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Summary: Finish the Series
Review: Jordan needs to finish this series and get back to the action! The politics were once interesting but are now boring. Finish the series the way it was started!!
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Summary: marketing case study
Review: Crossroads is a miserable book. Just awful. There is no follow up to Rand's supposed cleansing of the source or anything that the series was originally about. Jordan, for whatever bizarre reasons of his own, chooses to focus on the absolute worst storyline in the series: the once likeable Perrin and his tiresome wench Faile. The Mat backstory barely redeems the book, because it takes 200+ pages to tell what should have taken 20. It is eerie how checked out the editors at TOR are. Have they, like, not read the last 4 books, much less edited them? I think this series is a case study in marketing a fading brand -- when quality fails you fall back and cannibalize your loyal customer base with new, similar products. ...
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Summary: wheel of Time book 9a
Review: I was very disappointed with this book, in comparison with the rest of the series, which was excellently written. instead of anything meaningful happening, almost the whole of the book is devoted to other characters being aware of the events at the end of Winter's Heart. aside from this, they seem to do not much but sit around and talk. while thsi could have been done well, they don't really seem to have much to talk about. I enjoy character interaction, but i like it to have some purpose.
It would have been nice to have a little more action as well.
As a result of this total lack of plot advancement, and its coexistance with the events ending book 9, i would rather call this Book 9A than book 10. and for the love of God, could someone please find a better person to do the cover art for these books? These look like teddy bears, not people. maybe one of the D&D artists is available.
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Summary: Thank you reviewers
Review: I stopped buying the WoT books after Book 7 (which I could not finish) but from your reviews I can tell I missed nothing. Not buying until the last book.
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Summary: A Book for the More Sophisticated Reader
Review: The mixed reviews the last few of Jordan's books have recieved come as no surprise to me; so few people truly understand fiction writing. The lack of heart-wrenching action at the turn of every page may drive away some Goosebump readers who have gotten in over their heads, and I say good. Crossroads Of Twilight, though not the most action-packed of the series, certainly has a wealth of complexity and plot development beyond anything I have ever seen. If anyone out there cares about significant deatail and descrpition in a novel and is willing to dedicate some time, then I strongly recommend this book to you. Consider what Jordan does with these books, and perhaps you will understand how truly brilliant they are.
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Summary: 680 Pages of Pure Fluff
Review: You keep thinking Mr. Jordan is going to see the error of his ways and wrap this series up but he continues to provide us with nothing but non-contributory plot fragments and an ever-increasing list of "never to be seen again" characters. I struggled through the last few books simply because I remembered how good the first 4 were. The time has come to bring this series to a close. It saddens me to see the pure genius of his eary work degraded into material to make himself a buck. Mr. Jordan you have ruined a fantastic series with your greed.
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Summary: Transitional book???
Review: I stopped reading this series after Book 7, so I really have no criticism to offer on the series. However, I'm reading much of the same criticisms that have existed since the aforementioned Book 7 and, not surprisingly, more and more of them seem to be of the negative variety. There was one positive one, however, that deemed it "transitional." WHAT?! That's what the Pro-Jordanites have been saying for the past three books! How many transitional volumes do you need?! Oy! Just a suggestion: if you're fed up with WoT, do yourself a favor and start reading George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series. Yes, it's also a series that isn't set to a certain number of volumes, but the reader gets an idea that things are steadily, if not rapidly, coming to a head (heck, if all subsequent volumes are as good as the first two, I'm almost tempted to say the series can go on forever - something I can't even come close to saying about RJ's "Make it Stop" series). And, true, they're just as enormous as Jordan's books; however, things actually happen, the plot actually advances and more pages are utilized developing character and story than are squandered describing what people wear. In other words, it's almost unbearably good.
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Summary: where is the ending?
Review: Through book 6, Lord of Chaos, this was a fascinating story. I really enjoyed reading it. Since book 6, it has slowly deteriorated. The last two books have been severly lacking in anything close to climactic. I finished this book thinking that they forgot to include the last 50 pages in my edition. Alas, no, that was the end. Thanks for taking my $20 and giving me lots of descriptions of how people look and no story to go along with it.
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Summary: The Gnashing of Teeth
Review: To say that I am frustrated does not capture the depth of my feeling. I, like so many others, suffered the years between the last installments hoping beyond hope that this one, unlike the last several, would move the plot forward. I like character development and I enjoy the art of writing a scene so that the reader can actually envision it. But, that said, we read epics because of the adventure. There was no adventure to be had in this volume. It was a sidebar: What everyone else doing when Rand cleansed saidin. It certainly could have been said, if it had to be said, shorter and without the repetition from earlier installments. And then, the book should have moved us closer to the Last Battle. I look forward to Number 11 with dread. I will read it because I have come this far. But it is the last time that I will take Jordan on faith. If 11 doesn't come through, I am finished with the series.
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Summary: Slightly better than everyone is giving it credit for
Review: Let me start by saying that this might be the most anti-climactic book I have ever read. That said - I enjoyed reading it anyway. I like the characters, the setting and the storyline, but of the 680 pages, the only relevant "action" was in the very VERY end. As long as you are prepared for that the book won't disappoint you TOO much.
I wasn't prepared for that though, so 2 stars it what it gets. Anyway - I will stick with the Wheel of Time series to the end for one main reason - books 1-3 might be the 3 best books I ever read, and I've read quite a bit of fantasy.
(Wizard First Rule & series, Rhapsody & series by Elizabeth Haydon, George RR Martin etc.) In short - don't expect much and Crossroads might exceed your expectations. Barely.
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