Robert Jordan died.

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The Wheel of Time is by far the greatest fantasy book series I have ever read... up until about book 9. I'm sorry to hear that Robert Jordan died, but, frankly, the books were starting to suck and I was starting to resent what I felt was him milking the series far beyond the point of reasonableness.

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He obviously died like 4 books ago. They've been awful. Same thing happened to L ron Hubbard -died in middle of book 7 and man was it obvious.