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AIBU to be so angry to have just found out that 'Game Of Thrones' has not been completed yet?

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PacificDogwood · 15/09/2013 15:21

Well, am I?

So I worked myself through all 5 books (7 if you coung that 2 of them come in 2 parts) and only then to I find out that the next installment won't be fecking published until 2015 ShockAngry!
I mean, I ask you!!

Sad

Somebody could've warned me....

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WayHarshTai · 15/09/2013 17:15

Read discworld in groups and chronologically. So read all the Witches, then all the Death, all the Watch and so on, group by group.

sleepyhead · 15/09/2013 17:14

I just think how much better off I am than those poor sods who read the first one in 1996 Shock

At least I got a run at 5 in a row.

But yes, bloody GRRM. Neil Gaiman wrote a v good blog article about our wish to lock GRRM in a room until he'd finished writing GOT called "George RR Martin Is Not Your Bitch" Grin

SilverApples · 15/09/2013 17:11

Love Discworld, fantastic storytelling!
I'd start with Wyrd Sisters
Or Guards Guards.

MarianneEnjolras · 15/09/2013 17:08

Colour of Magic is first in the Discworld, and they are still being written too I think... but there are hundreds of them to get through.

MarianneEnjolras · 15/09/2013 17:07

All the different characters is what I like best about it. I like epic stories with a really detailed back story.

As far as I know from the ASOIAF forums, there is no expected due date for the next book, however there are a couple of chapters that have been released which you can find on the web.

Part of me doesn't want the next book to come out because the few of my favourite characters that aren't already dead will probably get killed!

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PacificDogwood · 15/09/2013 17:04

Maybe I should start on Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in the meantime? Which one first or is there a chronological order?

And is there an End, hm??

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PacificDogwood · 15/09/2013 17:02

Ah see, wrt HP, I waited until they were all out and then read the whole lot back to back

I've been on the GoT wiki - but they don't know more either; how would they, I know, but I need my fix.

And the TV series is just... well, okish, I suppose. I've only just seen the first 2 episodes, admittedly.

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PacificDogwood · 15/09/2013 17:01

Nonono, I don't want to read about even more frigging characters -
I want to know How It All Ends.

You know, traditional storytelling: beginning, middle, and crucially, END.

There is an Amazon review who said they feel it's turned into a soap opera, just goes on and on without anything coming to any kind of conclusion.

What is 'pulling a Misery'?

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bulletwithbutterflywings · 15/09/2013 16:55

Ah. I think my source may have been Wikipedia thinking about it! Blush

MarianneEnjolras · 15/09/2013 16:54

It's a mini series about Ser Duncan the Tall and Aegon (Maester Aemon's little brother).

They can be found in these books:

The Hedge Knight

The Sworn Sword

The Mystery Knight

dreamingbohemian · 15/09/2013 16:53

It's actually progress if they're saying 2015!

I know it's infuriating. I'm surprised no one has pulled a Misery on GRRM yet.

bulletwithbutterflywings · 15/09/2013 16:52

Isn't there one coming out this year? Its 7 books in total isn't it? ( not counting the weird split up books) and the last book is 2015. That's what I read anyway.
No spoilers please - I'm only half way through book 4!

RatHammock · 15/09/2013 16:50

Winter is coming.

What are Dunk and Egg please?

MarianneEnjolras · 15/09/2013 16:48

Don't worry, you've still got Dunk and Egg to read.

I did my time waiting for Harry Potter to end, never thought I'd be in the same position again with another series!

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PacificDogwood · 15/09/2013 16:46
Shock

Oh you bad, bad badger, Thrustbadger - don't even think that. I will die of Acute Uncompleted Plotline Dissatisfaction Sad

tries really had not to mention badger culls as in bad taste, but fails

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Thrustbadger · 15/09/2013 16:40

He's really old as well so he might die before he finishes it!

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PacificDogwood · 15/09/2013 16:37

Oh nononono, that argument does NOT make it better.
I don't do deferred gratification v well... Grin

He wrote the first book in 1996 and is still not done?

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DisneyDiva87 · 15/09/2013 16:29

Not at all but at least you have something to look forward to

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