"Oh, I thought I was in trouble for a second."
Posted on 09/17/2007 10:52:38 AM PDT by Domandred
Author Robert Jordan, whose "Wheel of Time" series of fantasy novels sold millions of copies, has died of a rare blood disease, his aide said Monday. He was 58.
Jordan, whose real name was James Oliver Rigney Jr., died Sunday at the Medical University of South Carolina of complications from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy, his personal assistant, Maria Simons, said. The disease attacks the body's major organs; in Jordan's case, it caused the walls of his heart to thicken.
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Yes, I liked the first few of the novels...
However, as the story lines continued to diverge, and diverge, and diverge...
well, I lost interest.
"Oh, I thought I was in trouble for a second."
The “Wheel of Fortune” author is already dead...........
Yeah - I’ve read a few of his books. I usually enjoyed them. Those were the days before the TSR/Dungeon & Dragons ‘novels’ swamped the bookstore fantasy shelves.
Doh! I enjoyed his WoT series. No, not the War on Terror... Sad news.
Yeah, the ratings aren’t what they used to be.
/sarc :O)
Sad news. The Wheel of Time series started out tremendously, but fizzled after book 3 IMO.
Boethius?
My hubby will be disappointed to hear this. :(
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”
Totally agree. I read up through the 6th or 7th (lost track) before I stopped reading them. Somewhere at that point they got boring & irrelevant, full of pointless, rambling character introspection with almost no story line. The first 2 or 3 in particular were really good though.
Him too.........But I was referring to Merv Griffinus........
Did he contract this disease in the hospital?
Ping
Just thought you might want to know.
Too bad. Even if his plots were lame and his characters worse.
May the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.
...And excessively long for no particular reason.
That said, he did leave his mark on SF and it's too bad he didn't finish the 12th book. At least his works would have been "complete" despite the loss of focus around book 7 on through to 10. I guess his contribution to the pattern of ages is complete and the very end of his thread frayed a little.
Prayers to his family.
I think he shoulda stopped after three books, but that’s just me.
I had the impression that he wrote the first one, in which (at least) I got the impression that the protagonist killed THE bad guy,
then thought - “hey, I could stretch this thing out considerably...”
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