Reading dilemma

[ladyofastolat]

So, April 18th sees the airing of the first episode of A Game of Thrones, and on April 22nd - 24th, we're having another installment of our (spectacularly incompetent) Game of Thrones role-playing campaign. Since I've not reread the series since 2005, I was planning to reread the whole series in April, in honour of the TV series, and in order to remind me if there really are ten thousand Brians living on a small island in the north.

But now we've got a firm date for the next book in the series: July 12th. If I reread the series in April, I will have to spend nearly three months overflowing with impatience and anticipation. I know how my obsessions work, and I wouldn't be able to push the series to one side during this period, and just go off and read something else. I could do that with a wait of a year, but not with three months, especially with new TV episodes to keep it all current. If the TV series didn't exist, there would be no dilemma involved: I'd reread the series in June, ready to go seamlessly into the new book when it arrives.

So Yay! for a firm publication date of ADwD, but Wah! for the fact that it isn't closer to the air date of the TV series.

Comments

[rubygirl29.livejournal.com]

I just reread Game of Thrones, and have Clash of Kings on my NOOK. I don't think I could read all of them in a month!

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I do most of my reading in long, obsessed bouts, and I think I read A Storm of Swords in a single weekend. However, I did some firm rationing with A Feast for Crows and managed to eke it out for several weeks. So with those precedents, I'll either reread all four within two weeks, or they'll take me six months. I'm often quicker on a reread, though, since I don't have that "Must slow down! I don't ever want it to be over!" feeling going on.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'll believe the publication date when I've got the book in my sweaty little hands, and not before.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I'm strongly inclined to believe this one. Previous dates have been vague - "I hope to finish it by July" - not firm, like this, and he's been caught out so often in the past by the backlash after making false predictions, so there's no way he'll go public with a firm date like this unless he has no doubt at all about it.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Some people are NEVER pleased... :-D

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Also, there definitely are at least that many Brians. I have drawn them, therefore they must exist.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

You have also drawn dragons.

[chainmailmaiden]

I can't believe the last book is coming out 8 days before my final exam! *cries*

I know what my plan for after my exam will be though:

1. Finish exam at 12.30pm
2. Buy ADwD
3. Buy alcohol and snacks
4. Get train home, start reading book
5. Try to stay aware enough to get off at the right station
6. Go home and finish reading book in one sitting, fortified by my provisions

:-D