The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend...
...Robert Jordan is dead.
For those of you who don't know who he was, Jordan wrote the Wheel of Time fantasy series. This is one of my all-time favourite series of all time; the characters were incredibly well drawn, the world he created was rich and detailed and real, and the plot was convoluted and complex without being either repetitive or ridiculous. In short, Jordan could write, and when he did he created a world and characters that I loved very much.
I started reading the Wheel of Time books nearly ten years ago. The series is eleven books long, with a twelfth book that's sort of a prequel, and each book is somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 pages. When I started reading them, the seventh book had just come out, and I've waited impatiently through each of the two-year periods that existed between books eight through eleven. Sadly, Jordan died before finishing book twelve. I am truly saddened by the death of this talented and brilliant author.
(as a more selfish aside, I'd like to say how incredibly fucking upset I am that he didn't get the chance to finish the series. I've been invested in these books for ten years, and now I'll never know what happened. Even if someone else finishes it, it will not be the same.)
For those of you who don't know who he was, Jordan wrote the Wheel of Time fantasy series. This is one of my all-time favourite series of all time; the characters were incredibly well drawn, the world he created was rich and detailed and real, and the plot was convoluted and complex without being either repetitive or ridiculous. In short, Jordan could write, and when he did he created a world and characters that I loved very much.
I started reading the Wheel of Time books nearly ten years ago. The series is eleven books long, with a twelfth book that's sort of a prequel, and each book is somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 pages. When I started reading them, the seventh book had just come out, and I've waited impatiently through each of the two-year periods that existed between books eight through eleven. Sadly, Jordan died before finishing book twelve. I am truly saddened by the death of this talented and brilliant author.
(as a more selfish aside, I'd like to say how incredibly fucking upset I am that he didn't get the chance to finish the series. I've been invested in these books for ten years, and now I'll never know what happened. Even if someone else finishes it, it will not be the same.)