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Summary: This the worst book I've ever read!
Review: This book is sooo bad that the only positive I can derive from it is sharing my misery with all the good folks on this message board.If you haven't read this yet, don't do it! It is gloriously awful! Literally nothing happens. There is nothing redeeming about it.
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Summary: Great Storytelling, needs brutal editing
Review: If you are not already a WOT fan, don't start reading these books yet. Jordan is a masterful story teller. If he were spinning this yarn by a village camp fire, we would be dazzled and never miss a session... it would also take several years to tell the story. If the story were being told live, we might expect to be able to ask "remind me who that is again?" when a character from last year's telling suddenly re-appeared, and the story would unfold in little bits while we sat on the edges of our chairs. We also might appreciate some of the extreme details giving a communal narrative presentation... things like the blue streaked marble of a fireplace in a room that we enter only once in 8000 pages and has no impact on the story. Meanwhile, back in book reading land, I've been reading these darn books for something like eight years. It a compelling story, with wonderful plot twists, and engaging characters, but it has begun to drag and lose momentum. The details about what people are wearing and how they style their hair are rich and give insight into the varied cultures of Jordan's fantasy world, but they are far too numerous. I can imagine CoT's story being told in 300-400 tight pages of prose and improving because of it. I'm hooked at this point, if I live long enough (and Jordan lives long enough), I'll read the whole darn series. I hope for better editing and tighter prose. If you haven't started, don't. Wait until the last book has been published. Two years between volumes is too long to keep track of the HUNDREDS of characters who have been introduced and DOZENS of plot lines. This is the first book I've ever read that in retrospect I would have been well advised to keep notes on each character introduced, just so I can follow the complexity of the story. Building a database would NOT be overkill. If you are looking for a fast read, don't start. If you are looking for a rich and compelling story, wait until you can buy every darn volume and then plan on spending a season or two doing nothing else.
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Summary: somewhat dissapointing
Review: After waiting eagerly for over 2 years for this book to come out, i had a lot of expectations for movement in the plot line. I understand that Jordan has a lot of subplots going on also, but nothing happened in the major plotlines. After the excellent cliffhanger in book 9, i was expecting so much more from this book. At the very end of book 10, he finally makes a little movement in the plot. Also, i was not liking the women in the book. they were no longer characters, but were just sounding like a bunch of steryotypical women, very dissapointing. although i am definitely going to buy the next book, there were just too many options for where the plot could have gone in book 10 that he just did not even address, and if he does not start picking up the pace in the next book, im moving on as much as it will hurt me. if i werent so intrigued with "randland", i would just give up now.
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Summary: Wasn't this supposed to be the last?
Review: I'm not really reviewing, so much as complaining...
I believed that Crossroads of Twilight was to be the last of what has been a mostly good, pretty exciting, albeit somewhat exasperating series. Obviously, I was wrong and of course, I was bound to be disappointed - not in the book, no, though it didn't have the same pace as some of the previous ones, and was almost plodding in some places...however, I digress. I was merely disappointed, because when I started reading, it soon became pretty apparent that it WASN'T the last book of the series, and there was still a long way to go! Most annoying. However, depite the disappointment of the series not being finished, I did enjoy this book and at least it's setting things in motion for the last battle/end of the world/Tarmon Gai'don/whatever...
I won't hold my breath in hoping that the next book will be the last, from some of the comments other reviewers have made. I'll just have to wait another 2 - 5 years before the NEXT book comes out... (Please can you write just a leetle bit faster, Mr Jordan?? Please?)
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Summary: Still great RJ, but where's the rest of the story?
Review: I want to start this review by saying that I truly believe Robert Jordan is one of the most talented and skillful writers I have had the pleasure of reading. I greatly appreciate his attention to detail and character development without the fear of crossing the 1,000 page mark (well, in the earlier WoT books anyway). I often get the feeling that other would-be great writers limit their talents by limiting their stories to a page limit, and now, sadly, it looks like RJ will be joining their ranks. Unlike others that have posted their reviews here, I prefer the plots to be tedious, difficult and confusing at times. That is what makes a great series great. If I wanted a wham-bam, get to the end quick, instant gratification story line, I'd watch a movie. Now with all that said, I found CoT to be an embarrassing disappointment. This is obviously not up to RJ's standards, and at best, reads more like an incomplete book that needs another 600 pages to get anywhere. I would gladly read the other 600 pages and look forward to the next installment, but don't insult me by making me wait another 2 years for the other half. In conclusion, if you're a WoT fan and you haven't bought the book yet, don't waste your time and money yet. Wait for the next book to come out and buy them both together, at least you'll save yourself from bitter disappointment. Let's just hope we don't have to wait another 2 years.
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Summary: I see dead people
Review: Perhaps Robert Jordan is dead, and somebody else is writing the WOT series using his name? Yes, that must be it? Sometimes, though, you can feel the original Jordan being present. Years from now, when the WOT books have reached an explosive ending, this book will be a classic. "The horrible nr. 10" people will call it, as they do even now, in fact.
Reading all the angry rewiews here at amazon.com is worth five stars alone.
Charles Dickens once said "let them cry, let them laugh and let them wait" about his writing, and the expectations of his audience.
Jordan is not Dickens, but there is a lot of crying, laughing and waiting going on here, I see.
Five stars to this strange book because it is the strangest book in the series. I never saw such a talented author produce a thing like this. I will remember it forever.
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Summary: Flash!!! TOR editors piece together WOT 10 from scraps
Review: Two years is a long time to wait to see how much embroidery and lace Matt has come to like on his clothes. "Glacial" as one review suggests isn't even the word for the pace of the last two books. When RJ (or whoever) actually does advance any story line he does it in less than a paragraph, or, as a teaser. I truly enjoy this series, and if it never concluded that would be fine with me, but lets have a story. Before you buy this one, re-read the other nine, then re-read them again. There will be less time to brood between book 10 and book 11. The rest of us will just have to keep reading the Song of Ice and Fire series to keep ourselves occupied.
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Summary: I enjoyed this book as much as ripping out my own fingernail
Review: However the fingernail kept me awake. This series started out as such a great series quickly catapulting it to my favorite. It's good to see an author become only about the money and try to drag the series out to milk it for all its worth. I agree that there is a chance to turn this series around because I do see flashes of the writer that I liked. But the past 3 or 4 books have been increasingly disappointing, culminating with this book. This series has become a stagnant series and will soon be bought in the bargain bin. After waiting what seemed forever for this book, I ran home and started reading it. Finally getting disgusted around page 100 I got to the actual main characters. Yeah. Then around page 500 I got to see Rand. Yeah again. But can someone tell me why Rand has less pages than the supporting cast! Why all the fluff? Did his editors require a certain number of pages? I really do hope that the reviews of the still faithful are not incorrect and that you will turn this series around. But if this excuse of a book is the best Jordan can do anymore, I suggest he wraps it up in the next book and quits while he still has some fans.
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Summary: I'm DONE with Wheel of Time!
Review: I was an AVID fan of the first five or six books of the Wheel of Time series, but books seven through ten have really had that "throwing in the anchor" feel to them, as Jordan slowed the storytelling pace to a crawl and milks this thing for all it's worth. It's come to the point where I literally cannot finish reading the latest book "Crossroads of Twilight". The story is so slow, so tedious in its detail, and so sprawling in the number of characters and political minutia, that I have reached the point where I no longer care. I'm deeply saddened that Jordan has transformed such an initially good and emotionally engaging story into such dry, lifeless tedium. Don't waste your money on this travesty.
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Summary: A HUGE letdown
Review: I WAS a huge fan of the Wheel of Time series until book 9, Winter's Heart. Now with book 10, I am offically off of the Wheel bandwagon. Since Jordan began this series, several other fantasy have started and brought the a new, fresh perspective that Mr. Jordan did in '95. Most of these new wave of fantasy books incorporate a huge ammount of political intrigue and backstabbing and other "historically real" senarios. After reading Crossroads of Twilight, it is apparent that Jordan has been reading some of these works as well.
Robert Jordan spins countless NEEDLESS political senarios, for instance the whole Elayne-Egwene-Rand-Black Tower issue... or you could choose the Rand-Black Tower issue, how about the sworn sisters-Rand-Egwene stuff too. He seems to be writing willy-nilly in this volume,trying too hard to incorporate a more political flair, expecting the reader to forget relationships fostered and nutured through the previous volumes. This makes the formerly only needless senarios also confusing.
Mr. Jordan also furthers this ridiculousness by throwing out too many names and introducing too many characters. I for one am tired of names with one letter differences involved in a pages long dialog about nothing. I would have rather waited an additonal two years for Mr. Jordan to actually bring a book worthy of the Wheel of Time. As it stands now, he has been on a descent into uninspired blandness since book 7.
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