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Summary: You Can Not Be Serious?
Review: Like some of the previous reviewers, I have not read this book, and I will certainly not buy this book. Neither should anyone else. After the CoT fiasco (1500 reviews on Amazon - 1,450 of them negative), in part created by readers' frustration with Jordan's lack of focus, his inability to finish story lines, and the snails pace that his plot had been reduced to; it boggles my mind that he would publish a PREQUEL!!! Yea, that's just what his loyal readers have been looking for, more back story.Like I said, I haven't read it, but if you're looking for fashion tips, descriptions of trips to the grain market, or perhaps interested in developing some annoying new personal tics (like pulling braids and running fingers over scars) then by all means, buy this book. I'm sure it's a keeper.
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Summary: More filler
Review: RJ has lost his magic, this book continues the decline we have seen in his last few books.
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Summary: Good book
Review: This was a fun book to read. I'd probably give it 4 stars, but I'm trying to make up for the dorks who gave it 1 star without even reading it.
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Summary: How 'bout you write an ending??!!!
Review: You know I agree with a previous reviewer - we're not really reviewers - we are merely folks who used to be happy passengers on the Wheel of Time train. Now though it becomes clear that Jordan's Wheel merely refers to this money factory that this series has become. He has no intention of finishing it but will keep grinding along until he drops. Want to know why Tolkein was such a genius? Because he FINISHED HIS STORY. For crying out loud even Donaldson finished in 6 books! This guy is ridiculous, this series is now ridiculous and I am out of here. Who's with me??
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Summary: It definitely is a new spring!
Review: Been a die-hard Robert Jordan fan since Wheel of Time first was published. Read every one of the books at least once, some more. To all the naysayers I say this: New Spring is fantastic. I enjoyed every word.
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Summary: It's a great read
Review: We've come to only expect the best by RJ, and this prequel is no exception. I love all the books in this series, CoT was awesome even though some readers missunderstood it. Can't wait for the next one. A must buy
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Summary: RJ continues to impress.
Review: There are always questions by the fans about certain things that cannot be included in the main volumes, and thanks to Robert Jordan some of these questions have been answered in the form of prequels that in essence do not take any extra time for RJ to complete. This prequel is a page turner, and the pace is very refreshing. A must for any fan out there, and for any fantasy lover.
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Summary: Its the "Wheel of Time"
Review: People in general are already complaining about this book,some havent even read it in its current form,just the little story from "Legends",hey its the Wheel of time,you either get it or you dont,you either read it or you dont,i am not the biggest "Wheel" fanatic,and it was extremely hard to get through book ten,but dont give up on the series just yet,i for one nver read the story in "Legends" and i enjoyed this prequel,nothing for me will take place of "Eye of the world" as a starting point,but it was neat to see my favorite characters back to the front of a story,i miss Moraine,but now i got to read about her and Lan,dont be a quitter! finish the series we all have loved at one time,with only a couple or few books left,it seems the Author is going to have to seriously cram alot of things in those books to end the series,should be good reads and faster paced books,and if the story ends in 2010,so be it.patience is a virtue,some of us have been reading these books for well over thirteen years now,just enjoy them as they come,because one day when it is over,you will wish you could read about these characters still........."I said goodday"
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Summary: Good Book
Review: This is a good read. Unlike some reviewers I have read the book and it was niece to see Moraine in a different setting from the other books. I would reccommend any longtime wheel of time fan the read this book. A fine way to see how the search for Rand came about.
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Summary: Best WOT Novel Since the Early Books in the Series
Review: New Spring is an extended version of the novella of the same name, originally published in the anthology "Legends." While the novel's added material does not include any new, earthshaking revelations, the book represents a very welcome return by Jordan to the more lucid writing style that made him so popular in the first place. Set about 18 years before The Eye of the World, New Spring is mainly told from the points of view of Moiraine and Lan. The last third or so of the novel is essentially just a reprinting of the novella. The story prior to that takes place in the White Tower and relates Gitara Moroso's Foretelling about the Dragon Reborn, and its aftermath and effect on Moiraine and her close friend and fellow Accepted, Siuan Sanche. New Spring is very reminiscent in many ways of the first two Wheel of Time novels. It is similar to The Eye of the World in that Jordan wisely limits his points of view to two major personages instead of jumping wildly from one minor character to another, as has too often been the habit in the last four novels in the series. It is similar to The Great Hunt in the way that much of the story is set in the White Tower and told from the points of view of two young Accepted trying to conduct their own investigation into some very serious matters without being found out by the Amyrlin and the other Aes Sedai. The ajahs and their customs - particularly the Blues' - are explored more thoroughly than Jordan has done before. While none of the new material is crucial to the series, much of it is interesting. Jordan relates Moiraine's test to be raised to Aes Sedai, which has certain similarities to Nynaeve's Accepted test in The Great Hunt, though Moiraine's test is much more involved. Jordan being Jordan, though, public female nudity is again a prominent part of the test and the novel. One of the weaknesses of New Spring is that too many characters of the Wheel of Time series proper are dragged onstage to make unnatural-feeling, contrived, cameo appearances. It also does not seem very likely that so many of the key Aes Sedai of the Wheel of Time era would only have been Accepted at the time of New Spring. Siuan's and Moiraine's close friendship that continues publicly even after both join the Blue Ajah flatly contradicts what has been related before. All in all, though, New Spring represents a refreshing return by the once (and future?) king of epic fantasy to the style that won him so many fans a decade ago. If Jordan's writing renaissance carries over to book 11 of the Wheel and beyond, his fans will regard this prequel detour as a very fortunate diversion.
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