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Summary: Worst yet
Review: I've read the last book by Robert Jordan. I think he must be on an extended vacation and his wife or daughter are writing his books. The 10th installment was the last straw.
AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL BORING BORING BORINGDO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY.
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Summary: Finish the Series Already!!
Review: I've been reading the Wheel of Time series for over a decade!! The author is doing no service to any of the loyal readers by dragging this story painfully ..on and on and on and on ...AND in the meantime writing other books AND a "Prequel" of all things!! I don't care if the good guys all get torturously killed at this point ...just bring it to a CONCLUSION and end my torture!!
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Summary: Why should New Spring be any different?
Review: It's been at least 3 books and 2000 pages since anything has actually happened to advance the plot of the Wheel of Time. Why should this book be any different? At least you can get these things really really really cheap if you wait 6 months and look on half.com.
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Summary: Jordan get worse with every book
Review: It's really sad when a gifted author gets senile at a (relatively) young age, but that must be what has been happening to Jordan over the last 6 or 7 years. Each new book of the WoT series has less plot and coherence, wanders even more aimlessy , and just doesn't tell a 'story' The first 4 books where really good, although even then you could see a definite drop in quality from book 1 to book 4; but now, the story telling is totally lost. Save you money
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Summary: Too bad there's no "Zero Stars" rating......
Review: ...because this dog of a series deserves it. Like most of the folks who've written reviews, I was also enthralled by the first four or five "Wheel of Time" books, but have been increasingly disappointed since then. The quick pace and tight plotting of those first books gave way to the bloated, glacially-paced anchor-dragging navel-gazing that has come to characterize Jordan's most recent WOT books. His obvious disdain for his fans seems to be surpassed only by his greed.
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Summary: It stinks
Review: At the outset of Jordan's famed Wheel of Time series, I thought it was good. Yet one aspect of the series has annoyed me to no end. Every book in the series has, either on the cover or just inside, the clearly erroneous statement from some reviewer: "Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal."
This most recent installment only reinforces what all of us knew from the first; Tolkien has and still dominates that very world that Tolkien came to reveal. I am sick of hearing comparisons. Robert Jordan is an author who thinks of something and writes it down for a relatively small audience and evidently pays little attention to editing and proofreading. Lately, it seems he is stretching his ideas for the sake of his own finances. He is rehashing the same literary machines used by sci fi and fantasy authors throughout the twentieth century. Tolkien spent nearly his entire life constructing a mythology based on language and influenced in part by his experience fighting one of the most terrible of European wars. His book has been read more than any other book in the twentieth century save THE BIBLE. His prose is impeccable, the result of countless revisions and the knowledge that comes with being a doctor of the English language. The book has been received by the world and he has entered the annals of human history as one of its great authors.
Jordan is destined for no such greatness. His first few books are good, but limited to the realm of fantasy, destined to enjoy status as cult classics. His most recent installments, this one especially, have eliminated any hope of comparing him to Tolkien or any of the truly great authors, genre notwithstanding.
Altogether, Jordan has a pretty good fantasy series, but don't expect to see anyone call him the author of the century, however long the wheel of time turns.
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Summary: Should have saved my money.
Review: I was on the hardback trail of this seriers, and I managed to stop reading. Well, while looking around a Borders one day, I noticed CoT there in Paperback, figured I would give it another shot. I got this book on 1/16/2004, it is now 2/2/2004 and I haven't finished it yet. May not sound bad except for the fact that when I *love* a book, it can be finished in just a few nights. Hell, I remember getting one of Eddings books for Christmas one year and ended up spedning the entire afternoon and night reading and finishing it! CoT has put me to sleep several times already! I'm just about to start Chapeter 17, about 3/4 of the way through. Now, consider the fact that RAND HAS NOT SHOWN UP IN THE BOOK YET!!!! If you had got out of this series, don't make the mistake of giving it another shot, Jordan is probably going to drag this out long enough that he will reach the end of a long and prosperous writing career before he finishes this story off. If you haven't already, go read David and Leigh Eddings' books.
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Summary: I'm a complete idiot!
Review: That's it, I'm done with this series!! I can't believe that I've wasted hours and hours of my time reading this crap. The series started out great, then went downhill. I made it to book 10, and that's where it ends. This book is page after page of the most trivial detail... nothing actually happens. If I hear another phrase about 'spiced wine' or 'honeyed tea', I'm going to scream! Not to mention the childish little girls that apparently rule the world... trying to tame the evil men (that are good for nothing but breeding). I think Jordan has gone over the edge and lost his mind. I just wish I could tell him to his face. Then again, I did read 10 (9 1/2 actually) of his books, so it looks like he got the last laugh!
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Summary: I have an Idea
Review: I just finished a new Spenser novel by Robert P. Jordan called "A Back Story". This book is double spaced, printed in a very large font, and has truly massive margins. Yet, Mr. Parker manages to tell a complete story including an actual ending in only 291 pages.
My idea is this: let's take The Wheel of Time away from Robert J. and give it to Robert P. Rand would pick up Lan, Perrin, and a couple of Asha'men, toddle off to Shayol Ghul, kick some Forsaken butt, save the world, and be home in time for dinner. Of course Rand would have to cook because Susan, I mean Min, can't cook.
Wouldn't it be grand!
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Summary: Wheel of time, Chapter 10
Review: OK, so 1902 people have entered a review and it has 1 1/2 stars. I read this book when it first came out, as I have all the books since Eye of the World and simply stated I enjoyed the book. Jordan has slowed down his output and now we're waiting years between books ( remember there was a time that one came out each year ! ). Unlike others who have posted, I want the story to keep goin on and on (some day it will be over and that will be sad). I credit Jordan for taking a needed break and writing a prequel. His writing is slowing down and people are jumping on him, but instead of giving into their wishes to rush the ending he writes a prequel to feed their demands and keeps writing his story his way. Does much happen in book 10, compared to others no, but that's fine with me. I feel like the series is definitely going somewhere and that it is one story.. not ten. It is one big book that he keeps giving us as he completes it, sure he's making money but I wouldn't want to wait another 8 years just to have one book that ends it. I want it as soon as he can get it to me and will pay for each installment as its ready and I will read each book as just the next chapter. I wish everyone could just enjoy what's been written instead of complaining that it's going to slow, but I settle for myself enjoying the whole series and eagerly await book 11,12 and the other prequels.
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