Wheel Of Time Ends One Book Short?

[Dubh Aingeal]

James Oliver Rigney Jr, author of the long-running fantasy series The Wheel of Time and better known to millions of fans by the pen name Robert Jordan, died on 16 Sept 2007 from cardiac amyloidosis. Jordan announced he had been diagnosed with the disease in March 2006 and vowed to beat the odds, but determination and gumption sometimes just aren't enough in the face of a disease with a median survival time of just over two years. Jordan was in the process of writing the twelfth and final book in the Wheel of Time series, A Memory of Light, but the book was not slated for release until 2009 and is still incomplete. While there is hope that the book will still be finished from Jordan's notes, this is devastating news to all of us who have been reading the series since 1990.

[Head Wreck]

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[freydis]

David will take one look at this news and say......

"Told ya so."

[Head Wreck]

i know, another friend i have said along the lines of "you'll be gutted if he dies before he finishes"

[freydis]

i know, another friend i have said along the lines of "you'll be gutted if he dies before he finishes"

Yeah, David told me he refused to even start on the series because of this. So i know im going to hear about it.....

[phee]

Yeah, David told me he refused to even start on the series because of this. So i know im going to hear about it.....

David and I have a lot in common

[freydis]

David and I have a lot in common

What, you're going to tell me "I told you so", too?

[Head Wreck]

phee knows he would have become addicted just like british phee did.

[n0Mad]

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp09172007.shtml

It's funnier if you've been following the comic for a while and are familiar with the character, but still good nonetheless.

[Shade Everdark]

I'm very tempted to say, purely from the perspective of a reader of the story, "Good riddance."

I would have kept reading until he was done, but the series should damn well have finished a book or two ago. Instead, way too much nothing happened after book five.

I just hope George R.R. Martin doesn't end up the same way with his books. Feast for Crows has a little flavor of that too many peripheral characters and not enough there there.

[Burrich1]

I got tired of having to re-read the entire series every other year when a new book came out. Decided I would just read them all when he was done writting them. This was about 7 years ago. Glad I made that choice now.