Yesterday (Monday 30th August) Robert Jordan appeared at the Independent Theatre in Sydney. Here’s how it went.
A verbatim account of this Q&A session can be found here .
After about half and hour of wine and finger food we filed in to the theatre. When Robert Jordan appeared, I, and a number of people were shocked; we had passed by him a number of times in the hallway without recognising him; he’s much larger than I expected him, and at first I mistook him for an Irishman.
RJ, and two other people were on the stage, while the rest of us down below at our seats. RJ was the only person who did not use a microphone—he has a large booming voice that carried well across the theatre.
Anyway, the Independent Bookstore rep introduced RJ and allowed him to speak a little about how glad he was to be there etc. Then he began reading from The Path of Daggers , part of the prologue. We were all bored, and at the end of that, he gave us the option of continuing to listen to him read, or he could leave (he really did). So he next chose The Dragon Reborn , and spent about 10 minutes on that. At the end of that we all dutifully clapped.
The rep then told us about RJ, details about his tour of duties, what medals he was awarded, and other details that we only had a basic knowledge of before (I did not record it, so I can’t recall what exactly they were).
Then question time.
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