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Summary: Mr. Jordan Did It Again...
Review: and that he did! I really don't blame him, I blame myself more. I've been holding on to this fantasy/dream that the WOT series will return to the quality of the mid-ninties. I know, we all know, that the past few books wouldn't have even been published, nevermind bestsellers if they were books one, two, or three. What is expected? That the final few books will be amazing and worth thousands of pages of garbage we've read for the past few year...I highly doubt it! Name a series that goes from great to horrible and then back to great...maybe Friends, but that's it.My view: shed a tear and quit, never touching the WOT series again.
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Summary: I can hardly wait for the next 36 books
Review: If you have nothing to do (and you don't want to do anything anyway) and you have lots of time to do it, I encourage you to read this book. I'm confident that the opportunity to fill your time with drivel and pointless narrative will be satisfying. By my reckoning, approximately 10 days of time passed in the lives of the characters in the span from page 1 to page 800. At this rate, we can look forward to 36 books from Robert Jordan just so we can see how the characters spend one year of their lives. My biggest dilemma is this: Should I donate the book to a second hand store so that the next reader contributes no money to the author and to Tor, or should I burn it so that nobody is subject to this farce of fiction? Hmmm... something to ponder. Don't buy this book. Let Tor know you're disappointed.
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Summary: Disappointing & Unnecessary
Review: Robert Jordan did not need to bother with "Crossroads of Twilight". Absolutely nothing happened. Only at the very end does one of our major players end up in the hands of the enemy. The rest of the book is a waste of time, both in advancing the plot and in developing the characters.In addition, Mr. Jordan is either thoughtless or arrogant to not include some kind of synopsis. If he is going to make readers wait so long between books, he should include some kind of list of characters and how they came to be where they are in the story. He could probably even make money by selling a separate "Guide to The Wheel of Time". Because I enjoyed the first nine books so much, I would probably buy it, in spite of Book Ten. Book Eleven will determine whether or not I give up on this series.
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Summary: More Boring Than Watching Grass Grow
Review: Would give this book -10 stars if possible. If you're feeling extremely masochistic, buy & read this book. They should drop this book by the crate on Al Qaeda and Iraq!! On second thought, they hate us enough. No sense really making them mad!!
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Summary: I Think It's Important To Note...
Review: Like most other reviewers, I am a long time fan of the Wheel of Time series - it has been more than half my life since I first picked up Book One.
The first six books were a rollercoaster of action and adventure. I'd never encountered a fantasy like it, rich in detail, expertly plotted and awash with enthralling characters.
Book Seven slackened the pace a little, but that was understandable: Book Six had been a behemoth volume that probably took years off the author's life.
Book Eight was were the plot began to stagnate a little, with characters moving forward in increments, and events that would have taken a quarter of a chapter in previous volumes taking several chapters to cover.
Book Nine was where things really slowed down. At this point it became blindingly obvious that the characters themselves had stagnated, the females all becoming mirror images of one another, and the males becoming caught up in their personal obsessions. And yet, towards the end of the book, a ray of hope appeared. Big Things started to happen, and it looked like they were going to continue happening in Book Ten.
The readers were already weary. Many had already left the fold, claiming they would not pick up another Wheel of Time book until the series was finished, and then it would be from their local library. The rest of us were hoping against hope that Robert Jordan would find his feet once more, willing to give him one last chance.
And then, Crossroads of Twilight appears, the worst book yet in the series. Pointless and plotless, this is the last straw. The excitement is gone - I remember not being able to sleep because I'd seen the COVER of Book Seven on the internet before it was published. I doubt I'll even be aware of Book Eleven until I notice it on the shelves while browsing for something else.
I hope there is a reaction to this book. Tor should be flooded with the letters of disgruntled fans, and hopefully the returned copies of this book. I would, but it would require shipping overseas from Australia, and I've already spent enough money on the Wheel of Time.
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Summary: The Crossroads of Twilight
Review: This book is the literary equivalent of watching paint dry. It's obvious now that Jordan is being paid by the quantity of words and not the quality. He wrote 600+ pages that could have easily been reduced to 50. There were times when several pages would go by and no dialogue takes place. Instead, you have to wade through endless descriptions of how gray the sky was or what clothes someone was wearing. Then of course you're reintroduced to countless minor characters that you can't remember anything about because it's been 2 years since the last book. To top things off, the book covers only a couple of weeks in the lives of the characters and NOTHING HAPPENS!
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Summary: WOT = Waste of Time
Review: I want my money and time back. It's amazing that this guy can write 675 pages in which ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENS. For heaven's sake, after thousands upon thousands of pages of plot development in prior books, we do not need to hear any more about Aes Sedai's dresses or Egwene's or Elayne's musings about things they've mused about 100 times before. Enough already. We know that stuff. Now move on and tie up some of the subplots and start winding this thing to a conclusion.
Instead, he introduces subplots to the subplots. Example: Perrin is supposed to be trying to rescue Faile. Do we see anything approaching a conclusion to that one? NO. We see Perrin going to a city we've never heard of to... buy grain. Ta-da! That's it? For crying out loud! Oh yeah, and the people in that city are ... dirty! They haven't bathed in who knows how long because they're scared of the ghosts that seem to be haunting their town. OOOOOOOH! How thrilling. (Not!) Gimme a break! Who needs that garbage? Get on with it. Don't get me wrong -- I'm not saying I wanted to see the Last Fricking Battle in this book, or even in book 11. But, geez, something more interesting than Aes Sedai smoothing their skirts and Accepted dropping curtsies should happen. We need some plot advancement and the conclusion of some subplots to make it worthwhile to read these books. I hoped that we would see at least one or two of the following: Faile rescued; the White Tower seige ended; the Caemlyn seige ended. Instead, we get: Mat flirting with Tuon (the most entertaining - and I use that term lightlyt - thing this book had to offer), Perrin buying grain, and Egwene and Elayne still fretting in the same way they've been fretting for the last several thousand pages. I'm fed up. I quit.
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Summary: Frelling Dren
Review: How very, very sad. Unlike the earlier books of this series I found this one extremely easy to put down. It was like sitting through a lecture on "how is every character doing emotionally" I think I may in fact not even bother with the next book.
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Summary: I have to agree...
Review: I have been the most ardent of fans and unlike most Shadow Rising adherents I feel that the Lord of Chaos is the pinnacle of the series. This book however, like the last two, is an extremely boring disappointment. There is no direction and it is obvious Jordan has lost control of the story. So many characters have simply disappeared that I have lost count; not to mention the fact that the prologue seems to be a prologue for book eleven more than book ten. The one redeeming part of the book was Mats story which of course was without any kind of character or plot arc, but at least he is entertaining. There are so many questions about who is where and what I am actually angry at this book. I am of course going to keep buying the books though. ...
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Summary: What a colossal waste ...
Review: of time and money. I have read the first four books many times, the next three a few times but I shudder at the thought of opening COT again. It was so boring that I couldn't finish it.
Do yourself a favor if you have to read it and go to the Library - I know they will have one since I will be donating my copy to them.
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