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Message: <blockquote data-quote="+5 Keyboard!" data-source="post: 3779173" data-attributes="member: 48586">That was beautiful, man.I started reading the series back in 1991 (or was it '92?) when my younger brother dropped his copy of The Eye of the World on the table in front of me and said, "You've got to read this book!" I did and have been hopelessly hooked ever since. About the time of the 4th book in the series I wrote Mr. Rigney (aka Robert Jordan) my one and only fan letter I've ever written. I was pleasantly surprised to get a return letter from him about a month later and blown away by his down to earth demeanor.I have to admit that at times I was frustrated at the snail's pace at which each book was being released and the lack of any kind of mention of some of the characters in entire books in the series. But it was the frustration of a person completely caught up in the world and characters that Mr. Rigney had created and feverishly hungering for more. That was the gift he had. Contrary to what some people who consider themselves authorities on literature have said about him, James Oliver Rigney will one day be hailed as one of the greatest fantasy fiction writers since Tolkein (and I dare say, even better than him in a lot of ways, say what you will).James Oliver Rigney, Jr. you were and still are a literary hero to me. Your books filled the vacuum in many areas of my life in which I desperately needed to get away from reality and the crap I was sloughing through at the time. Your writing inspired me and has influenced my own writing style in many ways. Thank you! God speed! You will be missed.</blockquote>

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