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Summary: Holding out till Tarmon Gaidon
Review: Ok so it seems that the actual end of the world and Tarmon Gaidon will happen about the same time.Robert Jordan is an excellent auther but books 8 and 10 have both really really .... Nothing happens in book 10. Like others have said before if it was condinced into a 100 page prologue then it would be an excellent start to the book. In truth the book has a 100 page prologue with new characters who don't even contribute to the rest of the story. And some of the characters in the prologue are old and obscure because they themselves have only been in the prologues of other books. The group of Aes Seida that are hunting the black ajah don't even need to have their story told at this point because they never come into contact with any of the main characters. Robert Jordan develops insignificant characters to much. Rand doesn't even get a chapter untill around page 600, and its from Cadsuana's point of view primarly. I want to see Robert Jordan to include Rand, Matt, and Perrin in his next book since they are the primary characters. .... Sincerly from a University of Texas (Austin) Student
Benjamin Wilson
Hook'em Horns
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Summary: CoT Goes nowhere
Review: I don't know what happened to the Wheel of Time series, but the last few books have been largely a waste of time. I agree with a lot of the other viewers who state you can skip this book and just read a summary. I am terribly disappointed that Robert Jordan has managed to completely derail the excellent story he started his series telling.
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Summary: A 700 page Set-Up Book, Again?
Review: Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is my personal favorite series. I have read the entire series 4 times. Well it was until this book. Does he ever plan on ending it? The first 400 pages are about what was happening in the world at the end of th last book. At least he finally got back to Mat, but too little to late. To make a long story short, this book was by far the worst one in the series. Don't buy it in Hard Cover.
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Summary: I've been robbed!
Review: What a bitter disappointment. This series started out so incredibly great and has become so very dreary. Someone else mentioned that we have been waiting for the battle for the White Tower since book 6!! GET TO THE POINT ALREADY! I can appreciate plot development and pulling all the sub-plots together but at least make it entertaining. It took me weeks to read this one because it kept putting me to SLEEP! I'm done with WOT. On a separate note Amazon.com should change the ratings so you can give zero stars.
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Summary: Too Many Subplots Ruin this Book and Series
Review: I started out as an enthusiastic fan of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time ten years ago, but I'm starting to think I may not bother to finish the series. The strengths of the first five books were the humanity and believabililty of the main characters, the elegantly described action scenes, the witty dialogue, and the great detail Jordan uses in painting us a picture of his world. In the tenth installment, this is no longer true. Too many subplots and new major and minor characters have been introduced and/or resurrected since, and since Jordan democratically devotes the same amount of time to each, the dialogue and detail have become tedious and melodramatic rather than interesting and important to the main plot. And the action...what action? Only 4 or 5 chapters can be devoted to each of the original main characters, which means that the story does not progress in any significant way. In the beginning of this book, Perrin is still trying to free Faile. Mat is still trying to get out of Altara. Rand is plotting his next move, having cleansed saidin. Elayne is still trying to secure the throne. At the end of this book, guess what: Perrin is still trying to free Faile. Mat is still trying to get out of Altara. Rand is plotting his next move, having cleansed saidin. Elayne is still trying to secure the throne. It's true! Almost nothing major happens beyond a few characters making decisions that turn out to be really not all that shocking or interesting. Egwene is the only character to have something significant happen to her, unfortunately resulting in a cliffhanger that is more annoying than suspenseful to someone who is waiting to see a resolution to at least one problem. This book was long-awaited by fans of the series, but disappoints in that its only purpose is to set up affairs for Book 11, in which (presumably) the characters will quit ruminating and do something and (hopefully) most of the minor characters and subplots will get killed off.
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Summary: glad I borrowed it from the library...
Review: ...Overall I still enjoy the series, although the cliched "why are women so hard to understand" writing is starting to grate...
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Summary: Same Old Same Old
Review: Ho, hum...yet another Wheel of Time book in which nothing happens. I can't believe I wasted money on this book, let alone slogged all the way through it. Jordan is a workmanlike writer at best and is completely uninspired here, except by the large dollar signs this series continues to bring in based on its promising but now squandered beginnings seven books ago. Will this series ever end? Don't hold your breath as long as Jordan and TOR still make money from it. I wouldn't be surprised to see the 4 or so major characters split off into book series of their own in order to keep this tedious material going as long as people will pay for it.
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Summary: Fairly boring.
Review: I wont repeat the words of the other reviewers. Crossroads should be about 100 pages long max. Taking chapter after chapter after chapter to tell us about how the aes sedai hate chairs that fold up under them is not quite what I had in mind when I purchased the book.
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Summary: Content? What Content?
Review: The guidelines for writing a book review say I should focus on the books content. Unfortunately, this book *has* no content to speak of. Jordan needs to learn how to write, Harriet needs to learn how to edit, and TOR should stop treating him as infallible because he most definitely is fallible. CoT is the proof of that. The Wheel of Time series has jumped the shark, and the sharp decline in quality of the past three books after such a promising beginning is truly sad.
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Summary: Don't be fooled by fans with terribly low expectations!
Review: Well, I was excited about reading this book. That lasted until around page 50, where I wondered when anything good was going to happen. By the end of the book I realized with the exception of one thing happening with Egwene (at the very end), Jordan took us nowhere slowly. As I read the other reviews I can't help wonder why even a die-hard fan would give this more than the minimum 1 star. Most of these say it's a case of Jordan setting up the next big books. I think they've been saying that for 4 books now. Don't fall for it. ... Don't do it! Don't fork over cash for this book. Try a different author instead!
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