Wheel of Time author Robert Jordan dead at 58

That's pretty sad man. I was going to start with the series pretty soon. My mom just left the first book at my house. I heard it gets so ponderous and meandering after the first several books that people were praying for an ending - some sort of pay off. I hope the devoted get what they wanted and, after 15,000+ pages (?) deserve.
 
[quote name='botticus']I know some here were fans of his books, others not, but apparently his blood disease took him before he could finish Book 12, which he intended to finally wrap up the series, given his condition. Hopefully whatever he got written will be published post-humously. RIP.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070917/ap_en_ot/obit_jordan;_ylt=AmHFdZxy9sOxWPrNl4nJCIWs0NUE[/QUOTE]

It's unfortunate. I threw in the towel about half-way through the series, so I'm not broken up about the unresolved ending, but I appreciate that once he knew his time was limited, he did his best to get to the end of the story.
 
That's so tragic! I remember seeing kids in school reading those books, but I never looked into them, for some reason. It's so sad that he had these ideas that he wanted to share, a conclusion he wanted to give to all the fans that had been with him all these years -- and yet he was unable to do it while alive. God, that's sad.
 
[quote name='utopianmachine']That's so tragic! I remember seeing kids in school reading those books, but I never looked into them, for some reason. It's so sad that he had these ideas that he wanted to share, a conclusion he wanted to give to all the fans that had been with him all these years -- and yet he was unable to do it while alive. God, that's sad.[/quote]Luckily for his fans, it looks like he planned ahead well enough:

Before his death, Jordan stated "I'm getting out notes, so if the worst actually happens, someone could finish A Memory of Light and have it end the way I want it to end." The decision whether to posthumously complete the book has been left to his wife Harriet and Tor Books president Tom Doherty.
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Wow, I've gotten through the first 5 books, in the middle of book 6 about 3 or so years ago, kept meaning to pick it back up.

Now, I'm wondering if it's worth it. Do I really want to read to catch up if there isn't some sort of an ending. I might hold out until I hear that they are posting the final book.

I have to assume that, if they don't decide to publish, they would release some of his notes, just to show how it ends.
 
I called this event something like fifteen years ago. So much so that I had him on my "death list" competition (so morbid, yet so fun).

Nothing like mortality to pinch off a hemorraging series. I hung with it for seven titles or so and said "screw it." When you can't find a way to make one of your primary characters appear for an entire 650+ page book, you lack skills.
 
I'm sad he's dead, but man his series pissed me off. I lost interest at either 7 or 8, sold all the massive hardbacks.

Hopefully someone will finish the last books for those still invested in the series.
 
Sad news, I lost interest in the series during books 6 and 7. He pissed me off turning a 6 book series into a 8 book, then 12 book, and finally working on prequels before finishing off the series.

Terry Goodkind is starting to piss me off as well for the same reason...
 
This is unbelievable. You gotta wonder if the universe was simply responding to what people thought.
I started this series like 7 years ago, and always planned to go back and finish it. I think I left off with Winter's Heart, the 9th book. My buddy was looking at my shelf and saw them all and was like," should I read this series?" and I told him hell no, because there's no way the guy finishes it before he dies.
I didn't even know he was ill, I just figured that's what I'd get for investing the time.
fuck, I can't believe this. Maybe if I wouldn't have said that, Mr. Jordan would have lived.
So blame me.
Anyway, the Wheel of Time is sort of the next evolutionary step of Tolkien, I always thought. It did drag, but that's because Jordan wanted a complete world without cracks. He wanted a reader to be able to get fully immersed without coming up for air and it was a noble effort. Poor bastard.
 
Wow. That's very sad.

I never started reading his books, specifically because I wanted him to finish the series first. Oops. I never knew he had a life-threatening bloo disease, though.

...I certainly hope his wife gives the okay for the last book to be published. He was very wise to leave notes detailing what he wanted, and he obviously must have wanted the book to be published if he died since he left behind instructions.

On another note, I never knew he was a Vietnam war veteran, either. God bless him.
 
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