Thank goodness I finished mine!

[rispacooper]

So I'm behind the times but I just found out that fantasy author Robert Jordan died in September, which is sad because he never finished his epic series, and that series, "The Wheel of Time" had a lot of influence on me and what I wrote (oh like 10 years ago). I don't read fantasy now, and he's mostly why.

Because of course, he also extended his series into a monster for no real reason to the point where I stopped reading. And all his female characters were the same...and annoying. And he ripped off every fantasy series he could--seriously--and then came down hard on fanfiction writers, accusing them of making money off his work (which was just fucking insane) and then got seriously aggro about teh gay fanfiction, though hot girl-on-girl action was apparently okay.

But he did create Matrim Cauthon, a cross between Ray Kowalski and Jack Sparrow, and sex on a stick I might add, so I will give him props for that. And I will say, the first 6 books or so were serious entertainment. Someday I must write a gay epic just like it. I think I will dedicate it to him.

AND...I gotta say. A long time ago, for Kittie, I wrote Rand/Mat slash that I never posted for fear of him coming down like "the hammer of God" as he always threatened.

Anyone want to read it now?

Comments

[paraxdisepink.livejournal.com]

Mat was cool until about book 11, then he turned into a serious misogynistic punk. It's not the uptight women that ended up bothering me the most though - it's the way he treated the guys who could use the Power, like he really thought they were all monsters.

I see what happened to his books though. The first five were adventure books and I liked them, the rest he tried to get all political, like he suddenly started wondering what would happen politically if this type of person existed and it ended up shifting the focus of the story. The story never quite recovered from Moiraine dying either, the balance wasn't the same after that.

Still, I love the fantasy genre above all other things, and there's stuff to be learned from his work good and bad. I admire his ability to name stuff, and the whole tainted male half of the true source thing was interesting.

Now George R. R. Martin please don't die on me too.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_pandemonium/]

yeah, it's a monster, but it's still an entertaining monster. and I do enjoy his writing, still. and I have an amazing abaility to stick thiings out 'til the end, hell, I didn't give up on "the sword of truth" until like book.... seven? and I've read just about every dragonlance book there is. and I'm even gonna read the last HP book even though everyone says JKR got lazy and the premise of the prologue makes me nauseous. and I still watch "lost", just to see how they fit it all together in the end. but yeah. WoT is a pretty little monster.

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

I think it wasn't even that so much as I just couldn't take his women anymore. They started out cool and interesting and then somewhere along the line...about the time when women who lost their temper--women who had previously run countries or been trained to run countries-- were treated like children and it was all ok.

Suddenly everything turned into a John Wayne movie.

(I love John Wayne movies, btw, but he llieks to spank his female costars, and not in the fun way).

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

Moiraine and Mat....they are not OTP...but that is some twisted hot right there.

Moiraine watching Rand and Mat? Even better.

[aidannwn.livejournal.com]

sory for poking nose in but I saw the topic and couldn't help myself. Er---He died. I didn't know that...though I only like the WoT upto about nine. By then it was mostly prose, not enough action and people getting in weird situations to keep the plot running. You know, thoes tv series where they run out of ideas so gives the chacter anmesia so he /she can repeat his mistakes all over again. But I loved the first few books and it got me adicted...though never did like the three wives concept. :0)

Oh well...too bad it won't be finished though. Any idea if anyone else is picking it up.

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

I think he was working with people toward the end, at least from what I've read, to ensure the last book gets out there. I haven't read like the last three or four though, and even before then I was just skimming to the parts with Mat and the few others characters I still liked.