Your resident readers tackle Scott Lynch’s Lies of Locke Lamora, try to figure out wtf LARPing is, and investigate a national crisis: the epidemic of unfinished fantasy series. We’re looking at you, George R. R. Martin and Pat Rothfuss! Plus, a visit to Dune with a pit stop in the bloody battlefield known as romance author Twitter. Books mentioned:  Naomi Novik, Uprooted, His Majesty’s Dragon; Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man’s Fear; Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time series; George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones; Frank Herbert, Dune. Links: <ul> <li><a href= "https://twitter.com/scottlynch78?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor"> @scottlynch78</a></li> <li><a href="https://iswintercoming.com/">Is Winter Coming?</a></li> <li>Laura Miller in the New Yorker <a href= "https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/11/just-write-it"> on Martin’s delay</a></li> <li>Faleena Hopkins’s Cocky <a href= "https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/08/romantic-novelist-trademarking-of-word-cocky-fameela-hopkins"> Drama</a></li> </ul> Email us at thatbookpod@gmail.com. Friend us on <a href= "https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/78092395-that-book-podcast">Goodreads</a> and follow us on <a href= "http://instagram.com/thatbookpod">Instagram</a>, <a href= "http://twitter.com/thatbookpod">Twitter</a>, and <a href= "http://facbook.com/thatbookpod">Facebook</a>.

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