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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Only if you consider having the plot basically tread water for two whole (and massive) books awful. 
Seriously though, George is a great writer. There's no denying that. Some of his characters are the best I've read, bar none. He's just come unfocused. He dropped the reins. But I'd love it if he was able to pick them back up in time to salvage the series. As it stands now, I don't see him even being able to finish in two more books (originally planned for three and later bumped to seven). It'll get expanded again to eight or nine before it's all said and done. And if that happens, then Daniel Abraham will probably have to "Sanderson" the finale for George. |
"Sanderson" is now a verb?
As I've said, I really do think that GRRM lost the plot after ASOS. He should have gone with a 5 or even 10 year gap and covered the events in AFFC in flashbacks. But he did what he did and now we have ADWD.
I've held off buying ADWD-in part because I was hoping the price would go down and in part because I feared that I would be disappointed. I'm going to go ahead and buy it now because I have a long plane ride coming up. I hope it will be a good read.