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?
three main stories interwave a dynastic war among several families for controle of westeroes