Robert Jordan

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by Alex

It sucks, though, when an author doesn't live to finish a series, even if it is one I personally didn't care for. Wasn't that the big impetus that finally got King to finish the Gunslinger saga?

It was the impetus for getting him to finish them so quickly, I think. Books 5-7 of the Dark Tower series were written and then released like in 6 month increments. It is another series that is very worthy of reading -- and again, it moved along at a much faster clip than Jordan.

SK had come |thisclose| to biting the bullet when he got hit by the car before book 5 was done, so he decided to get the damn thing over with after he looked death in the face. He wrote that experience into the Dark Tower books themselves (as well as his excellent nonfiction book "On Writing").