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Summary: I have figured out the final battle
Review: The final battle will be Rand fighting the Dark One to start time back up again. As it is, Shaitan has managed to stop the wheel of time. Folks, this book has got to be the prelude to the final battle. I swear to Him above - all time has stopped in this book. Holy smokes. I'm starting to think that RJ died and that an admin is using MS Word to regurgitate his last 3 volumes.Wow.
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Summary: Skip this one. 700 pages of nothing!
Review: I started reading the Wheel Of Time series over ten years ago since there were only three books available which were amazing but the last ones have gotten worse and worse especially considering the wait between each one. I was really hoping that after Rand FINALLY accomplished something at the end of the last book that the series would start to pick up again in pace. This book was completely the opposite of that. There are no battles, no forsaken, no major magic used or any real conflicts just a bunch of characters treading water. At the end, they are basically in the same situations as they were at the start with no plot resolution or character development whatsoever. Rand doesn't even appear until around page 550 gets less time than some minor characters. The major players have no interaction at all which is especially disappointing considering they have the capability of instantaneous travel! The only reason I even finished the book was that I starting skimming pages and skipping the ones describing the weather, clothes, how much this character hates men or other drivel. I started hoping the Dark One would escape and kill all these whining characters so at least something would happen. It's become completely obvious that Jordan is just milking the cash cow for all it's worth by stretching it out as long as possible. He needs a decent editor to filter out all of the garbage and force the series towards a conclusion but at this point it doesn't look like that's going to happen as long as the books keep selling. If you feel like you have to read this one because you've been following the series then check it out at a library although honestly you could skip it and not miss a thing.
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Summary: Jordan ovbiously doesn't care about his fans
Review: I loved the first six books. Absolutely. Maybe not the ends of the first two, where Rand seemingly killed the Dark one both times -- but once Jordon realized the popularity and the scope he could achieve with the world he was creating, the series became absolutely brilliant. Books three through six are as good as any fantasy ever written. Then things slowed down. It was alright when book seven was slower than the first six because so much had been happening, but then book eight was even slower, and book nine even slower than that. Almost everyone complained, and begged Jordan to increase the pace, to start tying up some of the many unimportant subplots he had for some reason created, and to start moving things forward again. Enough with the politics and agonizing over decisons. Enough with the politcs and nothing happening. Enough with the politics and ever growing cast of useless political infighters. The politics were interesting as a background for the story -- but not as the story itself. In response, after two years of waiting, Jordan has given us book ten -- in which once again nothing happens. Nothing. If I hadn't enjoyed the first six books so much, I would never have finished this one. If Jordan hadn't created some very powerfull characters that I cared about so much in the first six books, I wouldn't have been able to stomach all the pointless, bland, anoying, time wasting characters he's concocted for the last few installments. Characters that take up enough space to relegate Rand to minor suporting status in this newest book. But Jordan doesn't realize that we don't need new characters. We don't need new subplots. And, dear God, we don't need any more politics. And another thing, he seems to assume that his fans are so devoted that we remember every detail of what every character is up to at all times, despite the similiar sounding names, the huge cast, and the large breaks between books. But I certainly don't. I read bwtween fifty and sixty books a year, watch movies, work full time, play games, hang out with friends -- I don't spend my life memorizing houses, names, plots within plots, and just waiting the two years between books to prove that I remember every little detail of what every little minor character is doing and/or plotting. But Jordan despite filling page after page with words that many of his fans have trouble slogging through, can't seem to see fit to remind us of things that have happened in previous books. Instead of introducing a character that went off on a pointless quest many years back (real world time) and reminding us what that quest was, or what the character's motivation was, or who they're planning to betray, or whatever, he seems to go out of his way to give as few clues as possible -- as if he's punishing those of us not devoted enough to dig through the previous books to remind ourselves. Anyway, as many others have said, this book is merely about hundreds of people continuing to try to minipulate each other, women being brats, bullies, or nags (which is getting REALLY old,) and nothing actually moving the story forward. I give it two stars only because of fond remeberences of the past. To sum up, I have stopped recomending this series to anyone. I will finish it because the first six books will make me, but I won't try to convince anyone to subject themselves to the frustration of the last four. Hopefully the next book will make me change my mind. Hopefully the pay off of the final books in the series will make these last few worth slogging through. I've been a fan of Jordan's since reading Conan the Victorious probably fifteen or sixteen years ago, and I know he can be a tremendous writer. Hopefully he shows us what he can do with the next book. Hopefully some of the greatest characters in fantasy and one of the greatest fantasy worlds ever goes out in style. But I said the same thing after book nine.
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Summary: This is it?
Review: I can't believe I waited for this for two years. Enough for me, I'm finished with this series. Take away the "Jordan verbosity," and you have an interesting trilogy. I can't sit through another five or six years of waiting and prequels to get to the end of this. Save your money. Find other ways to entertain yourself.
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Summary: I'm Convinced--the series now stinks
Review: Yes, the book is a disgraceful mess. Authors are notoriously self-indulgent at times, but Jordan really seems to have gone off the deep end here. His publisher must be terrified that everyone will catch on (the plot has become "let's make more money and string the readers along as long as possible") and bail out. Fortunately, [others] seem to realize, all too well, that the fix is on and this book is an insult to all of the WoT's faithful fans. That so many reviews have misspellings and grammical errors shows to me that they were written in a grip of angry passion about the book's myriad shortcomings and Jordan's inexcusable money-grubbing. Give it up, readers!...
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Summary: Wish it were longer.....
Review: Halfway through the book I could tell that there would be not be much plot advancement. Each major character gets a few consecutive chapters and Jordan moves on to the next. Either Jordan got to a point where he said "good enough" and stopped writing, or the plot has gotten so involved in his head he has no choice but to take up an entire book and still not have gotten anywhere. It does not help that the major charcters are all spread out. A great read for anyone who follows the series, just do not expect any major plot breakthrough. It will surely leave you wishing book 11 is available sooner than the Jordan standard of 2 years.
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Summary: The soap opera continues
Review: Wasn't this supposed to be a trilogy?? I think Jordan has derailed any hope of making this series a classic for posterity. It started our with such promise. The richness in imagery is still there, but the bible isn't this long. I can only wonder at his motives. After the first three versions, each has become more protracted with less movement forward in the plot. He should have written a trilogy and then added supplemental books. I feel I have been had and after watching an interview in which his arrogance was apparent, I am ready to scrap the series. Here it is folks, the ending: Rand perishes in the grand finale at Mount Doom (whoops wrong book) and his buddies return to the shire (whoops). Some get married and live happily ever after and some carry the scars to their deaths. And, everyone gets stilled and the fireworks guys take over.
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Summary: Where is he going with this?
Review: It has been 2-1/2 years since book 9 came out. At the end of it, Rand cleansed the male half of the true source, Saidin. Now in the 10th book Jordan spends the first two-thirds of the book explaining what everyone else is doing during the cleansing. I agree with the other comments posted here. This book is a very big disappointment. Jordan had a lot of fans in the beginning, but they are starting to dwindle. If he doesn't finish this series soon, his series will be come to known as a bad one. It already has the makings of one, and he is walking a thin line right now in whether he'll be able to finish this well or not. He says it will take at least 3 more books to finish it. I hope he is reading this because I want to say Mr. Jordan, enough with all of the descriptive details. Please leave some of it to our imaginations. Your descriptions, while good, are lengthy and overdone. You lose us in the plot, and all of the descriptions is what is dragging this series on. Please finish this series at the end of Book 12. If your next books are anywhere near like this one, then prepare for ultimate failure. Other than that, be prepared to fill in a few words here and there that he left out of sentences. And like the others said, not much happens and more doors are opened. I only hope, for Jordan's sake, that the plot gets a lot better in Book 11 (which if he plans to keep us interested needs to be released next year).
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Summary: A Whole Bunch of Nothing
Review: While the book is written well, it is filled with a whole bunch of nothing. I think this is a dirty trick the author is playing. There are so many stories being told, that at this rate, the series will require 50 or more books to complete the story. It's time to start tying them together. I really don't want to be 50 years older waiting for the end of the story. But then, I suppose that is good for his wallet. I say, get the story told!!!
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Summary: Crossroads of the Never Ending....
Review: To put it bluntly: "This book [is bad]!" 700 pages ... . Let me say, I do love the series and I re-read everything before the release of each book. But book 10 is completely worthless and anyone can skip this whole book and not miss anything. The book spends 500 pages telling you about what other people were doing during events that happened in book 9. Nothing at all was accomplished in this book, no battles, no moves, nothing more or less then people talking to each other. I can't believe I actually spent so long waiting for this book to be released.
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