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I just saw on Dragonmount that one of my favorite fantasy authors, Robert Jordan, passed away today. He was suffering from a rare blood disease called amyloidosis.

My friend Seth introduced me to the fantasy genre around 1999 or 2000 when we were working in New Orleans. He seemed to enjoy the books I always saw him reading a lot so I decided to give it a try. We were on one of our many lunchtime trips to the bookstore and I asked him to pick out some books that he thought I would like. The ones he picked out were The Eye of the World by Jordan, Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind, and Magician: Apprentice by Raymond Feist. Of those 3, The Eye of the World was easily my favorite and I’ve read most of the books in the Wheel of Time series that it belongs to on multiple occasions. Despite whatever complaints I may have had about the progression of the series, I really enjoyed reading it and it’s a shame he won’t be around to write more books.