Yay! Plus, you're up there with some good company! :-)

To us: You are still number ONE!

I've just heard today, you're number one in Slovenia, beating a book about Josip Broz Tito

Dear George, Or Mr. Martin, if that's what you prefer. Please, please, please, please, for the love of all things good and lovely in the world, do not make me wait another 6 years for the next book to be released. I know it's your thing to leave us hanging, and I promise to be as patient as possible, but the ending that you delivered has literally left me longing for more. I need to know what happens. Need. I volunteer myself to be a test editor. Or just for you to bounce ideas off of. But please, if it's at all even remotely feasible, please finish The Winds Of Winter with haste. I've been dreaming about dragons. Thanks for reading, but more-so, thanks for WRITING. All my best, Jeni Ni

Yay for Dance!! I just ordered it also (late to the game, though sometimes latecomers make out ok, as you know ;> ).. but yes, Special Agent Pendergast has this damnable habit of coming out on top, at least for a while ;) I love your books. I also love Preston and Child, and I absolutely love their Agent Pendergast, who has been another old and wonderful friend. Let's get yours to #1 soon, but for now having two of my favorite authors up there is making me smile. If Bernard Cornwell could be at #3 I'd be in heaven! Meanwhile, I am anxiously watching my mail for the sight of dragons.

#1 two weeks in a row.
#2 two weeks in a row.
Could you next be #3 two weeks in a row?

either that, or next week Dance boldly takes #1 again :)

Well yes, I admit that it'd be a tad optimistic to think Dance'll take the top spot again next week, even if I'm glad to see the book doing so well for such a long time.

On the other hand, I think the sustained success might have something to do with the HBO-series. A ton of new people started reading the series then, and depending on how fast they read and how much spare time they have, they might not have gotten to Dance just yet, spreading out their purchases over a longer period of time.

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Here's why: I've already finished Ghost Story, but I'm only halfway through dance, and I've had and been reading both since release day. Dresden reads like a bag of twizlers: No matter how long it looks, you'll be finished with it before dinner. Your books are like a huge prime rib: You'll be digesting it for weeks.

Consequently, I can loan Ghost Story to a friend the week after it's released. I won't be loaning Dance out until September at this rate. So my friends have to get their own copy.

In B&N's that I work you've been in the top spot since the book came out. So there's that.

I won't be able to help you out here. With all the hoopla surrounding "Dragons" I decided to check out this "Song of Ice and Fire" saga everyone's talking about. I just bought book three today. Probably won't get to the final book for a while.

And you deserve it! Thank you for writing and releasing this book!

Still number one in my book, sir! Halfway through and loving every page of it.

You go, George!

Well, you're still #1 on the LA Times list! That makes it 3 weeks running, I think.

There is not enough accolades, nor esteem that can be given you. Thank you for such a wonderfully written story. I hope that you are enjoying this period of time because you truly deserve it. I will say however that reading this book feels the equivalent of reading The Fellowship of the Rings without being able to immediately follow up with the Two Towers. Even so, it is brilliantly written. Thanks for the love and the detail that you weave together in this series, and I will be (almost) patiently awaiting your next installment.

Congratulations! My daughter loves the HBO series so she is reading the books now. I'm sure you are picking up lots of readers that way. (I told my daughter the books were better, and she agrees).

Grand success! Congrats!

On the mass market paperback list, you currently have spots 2, 3, 7, and 12. [Darn you to the Stranger and/or the Others for taking the top spot, John Grisham!] I don't think, from a quick scan, that any other author has multiple entries in the top 20 on that list.

I loved Dance. Excellent work, sir. Never before have I been so engaged by a work of fiction; your world has even invaded my dreams. I've never been a careful reader before, but I find that this series compels me to be one. Thank you.

I've just finished the book. I right now I think I don't like you very much... Your books always leave me with this bitter-sweet taste in my mouth, yearning and dreading the next one, not knowing what more mischiefs are you up to. But I should be masochist because I have enjoyed every step of the journey.

Congratulations! I'd already bought this book on Kindle and devoured it BUT today I just bought the giant, tangible, I can sniff the pages and use a book mark, hardcover book! Probably doesn't make sense but I'm so happy. Also, I supported my local bookstore.

I just saw something of interest on Netflix. A movie called Alexander Nevsky is like a Russian version of Ivanhoe.