Robert Jordan's Death

I heard the news today on the radio that the death of one of my beloved authors occurred yesterday, Robert Jordan, Jame Rigney Jr. I was all to aware of the illness that he was fighting and that his eventual end might come sooner than expected. Yet, the actual shock of hearing about his death is still one that is reverberating through out my very core.

I first read the Eye of the World when I was a sophomore in high school and was immediately a fan forever. The size and scope of the overall story that was being written was absolutely breathtaking and mind blowing and it continued to amaze me with each book. It is because of stories and characters like those found in the work of Jordan that eventually make me decide that I too wished to create characters and stories of my own and put them into such grand circumstances as those found in Jordan's work.

His works have had a profound influence on me and he will be greatly missed.