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# Dead? You selfish bastard!
I felt a great disturbance in the Fandom, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
I stopped actually caring about the fucking books just after Book Eight, but I kept buying and reading the books because I Had To Finish It.
And now he’s dead.
Blood and bloody ashes! Now the stupid thing will never be finished. And he’s not fucking Bach, we’re not all going to sit around in Usenet and appreciate the last book for all of – rather than despite – it being unfinished. rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan isn’t even active anymore; like all the great fandom groups on Usenet, it is just the corpse of a frog, pinned to a bench, twitching when electrical stimulus is applied.
God, for my own well-being because D will go fucking spare otherwise, I hope there are notes somewhere, bullet points or something, so that some enterprising soul can revive the corpse long enough to write an ending. Someone with some female friends, while we’re at it.
UPDATE
I suppose I should of course note – for the thousands of readers who’ll turn into haters when they see the above – that I don’t dislike RJ. Of all the authors I have met at the end of a queue, he was exceedingly pleasant and seemed to be most amused that I was getting a book signed for a girlfriend – D -and not myself. As an author, though, I think he – along with his immediate predecessors Feist and Eddings – made Fantasy fiction the viable market it is today. Which on the one things is great. On the other hand, we have those three to blame for the noxious swamp of purple prose vomited out by a legion of hacks with virility issues. Well, them and TS-fucking-R.
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# re: Dead? You selfish bastard!
There are no exemptions from the List of Shame!
Should have pulled his finger out.
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# re: Dead? You selfish bastard!
I hear that a year or so ago he sat down family members around the dinner table and over the next several hours began telling a great tale of how it all works out in the end. Notes were taken and stashed away in case of this very event.
I started reading them in 1991 I think. I may be a book behind at this point but sold them all off in 2005 when moving.
I better check the local library.
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# re: Dead? You selfish bastard!
I’ve heard that around the traps in the last twenty-four hours as well. I remember when Stephen King was hit by a van – before Dark Tower was finished – and I just knew there were no notes. And back in the day when I still thought Eddings was passable, I had been worried that he was dead when the last book of a series seemed a long time in coming out. That was the early-ninties, before the interwebs was widespread and I could have looked him up on wikipedia :- )
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