If GRRM knew ~ 8 years ago what he knows now , that the HBO series will beat him to the finish line , I wonder if he would still agree to the deal . If he knew and the finale and most of the events on his last two books of his magna opus would be spoiled . Genuine question . Sometimes I think he would have hesitated to agree if he knew , and sometimes I think that 20 years from now and beyond , no one would really care what came first . <| sep |> Would have been smart to snatch their trash bags after the story broke . Might have tampered evidence . <| sep |> I used to watch Fox news clips just to laugh at O ' Reily , thinking to myself oh silly conservatives , I ' m young and I know so much more than them . Now it ' s the only American news station I trust to some degree and expect some form of truth . oh how times have changed