Oh wow!
David Eddings Passed away! He was one of my favorite epic fantasy authors when I was a teen. While I was getting my divorce from my first husband, I coped by re-reading both of his major serieses all over again. I read the paperbacks so much that the glue came loose in the bindings, and I went out to find the hardbacks at a used book store. I still have an entire shelf in my house just for his books.