Wicked Woodpecker of West Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 According to his Facebook profile: "Terry Goodkind This morning, Thursday, September 17th, we lost Terry Goodkind. It is a great loss. An unimaginable loss. It is impossible to put into few words just how amazing of a man, a husband, a writer, a friend, and a human, Terry Goodkind truly was. He is already desperately missed. We are forever grateful for him having shared his life’s work with all of us, as he was always grateful to be held in our hearts. “To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here, we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is . . . Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.” - Terry Goodkind We love you, Terry." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Unexpected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Woodpecker of West Posted September 17, 2020 Author Share Posted September 17, 2020 Feels weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Patrek Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Was he sick??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 3 minutes ago, Lord Patrek said: Was he sick??? Not much information at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 I am having many feelings. But I still don't want to kick a little girl in the jaw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 All snark and my feelings about his books and his worldview aside, I hope his family are doing OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlyaP Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Ok, I did not expect to wake up to *this* news. One of the last of the old guard of 90s big fat fantasy has sailed on. My condolences to his wife and family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 6 minutes ago, IlyaP said: Ok, I did not expect to wake up to *this* news. One of the last of the old guard of 90s big fat fantasy has sailed on. My condolences to his wife and family. Most fantasy writers who were big in the 1990s (the 1970s, for that matter) are still with us. I'd be a bit concerned if they were all dropping like flies from only twenty years ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlyaP Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Just now, Werthead said: Most fantasy writers who were big in the 1990s (the 1970s, for that matter) are still with us. I'd be a bit concerned if they were all dropping like flies from only twenty years ago! It feels like we've lost so many from that era. Eddings, Jordan, TG... (Makes me want to have Dennis McKiernan and David Farland put under protection!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlyaP Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, Chataya de Fleury said: Don’t waste a lot of breath on Eddings, dude. Oh I have *no* intention of doing that. My brain simply equates him with that particular decade, alongside several others, who were prominent at that time, if that makes sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 I don’t know how to describe how this makes me feel. People who’ve been around this board for a while know that I was not kindly disposed toward Terry Goodkind, but at the same time I felt some kind of weird connection to him. And despite generally being a bad sport about basically everything, he could sometimes be a good sport about our criticisms here. He once mailed me a Faith of the Fallen t-shirt and a signed copy of Confessor, with a funny little note attached. RIP Terry, I will genuinely miss you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonebender Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 I never got around to reading anything by him but I'll always remember seeing his books and Jordan's on the shelves of Waldenbooks and first starting to think these big fantasy series look like something that might be right up my alley. Best wishes to his family and fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightsnake Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 33 minutes ago, Myshkin said: I don’t know how to describe how this makes me feel. People who’ve been around this board for a while know that I was not kindly disposed toward Terry Goodkind, but at the same time I felt some kind of weird connection to him. And despite generally being a bad sport about basically everything, he could sometimes be a good sport about our criticisms here. He once mailed me a Faith of the Fallen t-shirt and a signed copy of Confessor, with a funny little note attached. RIP Terry, I will genuinely miss you. this is kinda how I feel. It's like how someone once decribed Michael Crichton; abhorrent viewpoints, worldview and writing, but....a strange attachment? Aye. I'll miss him in an odd way. RIP the Yeard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Patrek Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 The Lemmings of Discord. . . Those were the good old days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlyaP Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 10 minutes ago, Lightsnake said: this is kinda how I feel. It's like how someone once decribed Michael Crichton; abhorrent viewpoints, worldview and writing, but....a strange attachment? Aye. I'll miss him in an odd way. RIP the Yeard. That pretty much sums up how I feel too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infidel Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 30 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said: Yeah it's weird. Yeah, big 90s books. Jordon, Goodkind, Feist, Eddings, Weiss/Hickman. Hmmm Brooks. I'm forgetting one or two. Wow a lot of those don't hold up. I wasted my high school years reading so much crap. Still think (earlier) Feist is the best of the bunch. The first three Riftwar, and especially the Empire trilogy, all still hold up today. Of course, he was my favorite at that time too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlyaP Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 17 minutes ago, Infidel said: Still think (earlier) Feist is the best of the bunch. The first three Riftwar, and especially the Empire trilogy, all still hold up today. Crap, Feist too. Someone send a battalion of sardukar to his front door! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marquis de Leech Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Never read the guy, and was not well disposed to him, based off his general comments... but this is both unexpected and sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jurble Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 He was 72?! Substantially older than I thought he was (based on when I was a kid reading his books as they came out). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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