I meant to write this yesterday, but in a way I think I was hoping it wasn’t true. But sadly it is. This is my saying good bye post to a wonderful author, one that has left me on the edge of my seat many times waiting for the next book..
I was first handed one of his books back in 2000, I tried and tried to sit and read the book, I even managed to get through book one, but books two and three took me twice as long as it normally takes me to read even a book of that length. In a way, I was devastated because the books were good, but the detail would almost bore me because at the time, I didn’t believe in skimming books. So I packed the books up and gave them back to the friend that lent them to me. I said farewell to a good series, thinking there was no way I could ever fully get into them.
About 6 months or so after marring Kevin, running out of my own books to read during the day, I skimmed Kevin’s books and found he also had the series, and I saw there were much more to the series then just books one, two, and three…. So I sat down and tried once again to read the books. I got through book one again without a problem, falling in love with the characters one more time. Book two I struggled with, but made it through, by book three, I perfected the art of skimming, but always found myself rereading what I just skimmed because somewhere in the mass amounts of pages of details, there was an important part of the scenery that I missed. I found reading this way was the best way for me to read these books.
I got so engrossed in these books that I would force myself to stay awake to read that last part of the chapter, just to read that next page. These books took over my love of so many other books, they became my number one priority, to read up to the last published book. Then I found out another book in the series was due to come out, so now I really had to catch up. I went on a reading bing, falling more and more in love with the characters, their struggles, their faults, their strengths.
Every so often I would go on a reading bing on these books, because reading them one after another gave another view to the story, you recall details fresher, you remember the feelings… That is what it took to get through these books, the pure emotions.
Book eleven and a prelude book were the last to be released. He was working on book 12 when he passed.
Robert Jordan announced in 2006 that he was “diagnosed with primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (cardiac amyloidosis).” I followed his blog for many, many, many months, mostly lost because I had just found his blog and had little to no idea who was writing half the time. I don’t remember when, but I think it was around the time my browser crashed that I lost his blog and just never bothered to look it back up. Feeling confident that he would fight with all his might and win, I didn’t think I needed to follow and get lost in the medical terms being said in the blog.
Then came yesterday. Kevin was doing his normal comic run when he came across GUComics and there was a dedication to Jordan. It had that he had died this year. I didn’t believe it and went to my computer to look his blog up. Sure enough, the last post on his blog was about his passing. I still couldn’t believe it. He passed on Sunday and I was just hearing about it?! No, there had to be a mistake. But everywhere I looked, it all said the same, that Jordan had passed.
Robert Jordan was one of the few authors that I truly loved. I love all books, but it takes a wonderful author to make me check with the customer service everytime I walked into a book store to check on his new book. He was one of those special authors. He will be forever missed in our house.
Thank you Robert Jordan for your wonderful writing and all the emotions and feelings you put into your writings.
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