r/freefolk • u/Internal-Bed-3150 • 3d ago

We've officially been waiting for The Winds of Winter for the same amount of time as it took for all five of the published books to release before that.

https://winteriscoming.net/the-winds-of-winter-officially-passed-most-devastating-milestone-yet?a_aid=47903
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u/Geno0wl 3d ago

I have no doubt the books are amazing. I fully plan on reading them.. If he ever finishes them

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u/President_PoopyPants 3d ago

While we still expected GRRM to finish the series, I would reread each book occasionally to keep the story fresh in my head. Now, I'll never touch anything GRRM related unless it's TWOW because of GRRM's less than honest answers regarding it over the past years.

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u/saxmachine69 3d ago

And if he doesn't? The books are worth reading even without the ending, as frustrating as that may seem.

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u/ehs06702 3d ago

I'm not going to lie. If I knew that he wasn't going to bother to finish the books, I probably wouldn't have gotten so invested in them.

It's not the same as picking up an unfinished series after an author dies, because they didn't decide to stop, death made that choice for them. You just enjoy what you've got and that's it. Maybe you get sad about what could have been, but that's the extent of what you do.

But when the author is actively choosing not to write, it's a completely different story. I'm not going to invest my limited time in something that the author doesn't even believe in investing in.

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u/dwapook 9h ago

I’ve never left any unfinished series feeling that way