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Summary: not as good as his best, but look at the competition
Review: This is probably the worst book in the Wheel of Time Series so far. However, I think that's a bit like saying the chocolate is Hershey's rather than Godiva. I'm not planning to read this two or three times like I did some of the other ones, and I sold my copy of the hardcover edition, but I did enjoy reading it once. Favorite characters appear and do interesting things. Maybe not as interesting as before, but there aren't enough decent fantasy epics in the world to make this a waste in paperback. If you don't have it, I'd get it now and use it for treadmill reading.
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Summary: I AM DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: As the title says I AM DONE! Reading Jordan's books that is. It took me three weeks to finally finish this incredibly boring edition in the WoT series. There were over 800 pages of absolutely nothing. Nothing but paragraph long sentences that you had to read three times to figure out that they didn't say anything. Robert Jordan, don't give up your day job. (unless it's writing)
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Summary: The Wheel of Time has Stopped Turning long ago.
Review: I have about 50 pages left in CoT, so maybe it can save itself, but I'm not holding my breath. It's amazing, I checked too books out of the libary this month: Stephen King's "Dark Tower V" and Robby J's "Crossroads of Twighlight". One I couldn't put down, one I could hardly bring myself to keep reading. Guess which is which.I feel live I've invested so much time in the WoT series that I have to finish it...but it's been several books since it's really been interesting. It appalls me that Jordan is still introducing new plotlines and characters at this point. There's very little mention of the Forsaken, a single mention of Moridin (some new uber-Forsaken introduced several books ago), but mostly just endless bickering between Aes Sedai. I wish they'd just go away, but he spends most of this book going back and forth between Elayne and co and Egwene and her crew, neither plotline is progressing at all or is interesting. I was encouraged that Rand cleansed Saidin, but that doesn't seem to have sped this toward a resolution. I just don't think RJ knows where this is going anymore and is either stalling for time, milking his "fans" for money, or both. I used to think the WoT World was fascinating, but now I just want it to end. I'm appalled that despite the outcry for him to pick up the pace and advance the plot of the series, he's gone back and written a prequel!!! Jerk. Hopefully the next book will be better, but I doubt it.
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Summary: The thing that sucks the MOST...
Review: Is how much retarded emotional investment has been put into these friggin' characters. Goddamn, i started reading this series when i was 14, and i'm still sitting here at 24 reading this awful mess. Unfortunately, you fall in love with the characters, the world, and the setting, and you can't get all that crap out of your head. And hell, i'm a rational human being! A medical student! Some day i'll be messing with your body, but even then it'll be nowhere near the mindjob that Jordan has crapped all over us. Obviously, we've all got better things to do, but once in a while you just get pissed off that you care about something so utterly stupid. Read this book if you have to. I know i did, but man... what a price to pay.
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Summary: Misery loves company
Review: Reading the reviews here lets me know that I am not alone in my pain. Robert Jordan's series has become the Titanic of American Literature; once filled with promise but now a pitiable heap at the bottom of many a landfill. Honest readers will admit there were clues to Jordan's poor writing even in the first books; for example a plodding pace followed by final chapters of rushed, super-extra-action! and female characters ALWAYS described the same way, (braid tugging, etc.) I feel sorry for Robert Jordan because he undoubtably reads the Amazon reviews. As do all his peers, friends and family. One-and-a-half stars after 1,800 reviews is a monumental humiliation. Please, Mr. Jordan, finish this series ASAP.
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Summary: therapy
Review: Reading the reviews here has become a form of therapy. I know that I am not alone in my pain. Listening to others describe their disgust with WOT is so reaffirming. Robert Jordan's series has become the Titanic of American Literature; once filled with promise but now a pitiable heap at the bottom of many a landfill. Honest readers will admit there were clues to Jordan's poor writing even in the first books; mainly final chapters packed with rushed, super-extra-action! and female characters ALWAYS described the same way, (braid tugging, etc.) I feel sorry for Robert Jordan because he undoubtably reads the Amazon reviews. As do all his peers, friends and family. One-and-a-half stars after 1,800 reviews is a monumental humiliation. Please, Mr. Jordan, finish this series ASAP.
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Summary: A truly astounding feat, 864 pages and yet NOTHING is said.
Review: I want to preface this review by saying I've enjoyed most of this series, even the last few books but after reading the final pages of 'Crossroads of Twilight' I found myself pacing my apartment trying to think of a way to express my outrage, finally I just threw the book across the room. This is the first time in my life that finishing a book actually made me furious. I don't mind when a story leaves a few threads dangling to increase tension or to keep me involved but this novel takes that to a ridiculous extreme ... this 'book' was the last straw. Jordan's continuing saga has been leaving more and more threads unresolved as the series has progressed and it's finally gone so far that NOTHING is resolved. You could go from book 9 to 11 without missing anything but a bit of exposition about as important as what Rand had for breakfast or what color of socks Perrin prefers. It's not even the artificial extension of this series that really makes me mad, many authors have done this and been entertaining (one of my favorite literary series is 27 books long so far and I enjoy each one). It's Jordan's obvious contempt for his audience that really burns me, he didn't even try to hide the fact that this novel is meaningless filler. How could such a promising and rich story become so empty? Somehow Mr.Jordan has taken a universe, characters and story I love and drawn them out to the point I no longer care how it ends. I will never pick up another 'Wheel of Time' novel unless it is the last and likely not even then. To say I'm disappointed with this book would be a dramatic understatement. DO NOT, under any circumstances, purchase this book. If you absolutely must read it buy a used paperback or better yet get it from a library.
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Summary: Crossroads of Twilight is the best novel I have ever read.
Review: Crossroads of Twilight is a must-read novel. The entomological observations alone were absolutely fascinating. Have you ever wondered what a weevil was? This book will tell you. In very fine detail! Have you yearned for more Jordanesque scintillating sniffs, more slashed skirts, more scenes with slow discussions? Then this is the book for you! If you are addicted to Sunday morning political talk shows and would like to read about fictional feudalistic issues with mythological Machiavellian overtones, CoT will schedule your bureaucratic meetings for you. Don't believe the 1,872 negative naysayers on this review message board - oh no! Who needs substance, plot, action and answers to 10-year-old questions anyway?! Give me more inane, excruciating detail, I say! Give me more chapters of fruitless fluff! Give me 20 more Wheel of Time novels! Cheers to this true Never-ending Story!
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Summary: A book with a loss of purpose.
Review: I read the book when it first came out, even though I agree that the first few books were excellent and the latest have just been average. This one was terrible. The book starts developing an interesting sub-plot with Perrin chasing after an abducted Faile, and just when it gets suspensful and interesting we switch to another more confusing and less intriguing sub-plot. Never fear, right? We'll sooner or (much) later get back to the Perrin/Faile crisis, wouldn't you think? WRONG!!!! The book finishes the second and third sub-plot and forgets it even started the first one! Maybe this is no reflection on Jordan's writing abilities. Maybe the publishers insisted on deadlines or something and that this was a team effort in the making. We can only hope. I'd like to see Jordan return to form and head towards a conclusion. He could probably get it done in two books or less as long as he decides to do it. Until then, I'll stick with Terry Goodkind's novels . . .
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Summary: The wheel got stuck in the middle of the road:o
Review: What can I say which haven't already been said? Well, this was so horrible that I MUST raise my own voice here!
Like so many others I really enjoyed reading the first 6 books, the next 3 slowed untill this last book, when the wheel got stuck in the middle of the road. Now Mr. Jordan has messed up the whole series by telling us what (those brain dead people in WOT) did, when they did it, what they thought, what they drank and ate etc...They never go to toilet? Could be interesting, when one see how Jordan describe things in the smallest details;) I didn't have great expectations about this book, but I was hoping for more than this drivel! There are no progress in COT.
Mat, Perrin and Rand are doing (not much though) and thinking exactly the same as they did in the 3 previous books and the whole affair/story (if one can call it that)last only some weeks in the book, even though it felt like eternity!
Mat has lost his charm, Rand is still a child and needs help all the time (how is it that Rand became more childish the more he grew up??? Perrin is still wondering around looking for his bloody wife, and the women are now worst than ever. Wonder how Roberts wife look like? I never before skiped pages in a fantasy book, with this book my sanity wouldn't allow otherwise. All goes in circle, all that's been said in those 9 books before....ARE SAID AGAIN! Have U noticed that for every sentence said there are 10 pages of explanation? Annoyed??? It's worst than that! Another thing here which bother me is that some here compare Robot Jordan with J.R.R. Tolkien, on how much complex and much depth WOT has.... HELLO FOLKS!:o Tolkien manage to write Lotr in 3 books! A wonderful story which hasn't seen it's equal yet. In WOT the characters are boring and soooo stale. The 1st books was very promising indeed, but money talks! and so it was that Robot Jordan cannot or will not finish this series. Be warned! -This story/series doesn't move an inch any more and there are no constructive writing... Will be interesting to see how long he can drag this series out! There is no problem for one with a little bit of talent (and now I mean just a little talent) to write a book about world and what the poeple in that world thinks, eat, drink and so on... The problem is that very few master that art to write a good book like that. The only one i can think of is Kafka, and Jordan is definitely not Kafkas equal! I will never read anything written by Robert Jordan ever again, but will be back here to read the reviews;) U folks out there writes much better than Robot Jordan! Let us all hope WOT will finish before they nail Jordans coffin shut...or before he drowns in the pool of money he made! P.S. U are aware of that Jordan doesnt care what he fans/readers thinks about his work???? That says much about a man who makes his living of us! (though it can be that his editor, his wife, has written the latest books) -From a former WOT addict, who's now cured:)
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