So Robert Jordan is dead.

I lost interest in WoT after Winter's Heart. After the big thing at the end of that book, I had high hopes. He then spends the entirety of the next book all but completely ignoring the big thing at the end of Winter's Heart. Supremely frustrating. When the next book came out, my brother asked me if I had read it yet, my 100% true response was: "I didn't even make it through the blurb on the flap."
 
Garrette said:
I'd say it's far too late for him to get better. He's been at it too long with nothing of quality at all to show for it.

The Belgariad should have been enough to have him run out of town.
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Ah, the Belgariad was fun when I was much younger. My tastes are a little more sophisticated now (Or maybe I just hope they are? Or maybe I'm just more pretentious) but back then when I was a kid, it had me hooked.


WRT Jordan - I think I read the first one and kind of enjoyed it, but then I saw the long, long list of books stretching out into infinity with not a single thread resolved, just more and more and more things to remember until the author decided that he'd written enough. Clearly he has done so now.

These days I like consise much more than verbose - The Old Man and the Sea being a prime example.
 
Garrette said:
I'd say it's far too late for him to get better. He's been at it too long with nothing of quality at all to show for it.

The Belgariad should have been enough to have him run out of town.
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Ah, the Belgariad was fun when I was much younger. My tastes are a little more sophisticated now (Or maybe I just hope they are? Or maybe I'm just more pretentious) but back then when I was a kid, it had me hooked.


WRT Jordan - I think I read the first one and kind of enjoyed it, but then I saw the long, long list of books stretching out into infinity with not a single thread resolved, just more and more and more things to remember until the author decided that he'd written enough. Clearly he has done so now.

These days I like consise much more than verbose - The Old Man and the Sea being a prime example.
 
I read the Belgariad when I was in Jr. high, I think. I thought it was fantastic. Then I looked at it again in college and went "Blagh." Eddings 0, Dostoevsky, 3 (The Idiot, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov for those keeping count.) Its amazing how a little age and education reduced my taste for modern fantasy reading.
 
At least Jordan won't annoy some of the people here with new books anymore. :rolleyes:
 
Andronicus said:
I read the Belgariad when I was in Jr. high, I think. I thought it was fantastic. Then I looked at it again in college and went "Blagh." Eddings 0, Dostoevsky, 3 (The Idiot, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov for those keeping count.) Its amazing how a little age and education reduced my taste for modern fantasy reading.
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I have to say age(and a lack of education) hasn't dulled my appetite for a good fantasy novel. Pratchett gets purchased when published in Hardback form, and I still think (and I'm prepared to get shot down here) that Magician is fantastic, and David Gemmell (before he died, of course) had a way with words and concise story telling that really appeals to me.

What age has done is add diversity, stuff other than fantasy (which was my staple from 10 to 21) but these days it's less and less fiction and more and more 'pop-science' looks far more intellectual on the tube, even if I don't understand half of what I'm reading:))

(Edited because I misspelt 'intellectual' which would have been okay if I'd meant it in a cool, ironic way. I didn't)
 
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Raymond Feist's Magician? I read the first four books or so (though a Darkness at Sethanon - thank you Amazon for the quick reminder). I liked them much more than the Belgariad.
 
Andronicus said:
Raymond Feist's Magician? I read the first four books or so (though a Darkness at Sethanon - thank you Amazon for the quick reminder). I liked them much more than the Belgariad.
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Well I think they're a little more sophisticated than Edding's works.

I have to say though, it's not really worth worrying about anything past Sethanon.

But, as Morrigan proves, it's all down to personal taste really.
 
I just found out about Jordan today, and I've been following his illness for a year and change. I was really hoping he'd pull out of it for more than my own selfish reasons but alas, it was not to be. I had also heard that he left plenty of notes, dictations and the like to finish up the series. At least there's that.

RIP RJ.
 
Andronicus said:
I read the Belgariad when I was in Jr. high, I think. I thought it was fantastic. Then I looked at it again in college and went "Blagh." Eddings 0, Dostoevsky, 3 (The Idiot, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov for those keeping count.) Its amazing how a little age and education reduced my taste for modern fantasy reading.
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I like to think that I'm educated, but I didn't mind the Belgariad last time I re-read it, and I couldn't stand Dostoevsky even after getting my PhD. After 10 chapters or so, I decided the term "The Idiot" was not actually the title of the book, but a description of the fellow suckered into buying the thing.

Now Michael Moorcock- now those are books that cannot be re-read ten years after first enjoying them.
 
TJ said:
I just found out about Jordan today, and I've been following his illness for a year and change. I was really hoping he'd pull out of it for more than my own selfish reasons but alas, it was not to be. I had also heard that he left plenty of notes, dictations and the like to finish up the series. At least there's that.

RIP RJ.
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Hopefully he left instructions for more cowbell.
 
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