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Summary: Waste of Time
Review: When my wife told me that another book was just released I was in suspense and eager to get my hands on it. For those of you who've read the last couple of books in the series, this will seem like an entire year wasted on a book that could have been written after the series was finished. The male source is finally clean. And while we're salivating for the final battle to commence, he writes a story about Novices going on an adventure. Thoroughly disgusted, I cannot bear to read any more of his books until he gets his act together and stops writing about snotty Novices, Accepted and power junkie Aes Sedai scheming and whining about how every single nit picking detail is or should be done in, around or for the White Tower.
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Summary: Good book.
Review: It's a great book for Robert Jordan fans but you have to have read a wheel of time book before this sort of. It's a prequel to the series not a sequel however and is alot shorter.
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Summary: This book is excellent!
Review: Having never read the original New Spring, I must say I really enjoyed this book. Contrary to the beliefs of others, this book reminded me a lot more of the earlier books in the series than the latter. I don't know how people can claim this book is worthless and that there is nothing new in it. The fact we get to see the test to become an Aes Sedai is more than worth it for me - let alone the detail about the White Tower and its inner politics. I would not be surprised if the people who nay-say this book actually only read a small part and decided it wasn't worth it before they trashed it. Yes, it is a lot better than the later novels in the series. No, it is not trash. Perhaps people just want the series to end so badly that they cannot sit there and think about the value of the very details Jordan is providing. I for one am glad I purchased this book, having read it completely in two days.
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Summary: About Time
Review: After finally losing all patience with Jordan after that fiasco called book ten, I started New Spring with growing tredpidation and nightmares of nothing happening. It starts off slow and wanders for chapters over copying names onto a list.
However, it does pick up and once it got going i could not put the book down and it reminded me of the very first book in WOT. I absolutely loved this book and I hope that the other Prequels are done in the same way. I know that a lot of fans are turned off by Jordan these days and i can understand why. However there are a few things that happen in this book, I never read the short story version of this one so it came as a surprise, and I think that in order to write book 11 he had to deal with that first. It definitely makes Rand's position in book 10 a little more tense.
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Summary: RJ haters, shut your mouths.
Review: I'm really tired of reading reviews about how Robert Jordan should end the WOT series already, and it's all the same, blah blah blah. If you don't like it, stop reading it already. It's a long story with more than just battles and magic. If you want that, go read some Dungeons and Dragons novel. As for this book, good stuff. Shows us some more background. If you love WOT then I have no doubt that you will love this.
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Summary: Stop Whining!!!!
Review: I thought this book was great for anyone into the WOT. The story moves well and it fills in a lot of small gaps and tells a lot of background previously undisclosed. I check the reviews out of curiosity and so many people are crying, "When will it end - too long!" Yeah, its a long and detailed story - suck it up and enjoy the intricacy! Not a series for those without the will to read a LONG story. I would not recommend this unless you are into the WOT and if you by some odd chance are just getting going I'd wait until I was done to hit this.
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Summary: This book highlights the problems...
Review: New part of review...
Reviews are supposed to be critical, not necessarily bad, but with some rating. Like many I love WoT through the first four books. Mine, and most others. complaint is not that the WoT is too long, too complex etc. It is has to do with the declining level of quality of the books. What Jordan used to do just as well in fifty pages (or whatqever the original short story was), now requires over 300, with very little insight added, except that all good Aes Sedai as novices apparently have to be pillow friends and pranksters. The novel could just as well be about Elayne, Egwene, Min etc. They all act same... At least can those who love to gush over all Jordan's book even admit that the level of WoT books have declined dramatically...
If you don't like reading honest criticism stick to the fan websites etc. Reviews should be written by discriminating readers to help advise future buyers. Older part of review:
If you read the story in Legends, don't bother with this book. Fortunately, I didn't read the story until after the book, so the book was OK. Certainly better than most recent WoT installments. The book highlights one of the issues I have with Jordan. He seems to have lost all story telling ability. What was once an action packed series that explored new places and advanced the story in an interesting way now laboriously meanders as Jordan feels he needs to provide every detail of every day. As WoT books have slowed, it exposed the weakness of characters and his writing. I can remember buying the third and fourth book with some disappointment because I thought for sure the story was going to end. I wish he could go back and start over from book 5 and finish the series by 8 or 9 at most. To return to this book...If you read the short story don't bother, nothing more significant or much of interest is added. There really are only more words. I wish Jordan would do the exact opposite, turn books 6-10 into short stories. Sadly, this hypothetical condensed version would still not stand up the first four books... Recommend: Martin's Fire and Ice Series, Kay's Tigana, and Song for Arbonne, Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series, and Tolkien. Slightly lesser but still good Jone's Cavern of Black Ice (and sequel), Key's Briar King
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Summary: Same old same old
Review: As an entire novel, this is better than his last novel; however I would have given that one zero stars if I could. As an addition to his Legends short story, this is defiantly not worth the price. The back-end of this novel (the original New Spring) is fairly engaging; the additional pre-prequel is not. The politics are boring, the description of every object to minutia is mind0numbing and the characters are the same cookie-cutter characters that fill Jordan's other novels. I think I would have rather had the unemotional Aes Sedai where I could imagine their inner-thoughts then find out that they share the exact same emotional maturity as all of Jordan's other unimaginative female characters. Do not buy this novel. Buy Legends instead and enjoy the quick-read of the original New Spring along with some other excellent short stories.
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Summary: ****ARGGHHHH****
Review: I broke my New Year's resolution! I bought ANOTHER book by Robert Jordan, and have paid the price. Another piece of utterly worthless drivel, dredged up from the most putrid nauseating cesspools of "literary" achievement.
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Summary: Better than the recent novels.
Review: I actually enjoyed this prequel, which surprised me, since the most last few books of the series have bored me to death. Jordan got back to the roots of the story, and in doing that he got back to what was enjoyable about it. There weren't so many characters and plots going on in this book that the pace had to be slowed to a couple days through the entire novel, like the most recent full length books, and you learned a great deal more about Moraine and Lan. Lan is one of my favorite characters and I like Moraine a great deal more now. I wish Jordan could go back and re-write his world from book 5 or 6 on, in the same style. His most recent book, Crossroads of Twilight, I waited until it came out in paperback then I ... skimmed it... I SKIMMED a Jordan book! *sigh*. I just couldn't stand to slog through it.
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