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Summary: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T DO IT!!!
Review: Please, promise me you won't read this book...sure its a great introduction to a series...yes the characters are wonderful...but in the end, you'll be soooo disappointed.
The author is just calling these in to take advantage of young fantasy fans. First 4 or 5 books are fine, but after awhile...nothing happens.
Please, read something with a beginning, middle, and (most importantly) an end.
Don't support this dreck.
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Summary: Be Smart. Don't Start.
Review: This book is good, first of all. The beginning of the series is good. The first 5 books are excellent, the 6th is more political but still excellent.
Then, the 7th is slow, the 8th is dull, the 9th is dull except for one major event at the end, and the 10th book is ABYSMAL.
But before you commit to reading the expected 12 books in this series, currently stalled after episode 10, check out the reviews on that book, Crossroads of Twilight. It's currently at 1.5 stars, because nothing happens -- and then we have to wait 2 years, hoping and praying that in book 11, something might happen... which it might not. Etc, repeat. Since the end of the 6th book, fans have clung to the Waste of Time out of hope, and addiction, and belief that it couldn't POSSIBLY get worse (though it does), not enjoyment.
Understand what you are getting into, before you start. I recommend waiting for the series to finish, before starting. If you have the completed series in front of you to read (if the series is EVER completed...) you will not get as angry as we do, when nothing happens in a book and we have to wait 2 years crossing our fingers for the next. You might enjoy them that way.
But right now, don't start. Just don't. Read another fantasy series, and wait for Jordan to finish this monster. IF he ever does!
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Summary: Very good start, but be careful as you go on!
Review: This book was very good (I would like to let you know I have read the whole series, so i know where it has gone, hint, hint) I enjoyed the characters, plot and all the rest. The book is a little drawn out and it was a bit long, but all the same it was still enjoyable. The book follows the traditional fantasy guidelines, but it has some originality to it. I found the One Power intriging, it was something new that I hadn't seen before,it gives off a nice fresh feeling, yet it still has a traditional touch (the great quest, man of power and the almighty dark lord). I would suggest this book to people who enjoy the traditional fantasy novel filled with magic, power and quests. But also beware, this series is long and books six through ten have been horrible, beware, do not get into it that deep, and be ready to be frustrated. If you don't like long books then don't pick this up. If your tired of the traditional, quest, young good lad against the great dark lord thing then try something like George R.R. Martins A Song of Ice and Fire, it is long but boy is it good, maybe the best in the genre. But I give you my whole hearted warning, beware and ne ready to be disappointed, Mr. Jordan's story telling has gone done hill in the past years.
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Summary: Don't read unless you intend to finish
Review: While reading other reviews, I couldn't help but put in my opinion. As a 14 year old, I think The Eye of the World, and the first five books in the Wheel of Time are great. They're action-packed, adventurous, detailed, romantic, magical, etc. Then, six and seven are . . . eh. I'm in the middle of the eighth, and unlike the first five, where I read each book in a few days, this one I've been working on for a few weeks. The Eye of the World is great though. Rand al'Thor, a simple shepherd in the Two Rivers, who thinks his whole life is set before him, suddenly encounters a whilrwind of change. Trollocs attack his town, though only his farm, and his two friends' are attacked. Why only them? They are ta'veren, meaning the time must weave around them, instead of placing them in the pattern. In order to save his town, Rand, his friends Mat and Perrin, the Aes Sedai (in other words, a witch or sorceress) Moiraine, her warder Lan, Rand's unofficial fiancee Egwene, and the town wisdom, Nynaeve, leave for Tar Valon. On the way, each encounter strange things, different destinies, new powers, etc. After you've read maybe the first one hundred pages, you can easily guess who Rand is. And by the time you've hit the eighth book, you start wishing he had never found that little secret out....
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Summary: You do NOT want to invest time in this series.
Review: Why did I read this series? Well, many people seem to like it, and it sells well, so I figured it must be interesting. To a point, I was right. Like others before me have said, the first book is actually rather good, but then the series starts to devolve into the verbal tripe that makes up many other run-of-the-mill fantasy novels. Saying this, I have several friends who love this series. The only differense between them and myself is that I have read a lot in my 25 years, while this is their first or second outing into epic fantasy. Jordan basicly takes aspects from more clasic/interesting fantasy stories and meshes them together into his "epic." If you have never read fantasy before, you will probably be amazed, and rightly so: you are reading a compliation of tried and true fatasy consepts. For everyone else, you will enjoy the first couple of books, despite the fact that they are nothing new. However, around book 4 or 5 they simply become BORING. The story becomes bogged down with meaningless and uninteresting sub-plots, the characters become increasingly 2-dimensional and the writing itself becomes verbose to the point where it is obvious that Jordan is just looking for filler to extend his source of income. This is the first time I have ever reviewed a book, and I only do so now in the hope of saving people from my error. I had some spare time and the hope that these books would eventualy become interesting, so I read the first 9 (Thats right, they just keep going!). Please, do not make the same mistake as me! Stay clear of this series unless you are very young or new to fantasy, and even then know that only the first couple of books hold anything interesting.
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