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NilsG replied
Non whisky topics is ok for guys like you who've contributed to connosr so much, you've earned the right to post about low fat milk if you want according to me.
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systemdown replied
@SquidgyAsh Fantastic tribute to Robert Jordan. I'm looking forward to reading the final book of the Wheel of Time, but in the same way that one hesitates to open a whisky that has had great expectations placed upon it, I will approach it with reverence and will savour the experience. Cheers.
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SquidgyAsh replied
@NilsG Thank you very much for the kind words my friend :) It's very nice to hear that my contributions, however small, are appreciated. Connosr is the kind of place that it is due to all the awesome guys like you and too many others to name.
However I promise that I won't post anything about low fat milk :D
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SquidgyAsh replied
@systemdown Thanks mate! After so many years in the waiting I was honestly puzzled and somewhat worried on how the series would have been finished. You can see Brandon Sanderson's hand in the differences in writing style, but he did a brilliant job in finishing the series and yeah, just unbelievable. Please forgive my semi speechlessness. I won't say anymore for ruining the book, but I look forward to chatting about it with you once you've finished the series.
Excellent analogy btw :)
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valuewhisky replied
Dude, I LOVE The Wheel of Time. Of my hobbies, I think that WoT is the only thing I like more than whisky! My idea of a perfect evening is basically plunking down in a quiet room with the Wheel of Time and a generous pour of whisky. I only discovered the books around 2008 after Jordan's death, but since then I've read through the series a full three times, which is a lot considering I started this last readthrough Jan. 2012 in anticipation for the release of the final book (timing was perfect by the way, finished book 13 a week before the final book came out).
I thought the final book was great, and I think that Sanderson did an outstanding job. The final book was extremely difficult to put down - the whole thing was like the climax so in that sense it was a little draining. I felt sad when some beloved characters died. Then, for a few days after I finished reading it, I was a bit melancholy. Eventually I realized that it wasn't the book that did this to me, but simply the fact that it's over. I had been so invested in these characters and adventures, that having it end was like having a part of me taken away. So yeah, they did a great job closing it out, but I'm very sad that it's over now. I'm looking forward to the rest of Sanderson's Stormlight Archives, but I can't imagine anything will ever replace WoT.
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This discussion isn't whisky based at all and if this offends anyone, my sincerest apologies, please forgive me.
I've finally finished a series by a beloved author, someone who has kept me up late at night and woken me early in the morning, and someone who is sadly passed away. Once more please forgive the nonwhisky nature of this post.
Those who follow me on Facebook will recognize the following passages as I've just posted them on there.
23 years in the reading, 23 years of adventure, hopes, fears, excitement and tears. I've just finished Robert Jordan's last book in the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, written by Brandon Sanderson after Robert Jordan's death on September 16, 2007.
Many people consider Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, or The Hobbit to be the books that rewrote the Fantasy genre and in a way they were, they set the stage for things to come.
However after the last 23 years, 14 books and thousands of pages that have drawn me and millions more into a world so complex, so deep, that for many lovers of the written word, the world will never be the same.
I'm left with a sense of lose, of closure, of hope and elation which only the greatest authors can conjure in their works, and behind it all a sense, almost a memory of tears shed over the course of this journey.
This journey where I've made friends, lost friends, felt moments of unbelievable hope and moments of unbearable fear. This journey that Robert Jordan took me and so many like me on.
When it came out that he was terminally ill and his series was so far from completion many worried, we'd never know how things turned out, but after thousands of pages of notes and hundreds of hours of recorded audio tapes left for those who would follow, Robert Jordan didn't let his fans down, he was constant and out of the thousands of books I've read over the course of my life, the hundreds of series of books I've read, he is the only author I've ever read who never contradicted himself as any point, even after dozens of rereadings, never a flaw for me to find.
I mourned his death on September 16, 2007 and can tell you to the minute where I was, what I was doing and who I was doing it with, and the hours that followed. I grieved as many did, knowing that a special light had been lost in the world, knowing that somehow even though this was a man many of us had never met, the world was a little more dimmer, a little less vibrant, now that he wasn't there.
As the last page turns and the covers close I know that I've lost a cherished old friend, a beloved one, one who I knew oh so well. And one who through the last part of our journey managed to surprise me again and again, making me fear for them, hope for them, experience joy, shame, and grief for them. A friend who I'll never eagerly await to say hello to again, to get ready to walk hand in hand with along another journey, another adventure, because he is no longer there. The journey has ended.
With this my longest Facebook post ever I say thank you to Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson for completing the epic work of the Wheel of Time, for allowing me to share in their journey and adventure. Robert Jordan, my friend whom you never knew, Thank You. You may be gone, but never forgotten.
Raises a glass of Ardbeg Galileo in honor of Robert Jordan and the Wheel of Time