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My concern isn't so much "if" it is finished (even if Martin dies, it's likely that someone will be hired to wrap it up, much like Sanderson was brought in to finish Wheel of Time), but rather "when." It would be an absolute shame to start reading it now, get to volume 5, then have to wait forever for volume 6. Better to wait for all 7 reported books in the series, then read it.
Yep. Thatnis my problem with both of those series. I got to book 9 of WOT and then the three year wait just killled it. It will be have been thirteen years sine book 9 and the last one in January. I just don't have that good a memory!
Same with GRRM. read the first 4 and then a 6 year gap to book 5!
I would have to go back and reread the series just to pick up book 5 now.
all of those are great. If you are wanting something light to digest and a never ending book series try Xanth by Piers Anthony. I only made it through the first 10 but I think the series is up to book #37 or something like that.
Xanth is getting kind of creepy, according to some of my friends. Anthony seems to have turned into a pervert as time has gone on. After 7 solid books in the "Incarnations of Immortality" series, with only a slight hint of pedophilia in book 7, Under a Velvet Cloak left me feeling seriously slimy. According to Amazon reviews of books written right around that period, the Xanth novels are at about that same level.
My advice is to stick to the earlier ones, when Anthony's libido was more in check.
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My concern isn't so much "if" it is finished (even if Martin dies, it's likely that someone will be hired to wrap it up, much like Sanderson was brought in to finish Wheel of Time), but rather "when." It would be an absolute shame to start reading it now, get to volume 5, then have to wait forever for volume 6. Better to wait for all 7 reported books in the series, then read it.
Yep. Thatnis my problem with both of those series. I got to book 9 of WOT and then the three year wait just killled it. It will be have been thirteen years sine book 9 and the last one in January. I just don't have that good a memory!Same with GRRM. read the first 4 and then a 6 year gap to book 5!
I would have to go back and reread the series just to pick up book 5 now.
all of those are great. If you are wanting something light to digest and a never ending book series try Xanth by Piers Anthony. I only made it through the first 10 but I think the series is up to book #37 or something like that.
Xanth is getting kind of creepy, according to some of my friends. Anthony seems to have turned into a pervert as time has gone on. After 7 solid books in the "Incarnations of Immortality" series, with only a slight hint of pedophilia in book 7, Under a Velvet Cloak left me feeling seriously slimy. According to Amazon reviews of books written right around that period, the Xanth novels are at about that same level.My advice is to stick to the earlier ones, when Anthony's libido was more in check.
I would add Sanderson's Mistborn, and Abraham's Long Price Quartet to this list.