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Summary: First book I ever returned
Review: This is the last Jordan book I ever buy. I'm at around page 100 and still in the Prologue. I don't recognize half the characters or plot twists going on anymore. I'm not about to go back 10 books to try and figure it out. This series started out great but has progresively gotten worse and now it's just obscene. This story could have been told in 6 books, probably less. I'm begning to believe that Mr. Jordan doesn't have an ending for this series and is just trying milk his cash cow for all it's worth.Someone needs to take his pen away and fire his editor. If I could I would have given it 0 stars.
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Summary: Lessons Learned
Review: Ok, Ok, I'm sorry! After all the ... Robert Jordon took for Matt not appearing in Book 8, he decided that he would show the reader what happens if he touches on all of the major plot lines. Well, he wrote a chapter on each of the plot lines, added two new ones, that he didn't have time to do any development on, and published it, that was all he had room for. The development of Matt's relationship with The Daughter of the Nine Moon's was entertaining, but it was the only part of the book that managed to hold my interest. Otherwise, a handful of events occured that may help the plot advance in the future, but probably could have been condensed into 20 pages. The first 250 pages are spent bringing us up to the end of the last book, and should have been part of a 10 page preface. Oh, and the 90+ page preface, that could have been page 11. If he would have done that we would have say 150 pages of Matt (I'm trying to be generous) 20 pages of other plot, and 11 pages of preface. If we're making the book the same length we have another 480 or so pages where we could actually move the plot along, instead of the characters occasionally saying to one another "hey, shouldn't we be doing something?" "No, we've been doing things for 9 books, this is the book where we don't have to do anything." Save your money folks.
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Summary: Who cares?
Review: First I must say I am cursed with the ability of reading extremely fast, I read typical paperbacks in an hour or so. I read constantly and have read more books than many small town libraries own. At the beginning of WoT I thought it was one of the best series ever. After Crossroads, I don't even recommend this series to my friends anymore. I was what could be called a die hard Jordan fan, but this book was just plain boring. Nothing happens but a bunch of one dimensional characters whining about their problems. When reading the previous books in the WoT, I couldn't put them down, I read each one in a single sitting. Not so with Crossroads, I looked for excuses to put the book down. I don't really care for page after page of descriptions of what rooms look like, or what people are wearing, and I especially don't like pages and pages of Perin moaning about Faile and how 'nothing else matters but her' or how everything is always the men's fault and only women really know how to do thing properly. Why even have men in the story at all? DId Jordan die and have his wife publish under his name? Of course none of this matters, Jordan will continue to make money off all of us. After 10 books, almost none of us can stop now. I have been reading since I was 15 and am now 28, but I don't think I really care anymore. For those of you who will defend this [book] by saying 'he is setting up the story' he has been setting it up for 4 books now, I don't think I can take anymore setting up. For those of you who haven't started this series yet, Don't. There is a reason why the best authors rarely have more than 3 books in a series (and almost never more than 6). Well thus begins another 2 year wait. I just hope there [is something worth waiting for] at the end of it.
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Summary: adzs review
Review: i think it is a great book and very well written it has a lot of excitement and suspense and keeps you glued until the last page i could not put it down it was ecellent exceptional!!!
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Summary: So boring...
Review: Book 10 can be summed up thusly: it recaps everything that occured in book 9, itself a stuttering bore until the final pages. This is the book where everyone stops and chats about things, what happened before, what they might like to do in the future. And, of course, endlessly complaining about things that they don't understand. Mat Cauthon, generally regarded as the next most exciting character, next to Rand, spends three chapters deciding to... pick up stakes and move a circus. Perrin spends over a hundred pages ... doing what he did in the last book, exactly nothing worth reading. Elayne spends several chapters discussing how she might consolidate power in Caemlyn. Egwene spends endless time discussing how she might overtake Tar Valon. If you've read the dust jacket you already knew all this! Reading this book is similar to having a friend tell you about a great movie, rather than seeing it yourself. Get to the action, man! Argh!
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Summary: Hmmmm...
Review: This book was extremely disappointing. The first couple of books in this series were very good, but they have most definitly been getting slow. In fact they have slowed down so much, this one literally moved backwards. 680 pages of absolutly nothing. I congradulate you Mr. Jordon, i don't know many authors who could have filled that many pages and yet nothing happened. I guess I'll read the next because the series does have some good characters (the ones i could keep up with) and on the positive side there's nowhere to go but forward, right?
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Summary: How can it be more than 2?
Review: I think we can all agree that Jordan is an excellent author. My disappointment is not in the writing but in the lack of movement within the storyline. I've never skipped a chapter before...before! I guess it'll be another 2 years for the next one. Since this 700 pg prologue sets up a promising 11th book. I would rather wait three years and have something worth reading.
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Summary: Is Robert Jordan still writing these?
Review: This book was terribly disapointing. He spent the first 500 pages retelling the end of the last book,then in great detail nothing much happened the rest of the book. I loved the first books in this series but now I doubt I'll finish it.
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Summary: Muddled.
Review: As with all of the books the writing is excellent and the plot full of deceit and intrigue. However it is far too drawn out slow moving. What Jordan could say in a page he takes a chapter for. Nothing is said about the male half of the True Source being used except for a line or two from Rand's miniscule part in the book. It was somewhat of a trial to get through the whole thing but nonetheless I read on, hoping that something important would happen. Only three very interesting things happened and one of them seems to be the setup for the plot of the next book. Nonetheless I would have to recommend it to people who are fans of the series because let's face it, there are things in here that you will need to know if you are going to read the next book and though it will be a slow ride just hope that the next book will make up for it.
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Summary: Enough already
Review: Ok we get it, Jordan is fantastic at character development, but really, after 1000's of pages, I have a pretty good grip on the characters. I will definatly wait for reviews of 11 and find out if he actually advances the plot before buying it. If (like me) you can't stop reading the series despite its lethargy, check it out from the library.
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