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It took Goethe 35 years of daily work to finish Faust part 2, and it exhausted his mind and will completely. Not saying asoiaf is high art, but the anons saying he doesn't have it in him are right (Martin is of course no Goethe). I imagine the last two volumes are exponentially more difficult to pull off than the first four, just by virtue of how storytelling (particularly epic storytelling) works.