RIP Robert Jordan

Lannie · **on:** September 17, 2007, 08:26:58 AM

He died September 16, 2007 from complications from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (cardiac amyloidosis).
Guess we'll never know now how the series ends...

Julius · **Reply #1 on:** September 17, 2007, 08:31:29 AM

http://forum.fantasy-freak.com/viewtopic.php?id=11233

We're told someone will finish it...

The Artist Formerly Known As Genome · **Reply #2 on:** September 17, 2007, 09:02:14 AM

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Then again, he apparently finished the main storyline, so I guess we'll know still.

Aimless · **Reply #3 on:** September 17, 2007, 03:35:14 PM

Everyone knows to what a [ridiculously] great extent his books shaped my life.

Today, I am sad

Soma · **Reply #4 on:** September 17, 2007, 04:20:21 PM

It's not even his real name!!

Can someone just give me the gist of this WoT thing... I'm intrigued

Mordeth · **Reply #5 on:** September 17, 2007, 04:43:39 PM

rand: omg, life is so awful. heroes have it so much easier in the books. I wish I was more like matt and perrin, they know how to deal with women.

matt: omg, I miss playing dice in the two rivers. I wish I was more like rand and perrin.. they know how to deal with women.

Perrin: I like to hammer things! I wish I was more like matt and rand, they know how to handle women.

that's a fairly decent summary of the series so far

Thin · **Reply #6 on:** September 18, 2007, 03:02:57 AM

Nyv: Bitch bitch bitch, whine whine wine.

Avi: Stabby stab stab!

Elayne: I'm a pretty girl with blone hair.

Star · **Reply #7 on:** September 18, 2007, 03:18:28 AM

Min: I'm the only decent female RJ has ever written about. I think I'll sleep with Rand and become a mindless slut like the others! YAY!

Julius · **Reply #8 on:** September 18, 2007, 03:50:24 AM

Since when did fucking the guy you like (love) make a woman a slut?

Star · **Reply #9 on:** September 18, 2007, 05:35:04 AM

It has absolutely nothing to do with her sleeping with Rand. It was how she began acting after the fact. When we're following her side of the story, she basically said something along the lines of "Yeah, I knew I loved Rand, but I didn't want to acknowledge it for a while. Then I decided 'what the hell?' and went for it anyway." Her story, her strong sense of character crumbled to bits after that because all she did was whine about her love for Rand and blah blah blah. She was one of the only strong women in that series who didn't immediately come across as a bitch. I think that happened in book 7 or 8. I stopped reading halfway through 9. Perrin also went down hill after marrying Faille and I just couldn't take it any longer.

Mordeth · **Reply #10 on:** September 18, 2007, 03:00:52 PM

yeah, perrin lost his balls in a major way

Cthulhu · **Reply #11 on:** September 18, 2007, 03:15:23 PM

Dude, read Knife of Dreams. Perrin has the biggest fucking nutsack of any of the guys in the series.

Mordeth · **Reply #12 on:** September 18, 2007, 03:17:05 PM

clearly the others lost their sacks in a freak ashaman related accident

and I tried to get more than 100 pages in Knife of Dreams, it just wasn't happening

Rith · **Reply #13 on:** June 13, 2008, 10:02:32 PM

I just went back an re-read Eye of the World. That really is a masterful book, and i remember now why i started reading the series, and why i have stuck with it for all this time. The majority of people on this forum are here because of WoT, and Eye of the World made me understand why again. Looking throughout the whole series, i now understand a little better why things have changed as they did, plotlines bloating out of control as new threads were added with each book, because you have to have something new to fill those 900 pages. I mean, the same thing happened to Martin, and he was heralded as "The New Hotness". Jordan is still my prime influence and inspiration along with Tolkien when it some to writing, and i also learned to stick to the Trilogy format from seeing what happens otherwise.

AshtrayMonument · **Reply #14 on:** June 14, 2008, 11:33:18 AM

Erikson manages to juggle about 17 times the amount of characters and plotlines without fucking it up like Jordan did.

Mordeth · **Reply #15 on:** June 14, 2008, 11:56:52 AM

as do the writers of home & away

The new Olli (with hair) · **Reply #16 on:** June 14, 2008, 12:08:10 PM

All Fantasy is shit writing. Just enjoy the stupidity of it without arguing over who sucks less.

AshtrayMonument · **Reply #17 on:** June 14, 2008, 06:55:01 PM

It's not exactly Dostoevsky but there are definitely some decent reads to be had.

Soma · **Reply #18 on:** June 15, 2008, 01:19:34 PM

I tried getting into a few fantasy series but it never happened... most of it just seems to involve really long walks in shitty weather

Julius · **Reply #19 on:** June 16, 2008, 02:31:14 PM

Quote from: AshtrayMonument

Erikson manages to juggle about 17 times the amount of characters and plotlines without fucking it up like Jordan did.

omg

Just picked up Reaper's Gale, and read the Dramatis Personae... I don't think I even need to read the book, I know it's going to be good.

Olli · **Reply #20 on:** June 19, 2008, 03:43:56 AM

Quote from: Soma

I tried getting into a few fantasy series but it never happened...

Drugs just kills your attention span

mahiro · **Reply #21 on:** September 06, 2008, 11:44:41 PM

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Mattias · **Reply #22 on:** September 07, 2008, 12:33:39 PM

ok, so he was a knife nerd... big surprise there.