> "nobody has any hope left he'll get around to finishing ASOIAF" At this point I think he's fed up with the story and wants to move on to other things, as is

> "nobody has any hope left he'll get around to finishing ASOIAF" At this point I think he's fed up with the story and wants to move on to other things, as is his right (I would, too!), but there's no polite way of saying this without upsetting fans. In this day and age, you really don't want to upset fans and their accompanying hordes of vicious trolls. I wonder if it's wise at all, art-wise, to embark on a decades long book series. Had this been one book or even a trilogy, we all would have moved to greener pastures by now, satisfied with its ending. I say this as a fan of both books and TV show!