Here’s some of the projects King was working on while composing The Dark Tower series in the background, not including movies, essays, articles, reviews, etc.:

That’s ridiculous. The publishers know how much money him missing those deadlines is going to cost them. They aren’t his buddies they are business people who wanted it when they wanted it.

Definitely better than Martin’s and borrows FAR fewer typical fantasy tropes than Martin’s series did. Both are good, but Malazan is the more fullfilling of the two book by book.

Sorry, but the Malazan Series is not a convoluted mess. In fact, the denoument of the last two books in the series is one of THE Finest endings to a series that I’ve ever read. Aside from that, the seperate volumes are completely original stories that CAN be largely self-contained within that given book. They NEVER…

Yes - but he wrote about 20 other books in that same period. If you put Stephen King’s complete output on this graph it would (I’m quite sure) blow everyone else out of the water. That guy is a writing machine.

I’m also not going to pretend he isn’t aware that it’s behind schedule when he writes on his blog about how it’s behind schedule.

We’re talking two different versions of worthwhile here.

Agreed.

The Tolkein line is misleading, in that it provides separate publication dates for the three volumes of LoTR. LoTR was delivered to the publisher as a single unit. In fact, Tolkein originally wanted them published as a single volume. The publisher convinced him to split it in to three.

Not to mention that fluff that he published wasn’t even finished, he just put it out to get it out there. Also, WoW isn’t even the last book in the series, A Dream of Spring is supposed to finish out the series, and who knows if that ever comes out or if it ends up as the final book. At this rate there is no way…

Two caveats:

The next book in A Song of Ice and Fire (because that’s the name of the book series, not Game of Thrones) is late.

The chart is a joke, it’s not really comparing things that are comparable. They should be comparing series that have comparable page counts per book.

And just said he isn’t going to set anymore deadlines, so he’s basically just doing whatever he wants and to hell with his publishers.

How does Lord of the Rings even count for this metric? It’s not really a trilogy, it’s a ~1000 page book Tolkien delivered complete to his publisher, who then decided to split it into three installments.

I’m sorry but this is utterly useless. We have no idea how much prepwork they did before publication of the first book or how long they actually spent doing work on each one.

Gervais just ended the show by saying ’From me and Mel Gibson ‘Shalom!’

Yeah, they didn’t “yuck it up like a couple of old racists”, he pretended to do that so that he could deliver the line. The entire point of that bit was that he wasn’t sorry at all and he actually doubled down on the idea that Gibson is a piece of shit. There’s a lot to hate Gervais for, but this is isn’t it. As you…

Not really getting where the hate for Gervais is coming from. To me he remains a great example of the comedian who always punches up and never punches down.

What are you talking about? His comment about Affleck when introducing Matt Damon was hilarious.