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Summary: Dude, pick up the pace!
Review: I really don't want to be reading book 52 of this series some day. It is a wonderful fantasy world, I love the characters, but we are just plod plod plodding along.
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Summary: Start at page 500
Review: Absolutely nothing happens in the first 500 pages. Total tedium. The last third of the book still doesn't have much going on, but at least some events occur.
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Summary: B O R I N G
Review: This book is perhaps the most boring out of Jordan's series. I thought book 9 would have taken the award, however it seems he must have divided book 9/10 from one long boring read, into 2 boring reads.The only reason this book rates as far as 1 star is I finally get a little glimpse at Mat, who happens to be my favorite character. The chapters with Parrin literally put me to sleep. The book was a total disappointment. It is SHORT. Yes it has been a long time since Jordan has done a long book with some meat. I read quite a lot, and I am of the thought that a 12 book series, where 2/12 books are just prologue for a "great ending" shows Jordan has lost his fire.
The plot moves too slowly. At the end of each chapter I WANT TO put the book down and sleep, not read on like in earlier books. In short: this book reads like a bad episode of The Simpsons. It is a series we have grown to love, yet it disappoints when it falls short of the mark. Two + years per book is discouraging, especially when the last 4-5years have produced subpar books that if they were first editions would have have been published.
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Summary: Much ado about nothing
Review: This story really needs to move along. The book is beautifully written but is very frustrating for fans of the WOT saga like me who are more interested in the storyline than character details. It barely moves forward from the end of Winters Heart when Rand cleaned the taint of Saidin. Most of the book deals with the crossroads that the other characters find themselves during that time. Matt is interesting as usual and the others plod along. The new character of Tuon introduced in WOT-9 is quite good. I personally am at the crossroads of deciding how much longer to stick to this series that has truly had some moments but is now testing my patience. If you haven't bought it yet, you can't possibly be fanatic enough to make it worth the hardcover price.
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Summary: Worthless...
Review: This book was a complete disappointment. If you have read the previous nine books, you can just skip this one. There is absolutely no useful plot development, no action, nothing. I cannot believe I waited two years for this...
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Summary: Doesn't even deserve 1 star! Was there one fight?
Review: CoT doesn't even deserve one bloody star! I am an outraged fan, insulted and a fool for buying this book. The only thing good about this is, hopefully, RJ will actually decide that enough money is enough and he doesn't have to milk it to death. That and Matt and Tuon. That's about it. Two years for this. Unbelivable. Don't buy it or better yet, write your own ending(s)or put yourself in a cryogenic freeze until 2150 when book number 80 is released, "The Absolute Definative Next to the Last Battle. Really. Part IV" by Robert Jordan XXII. Detailed findings of geology in relation to Shayol Ghul and the Breaking. Oh, and Rand is one mile closer to the Last Battle watching everyone sniff at each other. Really.
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Summary: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Review: In "Crossroads of Twilight" Robert Jordan has hit a new low. In each of the previous 9 installments of the Wheel of Time, at least *one* major sub-plot or mystery was brought to some sort of closure. Not so here. Virtually nothing at all happens. Do yourself a favor. Save the ... bucks and wait for the Reader's Digest version. Jordan has "forsaken" his loyal audience in what I can only assume is a crass (albeit successful) attempt to milk every dime out of this now-wearisome psuedo-epic.
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Summary: The Wheel of Time Getting Rusty
Review: I truly enjoyed the first 5-6 books of this series, which maintained a fairly rabid pace of plot development and action. Alas, books 7,8, and 9 were less well crafted, possessing a dogged focus on mundane political details, and endless repetitive references to females crossing arms over breasts and tugging braids of hair. Argh! However, Crossroads of Twilight takes the proverbial cake for an excruciating read filled with absolutely zero plot development. Honestly, the book had less substance than an episode of 'Friends.' I have gotten to the point where I only skim the chapters to find out what happens, and I can tell you right now, it ain't a whole lot. I used to joke with my dad that Robert Jordan would croak before finishing the series. Now I am seriously concerned I may not see the end of the tale, and I am a healthy 27. I may read book 11 at the library for FREE, or better yet I'll save myself the time and catch a rerun of 'ALF' on TV, complete with 30 minutes of plot progression and a minutia of conclusion. Tor books, Robert Jordan, and Nameless Editor should be ashamed. I am aghast at the quality of the writing and the rambling storyline of this series.
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Summary: Boring
Review: If you like reading repetitive descriptions of women's dresses, want to know how many different things can be "pale" and care to know an appearance of every minor character (from hair, eye, and skin colour to a look on the face) then this book is for you. The drivel that is this book is a slap on the face to readers from Rober Jordan. You could have more fun watching grass grow for 2.5 years than reading "The Crossroads of Twilight".
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Summary: Please end something
Review: This book is a complete waste of time, ink, and paper.
Other reviewers have bemoaned the lack of action. There doesn't need to be action if there is progress and conclusion to threads, sub plots, characters. There aren't ANY! In the author bio in the first few books there was a statement that RJ intended to write until they nail the coffin shut. I used to regard that as a promise. Now, I think it is a threat. Victor Hugo would have hidden his head in shame at the useless excess verbage.
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