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Summary: OMG
Review: is this book written by the same author or did he take a vacation somewhere and had one of his editors write this bs?With the exception of some death-watch guard, this book doesnt move forward at all. It just a fills in what everyone else does while Rand was cleanse the taint on the source. This book has no plot what-so-ever. Its definitely the worst book that RJ has ever written. I'll still be buying his books just to see to the end of the series, but wont be recommending this series to any more friends.
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Summary: Tell me how it ends
Review: I simply cannot take another one of these installments. It became quite clear to me half way through this book that it was going nowhere so I decided to not finish it. There are entirely too many characters and after two years I have absolutely no idea who is who. There seem to be a million different Aes Sedai, Senchan, Sea Folk, Kin and Etc. Keeping them straight is difficult and when they do close to nothing, it seems pointless to try. This book was simply awful. I am deeply disappointed as once I looked forward to each installment with great joy, now, I will simply have to ask one of the poor souls who continue to suffer how it ended. I foresee this conversation taking place in ten to twenty years.
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Summary: will it ever end?
Review: All right, enough is enough. Am I the only one who thinks that this last book is just a sad attempt to draw the story out even further? How much longer can this series go on? Let's break the book down. Perrin spends the whole time trying to find his wife and rescue her. Which obviously isn't going to happen any time soon. Mat babysits the Daughter of the Nine Moons and starts to think that maybe he really does want to marry her. Rand doesn't even appear til two-thirds of the way through the book. Nynaeve is casually mentioned once as being a silly girl head over heels. Elayne still isn't crowned Queen, we saw almost no sign of the Forsaken. Egwene plays her games with the Aes Sedai, but at least she appears to be doing something.
When I started to read these books, I loved them. The first 6 were filled with action. The 7th started to slow down a bit, but the last three have just dragged on. The only reason I even read this book is because I've put so much time into reading this series that it would be a waste not to. The way it's going though, it'll take another book just to get close to Tarmon Gai'don and another to get through it. I don't even know if I'll bother reading the others. Which is a shame because I really do enjoy the first books. If these last books weren't so filled with description of every tiny detail, maybe something would actually get done.
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Summary: What a waste
Review: Thanks go to everyone for their reviews of this book. I'd give this book a zero if I could. I thought the first six were among the best books I've read, but the series has started to lag. It looked to be picking up again at the end of Winter's Heart, so I had high hopes for this book. I've spoken with many of my Jordan-reading friends and they all concur - do not buy this book. It's completely worthless. I'm currently reading a friend's copy and won't pick up a copy of my own until it's available at the bookstore discounted to paperback prices. I need it for my "collection", but am now wary of Jordan. I won't be buying another WoT book at list price until Jordan can prove himself. What absolute drivel; I think the man has lost his thread. I expect the next two books to be possibly the best in the series IF the plot commences again, but really. You could take books 7-10 and condense them into one long book. Nothing significant has happened at ALL in the past 5+ years of reading this series. I just hope in the end Jordan can win back his fans, but I simply don't bother to check when the books are coming out anymore. I didn't even know it was out until my friend offered to loan me his copy. I used to love the WoT, but honestly I'm indifferent now. And the series was once so promising ...
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Summary: Didn't we just cleanse the taint??
Review: Didnt we just cleanse the taint?? If you havent read WH, then you arent going to learn from this installment. Arguablely one of the biggest and most important progressions in the entire series, and the story doesnt have one person actually talk about it (except for a brief scene with a single Aes Sedai thinking to herself). I enjoyed the second section with mat. I really wanted Perrin to do something other than learn the wolf smell for a darkhound. and I really wanted to know what anyone, literally anyone! thought about the cleansing. Guess narrative on that little detail would have pushed the more important aspects of the story, like more reflection on the strange pattern in the Hall. Didnt Suian notice already? didn't RJ mention it several times more this time around? And can Egwene do anything anymore besides tell people to 'investigate'? how about some of the new power struggles in the Hall after the decleration of war? Oh well, I never could say no to bad fantasy. C'mon RJ give me some more!!
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Summary: Keep it up, Robert...these reviews are great reading!
Review: I can comfortably say that I will never read one of Mr. Jordan's books, based on the trend of reviews since his first Wheel of Time book; however, I hope he continues with his uninspired and plot-sloppy writing because he has inadvertently generated some of the greatest book reviews I've ever read. At the time of my review, this 10th installment (10th, are you kidding? This guy should write for Reader's Digest.) earned two stars after 413 reviews...wow. How can a publishing company willfully continue to print material that engenders such distaste for literature? I truly believe that a boring fantasy author is as close as it gets to no activity in the frontal lobe (unless you're a waning fantasy-author's book cover artist; I have some Crayons, too, may I be an artist?)...it's not history, man! You're not writing a thesis on Peruvian bush weevils. If Jordan's future books get any worse, and it sounds like he's beating a path in that direction, Mass Market Publishing will face the dilemma of supporting a Sominex-writing fantasy author, or risk having his increasingly tenuous fan base dig their eyes out with a bookmark. Neither path seems a very good source of future revenue. Again, I will probably never read one of Jordan's books...but I can't wait for his next attempt in anticipation of the reviews it will get. I'm beside myself with excitement knowing that an uninspired fantasy will not read as good as the people who will eventually critique it. Keep it up, Robert!
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Summary: How do you spell bad?
Review: Answer: Crossroads of Twilight. What happened Rob? Was it the rack? Was the wheelbarrow full of cash simply too much for you to resist? How did they make you descend to this level? I'm not one to demand constant action in a book or novel, prior to reading this I'd read 5 biographies in a row, but come on. Nothing happened. Nothing. WTF? You could very easily just read the final chapter to be prepared for the next book...or not read it at all honestly. The last 4-5 books have descended to Dickensian indirectness without the associated skills as a wordsmith. We get 700+ pages of blathering idiocy, unrealistic (God help him if they're based on someone he knows)women who are all witches with a capital B and no plot progression. Do you remember the cleansing of Saidin? Doesn't seem like any of the characters do. You'd think it would be a pivotal event or something. Egads this book is horrible! I actually wrote a review of this book that wasn't posted because, my guess, of the incessant cursing in it. The first five books are very interesting and well written. Let's go back and pretend that Mr. Jordan disappeared upon completing the Fires of Heaven and mourn that he couldn't finish this series.
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Summary: A Word Processor with the runs. And Plot Constipation
Review: Jordan needs to get off the Pot and do something with these characters. We all waited for 2 years for a Book that could have been written in 2-3 Months. Nothing really happened Plot-wise. But it took over 500 pages simply to get back to Rand. Proving my point of running off at the word Processor. If he had bothered to actually advance one or two of his plotlines substantially it would have been acceptable. But every character that could channnel had nothing to say but "Holy ...." from all the power being channeled in the last book. Making no real headway whatsoever in any of the story lines. Jordan needs to stop his plotlines from wandering all over the place and consolidate some of them in the next book. Otherwise it will be another case of Plot Constipation. Because there wont be room for anything to advance at all. Since at least half the main characters can Travel it shouldn't take more than 5-10 pages per plotline to begin to bring things together. But jordan will probably spend 50-100 pages doing the samething while describing what each character had for breakfast. If we are lucky Book 11 will actually start to bring some of this mess to a close. So Book 12 will FINALLY be able to move the story along.
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Summary: Dying of Thirst
Review: Being a Wheel of Time fan is like being in a dessert, dying of thirst. When a new book comes out, it's like finding a canteen or an oasis. You pray for water. Even if the water is tepid and salty you savor each drop. Crossroads is a cup of foul brine. Nothing happens! What have I been waiting for. A cliffhanger ending was the last thing this book needed.
Three more years for the next book! Please Mr. Jordan, write the books that made me one of your biggest fans. I feel ill. :(
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Summary: Wait for the paperback.
Review: Not One Battle scene in the entire book.
No major decisions or events.
In fact, the entire thing was like reading deleted scenes from the last book. Scenes that could have been left deleted. Perrin chases his own tail, Matt courts his future wife, Egwene watches the rebels chase their tails, Rand makes a cameo appearance and the bad guys are either all on vacation or doing equally boring things of their own. Definitely NOT worth the price of buying in hardback. Very disapointing.
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