I want to meet Robert Jordan (that's a pen name though, his real name is James Oliver Rigney). More than any other dead person (besides Jesus, but hey, I'll do someone besides him), Jordan is the one person of whom I want to ask several questions. See, Robert Jordan is the author of my favorite book series, The Wheel of Time. The WoT series is supposed to be 12 books long, and has been going on for over twenty years. Jordan had been suffering from declining health for some time, and swore to his readers that if he died, the series died with him. Needless to say, when I first heard the news that he died a few years back, I nearly had a heart attack myself.
Thankfully though, Jordan had decided to leave the series in the hands of Brandon Sanderson. Jordan left several notes about the series, and had about 50,000 words of the twelfth book already written (he managed to finish the eleventh before his death). Although Sanderson has done a masterful job at keeping the feel of this epic high fantasy series going. Sadly though, he hasn't kept up with Jordan's humorous ankle and spanking fetishes that were always appearing throughout his series. Despite all this, I want to meet Robert Jordan and ask him any details that he didn't leave behind. I want to ask how he would've wanted it written, and whether anything differs from his vision of the series. Although thankfully, the last book has been split into three different books. The final installment of the series will be released in early 2012. I'm looking forward so much to the conclusion of what is the most epic fantasy series I've ever read, and dreading the massive ennui that will probably hang around me for weeks afterward.
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