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Looking on Wikipedia we have this publishing track record
A Game of Thrones 1996
A Clash of Kings 1998
A Storm of Swords 2000 Novel
A Feast for Crows 2005 Novel
A Dance with Dragons 2011 Novel
The Princess and the Queen 2013 Novella
The Rogue Prince 2014 Novella
The World of Ice & Fire 2014 Reference Book
And the TV series
Two years in between the publication of the first three books. All three I enjoyed and were pretty well written and tight. Then five years between the third and fourth book.
Reports are that the fourth and fifth book were actually one insanely long book that were divided into two books. The fourth book being insanely long and about minor characters that most people didn't care about. If this is true, why did it take six years to publish the fifth book?
So we are already at the four year mark from the release of the fifth book and no publication date is set. And it could be 1,500 pages.
Someone had a good idea of where he was going at the beginning, he was hitting regular release dates and the story was moving in a way that made sense. I know I was wondering what the heck was going to happen after book three since so many characters were dead. I wonder if he was as well. And now we have two massive books, apparently a massive change in the planned story, longer gaps in publication while he tries to figure out what is going to happen and a TV series that will eventually sort this all out for him.
Yeah, I am glad I stopped reading after the third book.
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