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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."
And I'm pretty sure it wasn't Moridin.
Card? It must really have gotten pretty bad.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
"In the spirit of the man, friends and family of the deceased have requested that his eulogy be tedious and poorly written."
Then the winter came, and the Grasshopper died. And the Octopus ate all his acorns. Also, he got a racecar.
If Card took the helm, 60% of the final book would involve Olver as the protagonist, and Rand would become a thinly veiled allegory of Joseph Smith.
The curse of buying from a supplier with a single-source. If you're smart enough to buy a plain beige box made of parts from 30 low-bidders, that can run a variety of operating systems, you should be smart enough to buy novels written the same way. That way, if once of the writers dies, any number of other low-bidders can just pick up where he/she left off
Honestly, buying a novel from a series written by a single writer is like buying a Mac. Sure, the writing might be a little better than if it were written as a collaboration, but it's TOTAL VENDOR LOCK-IN!
Never buy a book from a series unless it has at least 3 authors!
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
I agree with you. I just cant decide if that would be better or worse :)
Rule #1 of reading Tolkien: Skip the poetry.
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