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Summary: Like a bad Movie Sequel
Review: I've waited years to read the resolution of the various plots that Jordan created in the first nine books - and like a bad movie sequel - utter disappointment is my reward. I read the book in about two days - and as I approached the last 100 pages I kept hoping something would happen - Thanks for nothing.
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Summary: They could have saved a few forests...
Review: ...Did we really need to cut down more forests for this long-winded bore. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Summary: Worthless
Review: This book is a waste of time. As some reviewers have noted, there are about 30 worthwhile pages in the entire book. What do I mean by that? Well there are about 30 pages in which the action moves forward, or decisions are made. In the other 650 or so pages, we get extensive detail regarding a day or so in the lives of a number of characters. Much of that time is spent reflecting on the various quandries facing the characters. The problem is that they are uniformly uninteresting. If reading 100+ page descriptions of how each character reacts to the main events of book nine sound riveting, then by all means add this to your cart, otherwise read something else. The reason I, for one, was immediately hooked by the early books of the series, was the excellent pacing, interesting characters and the excellent world creation. Jordan has abandoned any pretense of story telling and has become a medieval chronicler, merely jotting down details without thought to their importance. As many have noted, Martin's book isn't too far away at this point, so pre-order that and re-read the early Jordan if your fantasy fix must be sated.
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Summary: Hang your head in shame, Robert Jordan...
Review: Rest assured, I am boxing this book up and sending back to Tor. How they can release this as an actual installment, I'll never know. I thought Path of Daggers was a waste of my time, but this takes the cake.
I had given up on The Wheel of Time after Path of Daggers, but I was talked into reading Winter's Heart - and I didn't regret it. Something happened in that book - something huge, actually. But now, I think I'm done.
This whole book is broken into very distinct sections each following the same pattern: Take a main character, provide 2-4 chapters of chatting and thinking, then one or two chapters of what is happening on the other side of that particular plot line. Rinse, Repeat for each character (Mat, Perrin, Elayne, Egwene, Rand). Notice I said "chatting and thinking", not "doing" or "acting".
The book is 672 pages long - the first 400 pages all take place during the last chapter of Winters Heart - and Rand finally makes an appearance around page 450.
And that "something huge" that happened in Winter's Heart? No effect. Might as well not have happened.
Go to Google Groups, look up rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan, and read something with [spoilers] at the end of the subject line. Save yourself the time and money.
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Summary: Time to grease the axle
Review: I first began reading The Wheel of Time books in eigth grade, and they swept me away like no other author save Tolkein. Jordan's world was developed, practical, realistic, incredibly full in detail, and strangely compelling. I am now a graduate student, and the series is not yet ended. Jordan has produced 10 books, and is seemingly nowhere close to the end of the series. Not only that, each of the last five books seems to be worse than the one before. Now, don't get me wrong--I am aware of the complexities of modern publishing, and I am aware that my tastes as a reader have changed considerably since I first began the series. However, after a reasonable degree of consideration, I cannot escape the conclusion that Jordan is either/or: (1) artificially prolonging the series in the name of profit, or (2) floundering because he truly doesn't know how to get the characters from where they are now to where his vision of the last book says they should be. The evidence in favor of these conclusions is overwhelming. In the last five books, the action has increasingly stalled, the dialogue has become trite and repetitive, and the characters have ceased to develop in any meaningful way. Rand may or may not be crazy, Perrin is confirmed as being OCD when it comes to Faile, and Mat is still getting by on luck. The women are all the same, the Aiel and other 'helper' characters are interchangeable, and the cultural sidenotes that once fleshed out the driving stories have become rote recitations for no other purpose than to fill up space.This is the way things stand in book ten, and it is the way they have stood since book five. However, I do think that Crossroad of Twilight represents the worst of this trend, particularly in light of the fact that the previous book, Winter's Heart, actually firmed up and tried to make some serious plot advancements. Leaving off with saidin cleansed, Rand unconscious, and Mat finally having met his future wife, I felt sure that this book would finally begin to pick up the pace a bit. Instead, Jordan provides a serious disappointment. Although certain plot advancements (Mat and Tuon and the bit with the ghosts) are of interest, for the most part the book reads very slowly. I found myself frequently skipping ahead over large chunks of the book, and only going back later so that I wouldn't feel I had wasted my money. The book not only reads badly, it is also written badly. The dialogue is sloppy. The attention to minute detail (such as the clothes a character is wearing) over personal development is frustrating. Both Jordan and his editor seem to have forgotten how to recognize the beginner's mistakes of overwriting, diffusion of ideas, and lack of characterization. I love the characters not for who they are in the most recent books, but for the promise they provided in the early works. Whereas once I waited eagerly for the next installment in the series, I now find myself simply keeping up out of a morbid curiousity to see when the whole shambling wreck that has become The Wheel of Time will finally shudder to a halt. This book is not quite terrible (sorry, but I have to reserve that for Terry Goodkind's latest stuff), but it is far less than Jordan is capable of producing, and he should be ashamed to have something this slapdash published with his name on the cover. If you're a Wheel of Time junkie, then no doubt you will ignore anything I or anyone else has to say, and you will find a reason to buy and love the book anyway. If you're just mildly curious, send Tor an economic hint that this book fails to live up to even a reasonable degree of expectations:...
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Summary: Can't ask for more from a writer!
Review: Ok, so there was no "action" in this book. I am astounded at Robert Jordans talent! It must be incredibly difficult to write a book that contains lost of dialogue and ALOT of thoughts, and still keep people reading! I loved the feeling of "everything is coming to a head really soon!"
Thank you Robert Jordan for the wonderful book, and the inspiration!
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Summary: Talmadge Williams
Review: The wheel of time spins forever. Going round and round. Never stopping, all things that were will be, and all that will be have been. The Wheel of Time series is one of the best every written in this genre. However, the latest installment simple does not live up to the high standards set in previous books. If you have read the first nine books, then by all means continue on, because you know what to expect. Mr. Jordan has managed to take a 200 page story and fill over 600 pages. This installment appears to be happening at the same time as the last chapter in the last book. Since the event only took one chapter in the last book, I understand why this book drags so much. Mat and Egwene do not accomplish anything in this book. Both play large parts, but in the end do nothing of importance. Mr. Jordan seems to have set the stage for something momentous to happen in his next book. However, the last book was supposed to have set events to allow for something exciting to happen in this book. My fear is that someone has decided that there is too much money to be made with this series, and it will never end. Each book will become more monotonous than the last, and accomplishing only the smallest amount. If this latest installment is any indication, then my fear is starting to come true.
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Summary: Major Diappointment
Review: I have read all of the books in this series and have found the last two to be major disappointments when compared to the first 2 or 3. As one reviewer mentioned, 600 pages and nothing has happened. Quite frankly I couldn't care less how descriptive the dress of any certain individual is. I mean I read half a page to see what the person is wearing, nothing but fluff. To wait 2 years for this book and to read almost 700 pages of fluff. A major diappointment. Jordan says he plans on writing at least 2 more books in this series. The way the action has gone in the last 2 or 3 books, it would take another 10 to get to the fianl battle.
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Summary: Could this be the reverse of book 6?
Review: I mean by this.... Book six is really a continuation of book five but with to many pages to fit in one binding. After reading this book I see it as the first half of one very long installment. The other reviewers are correct though, nothing really happens. Also, one reviewer mentions that you should wait and see how many more books there will be. According to Mr. Jordan, as of last fall, there will be two more installments.
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Summary: Enough, already
Review: Although I have nothing new to add to the vast majority of reviews already submitted, I just wanted to help bring the average rating down to where it belongs. The truly horrible, sad, and depressing fact about this series is that you could skip both this book and the last and not have missed a thing. A man who might have been one of the greatest fantasy writers ever is quickly being mired in mediocrity by the weight of the last 1500+ pages of garbage he has produced. I'd gladly wait 5 years between books if they could even approach the beginning books in this series. As it is, I'll wait for his next one to hit the discount table before I waste my money again.
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