The real explanation for that long delay in George R.R. Martin’s next book?
Source: io9.com
Fans have been waiting years for A Dance With Dragons, the fifth book in George R.R. Martin’s Song Of Ice and Fire series. A vocal minority have gotten snarky about it. But really, they misunderstand the reasons for the delay.
I’ve been reading the Song Of Ice and Fire books for the past few weeks, and I’ve gotten up to midway through A Storm Of Swords. They’re pretty amazing, in the way that a lot of Charles Dickens is amazing — there are a ton of characters, almost all of whom are memorable, managing to live in on your mind long after you put the books down.
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‘The Vampire Diaries’ prequel novel: An exclusive cover peek
Source: shelf-life.ew.com
While Damon from The Vampire Diaries is busy tearing up the polls in EW’s official Sexy Beast competition, the show’s other bloodsucking protagonist is set to get a series of prequel books named after him. HarperCollins Children’s Books and Alloy Entertainment have announced that they will be releasing Stefan’s Diaries #1: Origins, the first in a planned trilogy of novels that will shed sunlight on the vampire brothers’ long, troubled history, including the Civil War-era romance that turned them against each other.
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Letting a Flying Hairy Arm Take It Away
Source: nytimes.com
Following a dedication page that offers his fifth novel to the memory of Kurt Vonnegut — implicitly announcing as his goal to employ Vonnegut’s shades of dark comedy and fluorescent farce — Rick Moody turns things over in “The Four Fingers of Death” to one Montese Crandall. This character is not the narrator of the novel but the “author” of a slab of sci-fi horror hack work coextensive with it. This is to say that Mr. Moody here undertakes an extended impersonation of a long-winded ham, convincingly so.
Crandall lives in a scruffy Arizona town in the year 2025, a zany, dystopian time when many consumers have smart phones surgically implanted in their wrists, and Major League Baseball allows players to use not only performance-enhancing drugs but also even bionic limbs. Though a sports memorabilia dealer by trade, Crandall thinks of himself first as a writer doing innovative work in the genre of the one-sentence story. “He was just a kid,” is the whole of his tribute to a teenager who died in a motorcycle accident. “The 350 pages of a novel,” Crandall argues early on, “are tedious elaboration.” He nonetheless proceeds to deliver himself of a book clocking in at roughly twice that length
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