Robert Jordan died.
 

Per his semi-official blog at dragonmount , he passed today.

For fantasy readers, a lot of us read Jordan, then moved on during the interminable waits between books, but he was a good writer. Can't believe that, unless it is ghostwritten from his notes (probably a given), that I won't get to read 'Memory of Light' as the author originally intended it.

Obviously my sympathies lie with his family and friends. I was thinking about it, and I realized I've been reading his books since I was in the 7th grade, for over a decade. I guess I'm lucky that I decided to goto a book reading of his for his last book, and to get it signed by him.

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who?

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Did he ever finish the wheel of time series?

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Did he ever finish the wheel of time series?

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He did not, though he was working on the final book in the past months. Not sure how far along in the process he was.

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Oh god no. I actually feel kinda sick to my stomach.

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this [censored] sucks

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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.

I was smart enough to drop the series at book ten, realizing the author would die before ever drawing the story to a close.

SpaceAce

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He did not, though he was working on the final book in the past months. Not sure how far along in the process he was.

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He'd been working on the "last" book for at least four books.

SpaceAce

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Wiki

Should provide a general overview of who he was, exactly.