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Fantasy Author Robert Jordan Passes Away
willith writes "James Oliver Rigney Jr, author of the long-running fantasy series The Wheel of Time and better known to millions of fans by the pen name Robert Jordan, died on 16 Sept 2007 from cardiac amyloidosis. Jordan announced he had been diagnosed with the disease in March 2006 and vowed to beat the odds, but determination and gumption sometimes just aren't enough in the face of a disease with a median survival time of just over two years. Jordan was in the process of writing the twelfth and final book in the Wheel of Time series, A Memory of Light, but the book was not slated for release until 2009 and is still incomplete. While there is hope that the book will still be finished from Jordan's notes, this is devastating news to all of us who have been reading the series since 1990."
lol at everyone who read wheel of time!
tragedy, but maybe Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert will rape the Wheel of Time with a final installament.
first!
no thanks
Book twelve will be exactly the same as the other eleven books. If you've read one you've read them all. He should have stopped at seven as initially planned, but no, he had to carry on trying to milk the dead cow -- no doubt he was going to announce that he'd changed his mind and was going to make the series fifteen books long...
Yet another self-important SlashDot post in which the writer elevates himself to the position of critic. This time the elitist pretends that despite accomplishing nothing of import within the confines of his own life, that he is qualified to tear down the accomplishments of another.
Here's a news flash for you. Yet another year has passed and you are still not published. Robert Jordan succeeded while you continue to fail.
When publishers start giving million dollar advances to people who troll message boards in search of self-confidence, shoot me a gloating private message. Until then, you might want to consider what it will be like 20 years from now when absolutely nothing will have changed in your life... Yes, you will still be working the same mediocre IT job...
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Even HE got tired of them.
Don't act like a cynical and presumptuous blowhard who presents his opinions as being morally absolute.
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He didn't succeed, he merely made money. Considering he's an author, not even a lot of money. The books were crap, this was widely understood. Deal.
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I'm not acting. I really am the person you describe. I have an opinion, and it is absolutely what I believe. I hate elitists, and I love to see them fall on their faces.
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Is it just me or is /. really struggling for content these days? Carrying the obit of, and lets face it, a very mediocre fantasy author is hardly "Stuff that Matters". Sad and tragic yes but Robert Jordan?
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series was a bloated, padded, self indulgent money spinning exercise. I personally couldn't make it past book 4 as the sheer frustration at his tendency to "make it up as he went along" approach left me tired, bored and longing for a Unix manual which would have least have had an ending! Anyone who is striving to read all that dross must be a masochist, bored, insane or possibly all 3.
Mod me down as a troll or flaimbait if you must but lets try to get a grip on the editorial section here ppl. "Stuff that matters" not "Stiff that doesent matter"
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
If you think family and friends of Jordan aren't reading the web, and don't subscribe to SlashDot, then you are living in a deluded world. This is called the internet for a reason, and that is because it allows absolutely everyone in the world to connect and interact. You may think this is a bubble in which it is safe to disrespect a good man on the eve of his death, but you might as well have laughed at that joke in his widow's face.
I'm not the overseer of morality here. I just finally snappped tonight. After seeing one too many pompous Slashdot assholes once again make a heartless joke at the expense of others.
You're entitled to believe that making a parody of a man's eulogy on his death bed is appropriate, but most sensible and respectful people have the heart to let the family grieve before they take baseball bats to a man's remaining presence on earth. That presence is the work he did while he was still alive...
Think about it and have a good night.
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This fascination with "proper burial" intrigues me. He's dead. Inanimate matter with no more consciousness than a rock. Not human anymore. How does a burial change that?
If he explores all forms and substances Straight homeward to their symbol-essences; He shall not die.
America voted for Bush. Twice. I didn't need a majority and a PoliSci degree to be right then, and I don't need a majority and a three-novel book deal to be right now.
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