Just so you know, I took my drugs at 1:30am Tuesday and have spent the last 2 days largely sleeping or reading. That much reading time got me to the end of the 3rd book in Song Of Ice And Fire.
I’m stopping there.
Yes, I know there’s a fourth book. I even own it in handy Kindle form. But word has gotten back to me that my precious Tyrion is not in Book 4, and that in fact Book 4 is actually only Book 4A. Half the characters and storylines seem to lay in wait for book 5–er, Book 4B.
Right now I lack the patience for such nonsense. Yes, I am terribly interested in the fate of Westeros and those who plot to rule her. But I crave information. Just knowing that half the people I want to spend time with aren’t at this party…well, it kills the mood.
In an ideal world, I’ll wait until the next book (half of this book–can you tell how annoyed I am?!?) is published and read them together. Then again, I’m the same girl who finished all her Halloween candy by 2 November every year, despite plans to hang onto it until Thanksgiving.
I’ve gotten very angry with myself as I troll the internets in search of bits of news about Martin and his writing. I remember doing the same thing for the first seven years of this century, pawing at the ground and grumbling for details on the next Harry Potter novel. I promised myself I would never again start a series that had not yet been completed. We see how well that promise lasted, don’t we?
Nevertheless, I’m betting that Book 4B will be published right around the time the miniseries starts on HBO. It can’t be too far off, frankly. I’ve seen too many paperback standers in bookstores hawking the series. They’re girding up for a big push, and would be crazy to squander that without releasing 4B. Not with publishing houses in such great turmoil and booksales looking more and more like buggywhip retail.
So I’m hedging my bets that I won’t have to put off reading 4A much longer than November. We’ll see how that plan goes.
*I’m sorry. But I can’t call a book a whole book when all of the story lines remain unaddressed. Yes, it may be bound and sold as a single volume, but it isn’t the whole book. I’m already begrudging about getting sucked into another series. I’ll be blaggered before I call the Dance with Dragons anything other than “Book 4B”.
Trying to figure out when Martin will publish the next book is a bit of a crapshoot.
He’s said on several occasions that he’ll publish the book when he’s good and ready and when it meets his standards.
He also has said that with the show coming to HBO, he’s been involved in the production and that may delay the next book more.
I like the optimism of publication when the show comes out, but I have a feeling the paperbacks being pushed up to the front of the store shelves has more to do with the series coming than the next book.
Yeah, I’m afraid of that. Regardless, I’m backing away slowly and ratcheting down my hopes.
Especially now that many of the reviews on Goodreads seem to imply–or directly state–that the series is losing it’s oomph in book 4A.
BTW, what miniseries is this? Is it based on the first book alone, or on all the published ones so far?
The miniseries is called “A Game Of Thrones” but everything I’ve heard about it says it will be (so far) four seasons; each season being one book.
I can just see the HBO pitch now: The Tudors meets The Wire meets Merlin/Wizard’s First Rule (cant think of the name of that series)/Lord Of The Rings.
There’s gobs of news for it all over the web if you google Game of Thrones HBO.
I’m halfway between pleased and irritated. They’ve cast Peter Dinklage (one of my favourite actors) as Tyrion, but they haven’t bothered–in any of the shots I’ve seen–to put him in any sort of makeup to have him look at all like Tyrion. This irritates me because it seems to say “well, a dwarf is a dwarf”. They wouldn’t cast any old male actor in the role of Gandalf and let him go out there without wigs or makeup. Tyrion has a very specific look for a very specific reason. And Dinklage is actually rather handsome–unlike our poor Tyrion.
(1) Well, I love Dinklage and always have, ever since Living in Oblivion, and I’m sure he’ll do a fine job, so that’s good news.
(2) But there are other actors out there with achondroplasia, and I wish TPTB would get a clue. To the point that when I saw the mention of a miniseries, I did think “well, obviously they’re going to cast Drinklage in that” which is sort of bad news.
Well, I bought A Game of Thrones and the audiobook of The Pillars of the Earth (read/performed by Richard E. Grant, who is fabulous so far).
It’s all your fault, Kat.
P. S. The Goodkind TV series was The Legend of the Seeker.
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