New GRRM Update on ADWD

Congratulations Crooksy! At least you'll have something to read when baby keeps you up half the night. :)

How about Jaime for a name? It's not a crazy stupid name, though you could spell it more normally. Actually, I always said if I had a boy I'd call him Julian because I think it sound classy. But since I've never wanted kids, there wasn't much chance of that happening, so I'll just try to name other people's! ;)
 
You do realise that there are almost certainly folk out there who are already waiting for the final book.
 
We can hardly do worse with those volumes than we did with ADWD. But to prove otherwise:
  • The Winds of Winter: May 8 2017
  • A Dream of Spring: May 8 2023
You heard it here first!
 
Culhwch said:
July 12: A Dance with Dragons is published.

July 13: The wait for the next book begins....
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Now don't be silly, the wait begins on July 14th. ADwD is 900 pages long! There no way folks are reading that in a day. :D
 
Culhwch said:
Six years apiece? You figuring on a Braavosi Knot followed by a Westerosi Knot?
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I'm hoping to be very pleasantly surprised. That won't happen if I assume, say, two years per volume.


And I need to be pleasantly surprised. I'm still waiting for thirty-six Transcendental Studies; Liszt only got round to writing the first twelve**. I wouldn't mind so much, but it's the bicentenary of his birth later this year. (Okay, Lyapunov produced the next twelve in the series - I have a CD of them - but that still leaves twenty-four to go....)


** - It doesn't help that Liszt wrote those twelve at least twice (the first set published in 1837, the second in 1851), and the fourth study, Mazeppa, has other piano versions (and even an orchestral one)! Why didn't he just get on with the other thirty-six studies instead of wasting his time writing books and symphonies, symphonic poems, concertos, songs, oratorios, etc, and getting ordained and various other stuff? Didn't he owe those thirty-six studies it to his fans...?!!! :mad:;):)

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Preordered! Amazon is even claiming that I'll have it on the actual release date of July 12th. Hey, maybe I'll get really lucky and the mail system is moving ultra-fast that week and I'll get it a day early! But most likely two days late.
 
Ursa major said:
And I need to be pleasantly surprised. I'm still waiting for thirty-six Transcendental Studies; Liszt only got round to writing the first twelve**. I wouldn't mind so much, but it's the bicentenary of his birth later this year. (Okay, Lyapunov produced the next twelve in the series - I have a CD of them - but that still leaves twenty-four to go....)
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Maths was never my strongest subject at school, but if Liszt wrote twleve, then Lyapunov wrote the next twelve, wouldn't that only leave twelve of thirty-six?

** - It doesn't help that Liszt wrote those twelve at least twice (the first set published in 1837, the second in 1851), and the fourth study, Mazeppa, has other piano versions (and even an orchestral one)! Why didn't he just get on with the other thirty-six studies instead of wasting his time writing books and symphonies, symphonic poems, concertos, songs, oratorios, etc, and getting ordained and various other stuff? Didn't he owe those thirty-six studies it to his fans...?!!! :mad:;):)

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Not to mention all those visits to cons he insisted on making...
 
Culhwch said:
Maths was never my strongest subject at school, but if Liszt wrote twleve, then Lyapunov wrote the next twelve, wouldn't that only leave twelve of thirty-six?
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He wrote twelve of the planned forty-eight, leaving me waiting for thirty-six. (Lyapunov kindly wrote another twelve, but let's face it: I've heard of Lyapunov, but how many of you had before my previous post? Another clue: I use the name, Lyapunov, for a rather nasty medical condition in my WiP2. Not really a comment on his compositions, but still....)



Culhwch said:
Not to mention all those visits to cons he insisted on making...
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Funny you should say that.... Okay, Liszt retired from paid recital-giving in the 1840s, but that didn't stop him roving about the place going to one musical festival after the other. And living in three different cites (Weimar, Roma and Budapest) each and every year for seventeen years, his (oh-so-aptly named) "vie trifurquée".

Having said that, I'm not really relying on the missing studies (24 or 36) appearing. If Liszt hasn't written them by now....
 
Does anyone know why the bookdepository is showing the ADWD date as 30 Sep (there are multiple versions and this is the most current/recent)? Will this be updated or are they generally behind in releasing new books?
 
I don't know, I've never ordered a new book from them. I was thinking of getting it there, but if they're not going to have it as soon as it's released, I'll have to go the brick-and-mortar route. If I can find one that hasn't gone bankrupt, that is.
 
I'll be going the bricks and mortar route for as long as I can.

Once bookshops as we know them have gone (anyone willing to say whether that'll be before or after TWOW is released? ;)), I doubt they'll be coming back.
 
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