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I WOULD TOTALLY LOVE "A GAME OF THRONES" CEREAL!

I don't share those feelings. I love reading series!

And I don't wait till the series is finished. It's true it would suck if an autor wouldn't finish the series. But I think it's good to get a break after a couple of books.

I'm currently reading aDwD after going through the other 4 books in 2 months. And it kinda feels like an overload of GRRM!

I agree with both views. I love long epic series that have great stories and great character development. I dislike when they drag out so long that the author dies and leaves us hanging, needing someone else to finish the story. I worry that this series is going to be like that. I hope not! On Tad Williams webpage, there is an interview with GRRM and someone asked that questions. He said it won't happen. So, we'll see.

With Game of Thrones, I think there's an antidote to end-of-the-series waiting. Watch the TV show while you're waiting for the next book! :) I've only seen the first few episodes, but it's very good and it follows the plotline of the books quite closely. Besides, Sean Bean has always been one of my favorite actors. :)

Dasmith wrote: "Although I have enjoyed Martin's series, I wonder if anyone else is as fatigued as I am with books published in a series. I have come to the point now that any new book that is volume one of a proj..."

Exhausted by end of fifth book. Maybe I could just wait 10 years and read the last book? I read so quickly, that I prefer to only read series that are complete. Had a wonderful three months with Horatio Hornblower!

I don't agree at all: I love long series and long books. I like being able to really get into a book, get to know all the characters really well.

[That said, I don't seem to be reading any such series right now, other that ASOIAF. I guess I'm just skeptical about epic fantasy, at the same time that I'm reading less than I used, and also at the time that I'm exploring lots of brilliant classic books. But I'm sure I'll get caught up eventually, and although I probably won't like most of the big series, it won't be because they're big series.]

A book being in a series, and long gaps in between releases just means I get to reread the earlier books when I know the new one is due to be released. How can this be a bad thing?

Cally, If you want to refresh your memory on previous books there is a website with a synopsis of each book.

I don't mind getting into a series as long as it progresses. Wheel of Time seemed to stagnate until it was taken over by Brandon Sanderson. Every series, however does need to be kept fresh and needs an ENDING. All good things must come to pass. I hope Mr. martin will progress his story to a timely ending.

As in the Wheel of Time series? I only own book 1 and 12 of that, and haven't started yet, but I'm interested to see what Brandon Sanderson does with it.

With this series, it doesn't really seem to me as if each book is a seperate one, but that each book together makes up one book (if that makes sense). Unlike books such as Harry Potter or the Mistborn series, where each book can be read as an independent, with this each has to be read in order, and re-reading might be a bit difficult. Also, I can't see how this series is going to end, so that makes the wait a lot harder.

What I am concerned about is that the next book will take 6 years to write and release, meaning that I will have forgotten the main plots and the characters. I don't really want to have to re-read them, but that might be the only option for me. He doesn't do the usual reminder of what happened in previous books, so there's nothing there to refresh the memory.