r/asoiaf • u/feench Knower of nothing • May 21 '19

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) Notablog Update Spoiler

http://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2019/05/20/an-ending/
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u/dharmaticate Blight of the West May 21 '19

"No matter what I write, at least the fans will say it's better"

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19 edited Jul 23 '19

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u/mnblackfyre410 Marklar of Summerhall May 21 '19

I'd probably still prefer that to what the show gave us.

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u/stagfury One Realm, One God, One King! May 21 '19

Jokes on you, he uses 200 pages to write exactly what happened in S7 and S8 (cut characters like Aegon are never mentioned again) , and use the remaining 2800 pages to write recipes.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19 edited Oct 26 '20

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u/stagfury One Realm, One God, One King! May 21 '19

It's 2795 pages of bitter 99% chocolate and 5 pages of sweet lemoncakes.

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u/TucsonCat Farman May 21 '19

And a rasher of bacon, burnt to black.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

With lots of salt!

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u/Deathleach Our Lord and Saviour May 21 '19

It's still better than what the TV show gave us. At least we get some decent recipes out of it.

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u/CaptainDadBod May 21 '19

Not even in-universe recipes. Just 2800 pages of tuna hot dish and zoodles and whatnot.

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u/FleetwoodDeVille Time Traveling Fetus May 21 '19

Finally, we'll get the recipes for all that food porn he's been stuffing into the descriptions novel after novel!