Are you familiar with the Song of Ice and Fire books?  They're one of my favorite reads.
yea they are a series of epic fantasy novels by the american novelist and screenwriter geroge r. r. martin
Do you know when George R. R. Martin is going to release the next book in the series?
no but i know he began his first volume of the series of game of thrones in 1991
That's pretty amazing.  The sheer volume of characters in the books can be hard to keep track of. Do you know how many there are?
well he is now published five out of a panned seven volumes
Wow, there's going to be 2 more and it's taken him 5 years each for the first books.  When was the last book published?
northernmost Westeros, and the ambition of Daenerys Targaryen, the deposed king's exiled daughter, to assume the Iron Throne.
Martin's inspirations included the Wars of the Roses and the French historical novels "The Accursed Kings" by Maurice Druon. "A Song of Ice and Fire" received praise for its diverse portrayal of women and religion, as well as its realism. An assortment of disparate and subjective points of view confronts the reader, and the success or survival of point of view characters is never assured. Within
Themes in A Song of Ice and Fire
"A Song of Ice and Fire" is an ongoing series of epic fantasy novels by American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. The first installment of the series, "A Game of Thrones", which was originally planned as a trilogy, was published in 1996. The series now consists of five published volumes, and two more volumes are planned. The series is told in the third-person through the eyes of a number of point of view characters. A