Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
I too am looking forward to A feast for Crows and don't know why it's taken so long. It had a couple of previous release dates that were bumped up. Supposedly the book has been done for a while, and he is working on the next one in the series.

Glad to meet another GRRM fan.

From what I gather, he began Feast by jumping it ahead 5 years of where Storm of Swords left off, then telling much of the story in flashbacks. He then found that this didn't work, and had to scrap it and start again. He took much of the unused material and is putting it into book 5, tentatively titled "A Dance with Dragons", which is already 1/2 done as a result. He also said this will result in a 7th book in the series, again tentatively titled "The Winds of Winter". I hope this next book is ok...I find that when I'm doing anything that my first instinct is more often correct. I LOVE this series, and I do believe it's better than Tolkien's stuff.

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