Nooo! This can't be happening, Robert Jordan dies |
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Nooo! This can't be happening, Robert Jordan dies |
Sep 17 2007, 02:32 PM
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Fantasy author Jordan dies at 58
QUOTE (BBC News) Author Robert Jordan, whose was best known for the Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels has died of a rare blood disease aged 58.
Jordan - whose real name was James Oliver Rigney Junior - died at the Medical University of South Carolina. His personal assistant, Maria Simons, said the disease caused the walls of his heart to thicken. |
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Sep 17 2007, 04:29 PM
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![]() Venting Enigma ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Administrators Posts: 1,056 Joined: 8-August 07 From: 65 miles due East of the "Logic Free Zone", in Maryland, USA Member No.: 2 |
This is sad.
I'd only read a few of RJ's other works to date. I guess now I'll be buying all. -------------------- The only easy day was yesterday....
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Sep 18 2007, 11:26 AM
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![]() Advanced Venter ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 234 Joined: 17-August 07 From: NYC, USA Member No.: 34 |
That's a shame. He was a great author and I really liked his books.
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Sep 18 2007, 03:54 PM
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![]() Mods and Rockers ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 1,072 Joined: 13-August 07 From: West of the Empire State Building Member No.: 16 |
A shame. wonder if he left an unfinished symphony also?
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