought) that GRRM was a better author than RJ, but in HS I didn't love aSoIaF. I don't think I ever loved it the same way, I have basically only reread it when a new book has come out. The books are just too harsh and not enough fun (especially some scenes in 3 and 4). I am still invested in the story though and will buy each book as it comes out. Many of GRRM characters are great characters but I don't particularly like them. This is true with some other authors who write good books but who I don't have any intention of re-reading (china mieville or iain banks for example).

The last time a new book came out I didn't re-read aSoIaF, but than I don't re-read things like I did in HS and College. Probably I do need to re-read but I doubt if I will in 2016 either.

JM

[kentonio]

I've avoided the series just because I hear it described as basically one of those premium cable tits-and-treachery miniseries like The Borgias or The Tudors. Only there's zombies and dragons and stuff. Not really my scene. Also everybody apparently has the most ridiculously generic post-Tolkien high fantasy name, like Taethrys of Tilmarion.

It's absolutely nothing like either The Borgias or The Tudors. The name thing is true though.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Though I found The Tudors to be surprising good and more historically accurate than similar types of TV historical dramas.