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Summary: What the.....?
Review: I don't really know what to say....this book was a real let down.....especially after waiting over two years...I was really hoping to say "Wow ! That was worth the wait.!"..but really, I could have waited....it was like one chapter stretched out into 700 pages..!..the first clue that this was going to be a clunker is the prologue....an 80 page prologue that lead nowhere...!...I remember being half way through the book and still no action.....plenty of detail about how people wash their clothes or how their clothes feel when they get wet....but no action.....anyway, here's my advice..like all the other reviews, SKIP THIS BOOK ! Go to the book store, read the first chapter and the last chapter, save your 20 bucks, and call it a day ! Maybe 2 years from now when the next book comes out Mr. Jordan will have gotten his act together...
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Summary: Two authors or One??
Review: I have been an avid Wheel Of Time Reader since the beginning. This latest book was worth about 4 chapters. The other "million or so" words seemed to have been put to paper by a different author. The phrasing and word choices were different than the unusually cunning usages that Mr. Jordan has given us in the past. Does Mr. Jordan have a ghost writer? If so, tell them to just put this series to an end and start something new. One last book for all of us diehard fans, will be more than sufficient. Don't bother buying the book unless you are a true fan and even then only buy it if you can't borrow it from a friend.
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Summary: What a stinker!
Review: Ditto to what everyone else is saying. It would have been wonderful if something would have actually happened in this book, but descriptions of clothing, pointless conversations, and the introduction of literally dozens of characters that do absolutely nothing fill this book. I think Jordan has completely lost touch with the idea of what details are important to a story. If this series is supposed to end in another 2 books, my guess is everyone will sit around and smooth their skits and drink tea until the last page of book 12 when a horde of space aliens will swoop down blow eveything up.
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Summary: Already delayed, Jordan lost again at intersection
Review: Jordan is lost and doesn't know where he's going. Which way to turn. Crossroads? More like filler. Lazy and pedestrian. I don't mind long or rich - or both. Crossroads is like a cowboy movie with everything cut out but looped segments of riders and horses going forth and back and getting nowhere. Setup? The previous nine were also setups. Stay tuned? For what? He closed out book nine with Rand cleansing the Source -- but it takes him 300 pages of repetitious nonsense to get back to Rand and then wobbles badly. .... Like anyone else who's read the first 10 books, I'll probably read the next. I have an investment in the rich fantasy world Jordan has created. ... Every woman is in danger of becoming a cardboard Barbi simulation that swallows up the occasional great beauty Jordan once knew how to describe. Jordan delights in muddling up his work repeatedly with names of minor characters that are too similar to more important characters. At this rate he doesn't need a glossary, but an index to keep the names straight. Etc. ... Setup? This is a muddled mess. When Jordan is trying, he's as taut as anyone, no matter the length. Write as long as you want to, Mr. Jordan, but get back to the quality of the first three. If you're dedicated to this series as many of us are, don't buy the hardback. Wait until the next in the series comes out, buy Crossroads in paper and hope that Jordan rouses himself. At least the two books together will make more sense than a year apart....
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Summary: Hahaha
Review: How could you rate this anything less than 5? This is one of the great comic works of our time. The literary irony of having 500 chimps write 700 pages of utter ... and convincing a horde of people to buy it...brilliant. Oh I cannot stop laughing...oh wait, I bought this. Mr. Jordan, I get it. I realize you've written a hyperbolic satire of the fantasy genre, but could you please give me a refund. I need some cash to help with the anuyerism I suffered while trying to figure out which pages had been photocopied from previous books and which were new.
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Summary: Enough Already!Lets end this saga!
Review: I f you are reading this, you have already read the other 9 books. If you haven't, DON'T start with this one! Robert Jordan has so many characters that the main one, Rand, doesn't even appear until page 540. I don't think that 30 pages of the whole book was directly involving him. HIs prose is as good as ever, but this books slogs along for almost 700 pages and nothing really happens until the end and even that is almost a non-event. I will read book 11 when it comes out because I enjoy the Jordan style, but I want a conclusion already. All this book did was drag armies from one spot to another with nothing happening. Too many names of minor characters and not enough contact with the major ones. Let's hope that book 11 winds this whole thing up so that Jordan can start a new adventure. The early books were much better.
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Summary: Why not one star?
Review: If the stars served as a proxy for literary appeal, than I would say one out of five people might find this over-priced paper-weight worth purchasing.When the series began, the tension, the interplay of key characters, the evolution of myths and metaphysics proved to be an engaging mix. I loved the second book of this series. The current incarnation is insipid. I wanted this book to end so badly so that I could hurl into my fireplace and purge myself of the experience. The taint was cleansed in the prior book, and now has attached itself to the remains of this utterly tiring tome of irritation. I want the "Final Battle" to come quickly and evaporate all the annoying, trite characters that deserve to die. There are no characters with any pathos, just random text following some meandering plot and filling a minimum page limit. Mr. Jordan, please conclude the WoT with a series of Cliffs Notes, I cannot bear to read another 700 pages of train of thought garbage.
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Summary: crossroads of twilight
Review: i can not believe i paid money for this .... jordan has lost it and me as a fan. can you believe 24 chapters before the main person ( rand ) shows up? also, how did the male side of the one power get clean? i for one don't care if jordan ever finishes his too many story line epic,because i won't be buying them.
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Summary: A Piece of ...
Review: Folks, let me start off by saying that I loved each of the first 9 books of this series. After finishing each, I couldn't wait for the next one to come out. However, in the last 2 books, Mr. Jordan has taken tens of thousands of words to painstakingly say absolutely nothing. With creations of fiction like this, he should take his talents to the speech writing corps for the Democratic Party. I have wasted [money] and two weeks of my free time reading his last two "efforts," and have in doing so, I have been played for a fool. I'll not be again. I won't spend another dime on his books, and will read the reviews to see if anything actually HAPPENS in the next novels before I borrow them with great trepidation from my local library.
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Summary: crossroads of twilight(wheel of time book 10
Review: you can basically skip this book and it wont be any problem in keeping up with the series- Their is only one chapter on Rand-the most of the book is focused on the restoration of the lion throne by elanye and the unification of the white tower...i for one dont care about these subjects...no violence no wars just some hum drum drama including the ever so enlighting of matt's soon to engagement to the daughter of the nine moons(boring) and perrin's search for flaile still continues with nothing resolved.
VERY VERY VERY DISSAPPOINTING BOOK
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