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Martin fan has realized the wait for The Winds of Winter is about to surpass the wait for all five A Song of Ice and Fire books combined, and fans are just about coping.As any Game of Thrones fan will tell you, the wait for The Winds of Winter has lasted far longer than expected.
Some have given up hope entirely that the book, the penultimate in Martin's extraordinary A Song of Ice and Fire series, will ever arrive, while others remain optimistic."The wait for Winds is about to surpass the wait for [the] first 5 books combined!" one fan posted on Reddit, and, indeed, they're right.
A Game of Thrones was published on August 1, 1996, and the latest book in the series, A Dance With Dragons, was published on July 12, 2011.
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That's a wait of 15 years for five books (or 14 years and 11 months, if you're being precise)
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