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Again. OUt of books. I wouldn't be so twitchy about it if every Author I find myself looking forward to most didn't take their sweet time with getting stuff out. Though, Rowling had one book out this year, and she's already warned us she's going to take a LONG time for the next book. George R. R. Martin? Dude. It's been THREE YEARS. Three Years. And according to Ye Olde Amazon, the next book, #4 of 6, is going to be out in April and I'm going to start this overdone waiting game all over again. Arg!
Now, I know the arguements I'm gonna get for me being ticked off about that: Oh, buit it's better the author takes his time and gets it right than rushes and makes a bad book.
And to a point, I agree with that. But there's a threshold I eventually hit where it stops being patience and the author being careful and starts being 'for the love of GOD finish the freaking book already!)
I got the last Martin book in November, 2000. Next book: April, 2004. I should be more specific. Three and a Half Years. W.T.F.? Seriously.
I bounce around a lot, I know. I've already given up the Laurell K Hamilton series thing out of sheer frustration with the recent books, and where things ended up. (Hell, I could make the arguement of anti-gay sentiments in the books, but that is the rough equivalent of my walking into the lion's den after covering my body with steak sauce. Not going there.)
So, I'm stuck on the book front. :P Help?
Again. OUt of books. I wouldn't be so twitchy about it if every Author I find myself looking forward to most didn't take their sweet time with getting stuff out. Though, Rowling had one book out this year, and she's already warned us she's going to take a LONG time for the next book. George R. R. Martin? Dude. It's been THREE YEARS. Three Years. And according to Ye Olde Amazon, the next book, #4 of 6, is going to be out in April and I'm going to start this overdone waiting game all over again. Arg!
Now, I know the arguements I'm gonna get for me being ticked off about that: Oh, buit it's better the author takes his time and gets it right than rushes and makes a bad book.
And to a point, I agree with that. But there's a threshold I eventually hit where it stops being patience and the author being careful and starts being 'for the love of GOD finish the freaking book already!)
I got the last Martin book in November, 2000. Next book: April, 2004. I should be more specific. Three and a Half Years. W.T.F.? Seriously.
I bounce around a lot, I know. I've already given up the Laurell K Hamilton series thing out of sheer frustration with the recent books, and where things ended up. (Hell, I could make the arguement of anti-gay sentiments in the books, but that is the rough equivalent of my walking into the lion's den after covering my body with steak sauce. Not going there.)
So, I'm stuck on the book front. :P Help?
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Date: 2003-12-09 08:01 pm (UTC)Martha Wells is pretty awesome setting-building fantasy, though she's also kinda slow to put out new books in trilogies she just started last year arrgh. http://www.marthawells.com/thorns.htm is a short story you should read anyway- it's Sleeping Beauty from the witch's standpoint, sort of.
I have a list of authors as long as my arm, but a lot of them are more sci-fi/occasionally a bit experimental and not to everyone's taste.