A Dance With Dragons…
Am I going to get it?
(long pause)
Yeah.
Despite the fact that the ever-erudite superversive is fairly accurate in his criticisms of the nihilistic worldview of Song of Ice and Fire. (WARNING: LINK CONTAINS SPOILERS!) And despite that I would be very surprised if George R.R. Martin lives long enough to finish the series. That’s not a death wish or a grudge or a flippant joke – I mean, Mr. Martin is in his sixties.
Valar morghulis, as the “Song of Ice and Fire” books themselves might say.
But I really want to see what happens next in the story.
So, off to the bookstore I go, feeling like such a chump. Charlie Brown, I feel your pain about Lucy and that football.
-JM
(And, of course, if you’re picking up “A Dance With Dragons” today, why not pick up some other works of fantasy fiction for only a little more money?)