clevername wrote:part of me wants to rush through it, part of me doesn't because I know we're at least 5 years from the next one and there's a good chance Martin dies before he finishes it anyway.
He recently said he doesn't plan on even starting book 6 until next year sometime. For a guy whose heart has a limited number of beats left that decreases with every cheeseburger he eats, that's disappointing.
I just read an interview, it was in Time or Entertainment Weekly, that said he's all ready got a lot of book 6 completed. He said the "Beginning is done".
I think he pumps the books out alot sooner than 5 years each. I bet the last 2 will be out w/in 5 years total.
Very disappointed. So much buildup. So little payoff. 950 pages of "get ready for book 6!" This woulda been fine, if book 4 hadnt been 800 pages of "Dont worry, you'll love book 5, promise!"
There is no way the HBO series will be filmable past, oh, season 3 at best.
This is the type of book I tend to like - non-fiction, historical with some tangents and present day meanderings - but still has a story line.
An amazing tale. The Amazon sounds like a hostile environment and a scary-ass place (or at least used to be). Every living thing under constant attack and in survival mode. The book is not unflawed though -
Yeah, the author rekindles interest in an amazing explorer (fawcett) and unsolved mysteries of the amazon, yet author leads you to believe he has a conclusion to mysteries of the tale, but he doesn't. just a lot of loose ends that he pretended he could tie up.
