Everyone's thoughts on GRRM/The Books/Them being unfinished, etc

Seems weird to you that someone would take the opportunity to make millions? And what do you mean, read the books from the beginning? If you mean read them before the TV show then yes I did. And finishing the series is different from finishing the books. They are not the same story.

Well, I don’t find it strange that he sold the rights and worked on the show with them. It’s a lot of money and pretty exciting to see your books on the screen.
I think he might have had the intention to finish the next book in the 5 years it needed for the show to catch up. But we’ve always had to wait a long time and he pretty much always said that THIS time it probably would be faster until it isn’t :p
It never really bothered me. I really like the books a lot (eventhough admittedly the last two didn’t ‘flow’ as good as the rest, splitting them was a mistake I think) - he puts so much thought and details into this world...I can understand it taking time - and that he gets sidetracked with other projects...if your creativity takes you somewhere else, gotta listen.
He told the show creators how he will end it. So, while the details and some characters fates might be different, I guess the ending will ruffly be the same.
I learned to view them separately, the show is just based on the books and took many liberties on changing things, I personally am ok with everything the way it is.
While understanding that things sometimes just take as long as they take...I do hope that we’ll see the books soon though 😅 I’ll have to re-read them again too...been too long; 8 years so far...I think it was a 6 years for the one before that...

He'll never finish the books, he's literally lost the plot. The last two were a mess and bogged down the story so badly it can't be fixed, not if he keeps using the same messy, meandering methods that ruined the last few.

So he's written other books about that world while he let ASOIAF languish, while he lets the HBO writers edit and restructure the mess he made of the story. And he's got no motive to tackle a job as difficult as fixing the books, not now that HBO has made him so rich he doesnt need to work again.

I have read all of the books and do not believe the book series will ever be done. It's an inexplicable situation.