Robert Jordan is gone
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To add my 2 cents.
I have heard a lot of people bash Robert Jordan, and complain about some of the books, and I have to admit that at times I could get frustrated at the books but it comes down to this. He envisioned this great world, than many of us as role-players have done. He didn't keep it there in his head though, where it was all his. He wrote down the story on paper, and shared his personal place with all of us. He opened it up to criticism, and complaint. He allowed editors to mess with it, and publishers to mess with it. After all of that, many of us could spend an hour reading his word and be taken away from what was going on in our lives and share this place if his imagination. For that, I add him to my list of great people. He dosen't have to be a great writer (though I think he is). The fact that he worked hard so that we could have a peice of this place is enough for me. I never met him, but I will miss him and his stories. I wish his family well. I wish him peace in whatever form he is in now.
I have heard a lot of people bash Robert Jordan, and complain about some of the books, and I have to admit that at times I could get frustrated at the books but it comes down to this. He envisioned this great world, than many of us as role-players have done. He didn't keep it there in his head though, where it was all his. He wrote down the story on paper, and shared his personal place with all of us. He opened it up to criticism, and complaint. He allowed editors to mess with it, and publishers to mess with it. After all of that, many of us could spend an hour reading his word and be taken away from what was going on in our lives and share this place if his imagination. For that, I add him to my list of great people. He dosen't have to be a great writer (though I think he is). The fact that he worked hard so that we could have a peice of this place is enough for me. I never met him, but I will miss him and his stories. I wish his family well. I wish him peace in whatever form he is in now.
Cthulhudrew
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Felon said:
I think it has more to do with answering a lot of unanswered questions than necessarily wanting a conclusion, if it makes sense my splitting hairs that way.
In comic book lingo, it's like Claremont's X-Men- how many plots did that guy drop during his extensive run that he never got back to before he left the title in the 90s, and people wanted answers to for ages (some of which still are dangling).
My favorite was where he had Havok and Lorna discover a Brood ship and return to the X-Men, but not mention the thing again for something like 5 or 6 years down the road. It's the frickin' brood, man! Good thing they apparently weren't very hungry that entire time...
James Heard
Explorer
I think there's a difference between telling lots of little stories and not finishing them and telling one single overshadowing story arc with lots of little components and not finishing them in terms of fiction satisfaction. I certainly hope that the Jordan estate can enlist someone to write the final portion of the series, but to "write in the style of Robert Jordan" is really a heck of a burden for anyone. I waffle on the quality, but I don't think anyone can deny that the man could put ink to the page like nobody's business. That's not an undertaking you plop in the lap of amateur writers I don't think, especially if the notes really indicate, as Jordan apparently confided, that the final manuscript should be 1500 pages long...
Krug
Newshound
Guardian's really late obit: http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2192889,00.html
