It’s not bad, either.
Although I do have to admit: why will it take George Martin so long? I mean, somebody else’s already done the heavy labor of figuring out how the book ends.
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Maybe Martin’s just in no rush to disappoint people.
Which is not a remark about Fleming, as I realize it might seem in the light of morning. I’ve not read either series of books, but it sounds as though there’s not much hope of a satisfactory resolution for the Game of Thrones series.
I didn’t take it as one. I figured you were snarking at Martin, and laughed accordingly.
It would be hard to disappoint people more than Dance with Dragons.
Feast for Crows was a disappointment, but at least there was character development, backstory, and it seemed like pieces were being put into place for the next tidal surge. (Although the minstrel pulling the face-heel turn bugged the hell out of me. After all, he was instrumental in stopping Jon from pulling a lesser version by invoking friendship. So stealing his friend’s money and abandoning them in a foreign land seemed like it could have used at least a bit of foreshadowing.)
But Dance?
It abandoned the prior character development.
It introduced new viewpoint characters who did not advance the plot, while being completely uninteresting, but adding hundreds of pages of filler.
Every single plot line ended in a cliffhanger. (And several did so well before the halfway point of the book! They just dropped, and were never picked back up.)
Then there was the torture porn… (When I said I wanted Theo to die a slow, painful death, I evidently did not really mean it. I wanted to see justice, not GRRM wallowing in depraved fantasies of degradation.)
I could continue.
He actually wrote 2 other novels between the 2 SuperEgo novels.