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."

Comments

Re:a blessing on readers of Wheel of time

[MutualDisdain]

Let's analyze a few aspects of your post:

1) It was anonymous.

That means that even though Jordan had the balls to place his pen name on the 11 books in the series, you lack the nuts to do the same for one short post.

2) It critiqued an 11 book series with knowledge obtained from reading them.

That means that despite the writing being, "disjointed," and "dragging" in your opinion, after book 5 you continued to read for 6 more books. That either makes you a moron, or a disingenuous liar.

No person in their right mind would continue reading a series of books that they hated, by an author who's writing style irked them so much.

3) You have disrespected the dead.

I know, in these modern times we live in, the dead are just proper nouns on the screen, and no one gets hurt... right? What happens when the family of the author reads your trite and useless comments at the top of the replies to this story?

Are life and death so trivial to you that you have to wield elitism at the dead? Are you really overcompensating that much? I'll let you figure that one out.

My guess is that you are one of those people who think, "Hey, I could write. I could write if I could just find the time and will to sit down and do it." You probably have a negative comment to say about every movie you see, every tv show that you watch, and every book that you read. You think you have been gifted by some divine ability to discern the plot holes, and flaws in every narratives...

Well guess what.... Its all in your head. Yet another successful author has died, yet another year has passed, and you have accomplished nothing but trolling yet another message board.

Perhaps you need to get over your fear of "doing" and actually try to create something that isn't a critique for once. Why don't you put yourself out there for the masses to chew on for a while, and see if you are the God given gift your ego claims you to be.

In other words, shit or get off the pot. Stop being a worthless critic, and do something that has some value to society. Anyone can be a self important asshole, but are you brave enough to take a few turds in the face for posterity?

Re:a blessing on readers of Wheel of time

[19thNervousBreakdown]

Oh, shut up. The series is my favorite ever, and in my opinon amazing even when it lost direction, but that was funny. Go soak your head.

Re:a blessing on readers of Wheel of time

[jesdynf]

Problem here is that I do know both the heart *and* mind of one of Jordan's (former) readers. And the phrase "widely understood to be true" is basically not subject to debate; the *number* of people who think the books are crap can be discussed, and the degree to which they are perceived by these people to be crap is open to interpretation, but they exist and there's a friggin' lot of them, which is probably why the man has become synonymous with -- why am I explaining? You know the faults better than I do, I'm sure.

Anyways. All the three-dollar words in the world aren't going to change the basic fact that there's a lot of people who (a) didn't like him, (b) cheerfully insult his most notable published work, (c) want their money back, (d) post here, and (e) do not appear to be afraid of your censure. Deal.