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Summary: Please end something!!
Review: 680 pages later, and not one thing resolved. If anything, there are less things resolved. The tower is still divided, Faile is still captive, Mat still isnt married, who knows what is going on with the Black Tower, and Rand is barely in the book. Save yourself twenty dollars, buy it in paperback, so maybe after you read it will have less time to wait for a plot line to end. I have been waiting close to 7 years for the tower to be united, and i am 20. Thats more than a third of my life. Some of the other lines are just as old. If Robert Jordan has a heart attack before he closes some of these......
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Summary: Enough is enough
Review: I have been reading the WoT novels for over ten years now, and re-reading. For years I have marvelled over the extraordinary complexity of Mr. Jordan's world-building skills and the continued attention to detail. Like so many others, I eagerly awaited the tenth installment, Crossroads, and having now read it, can say that Mr. Jordan has lost control over the story-line as he focuses on peripheral characters or avoids advancing the plot in favor of character development.Lets face it, if the characters are not fleshed out sufficiently after 9 books and their goals and motivations revealed, its just not going to happen in book 10. Moreover, it is long past time that certain events took place. For example, two books back the "rebel" Aes Sedai commenced the siege of the White Tower. Except wait, by the end of book 10, it still doesn't happen (sorry to give that away). Something's been going on with Mazrim Taim and the Black Tower for over three books, but no plot advancement there in book 10 either. (While we could speculate, wouldn't it just be nice to actually know by this time). I could go on, but in short, I only have the following to say: Enough is enough.
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Summary: This series has become bogged down.
Review: This series has become bogged down.
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Summary: 600+ pages where nothing happens
Review: Warning: Spoilers ahead. Nothing goes anywhere! Except some good stuff between Mat and Tuon. For that, I give the book two stars. Otherwise... I'm a fast reader, but the fact that I finished this book /this/ fast means that I did a lot more skimming then actual reading. The number of people who do not appear, or have only a cameo, is astounding. Include in that ALL the Forsaken except Mesaana, Nynaeve, Cadsuane, Fain, Slayer, Thom, *Rand and Min* - heck, RJ spends more time talking about what one of Graendal's stooges is doing then he focuses on Rand. Everyone seems to take the destruction of Shadar Logoth calmly enough, the rebels are still sitting outside Tar Valon, Mat's still on the run, Perrin's still hunting for Faile... *yawn* Can we get some plot advancement? Maybe? Checking it out at the library is definitely the way to go with this one. It's not worth the cover price.
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Summary: Wait
Review: This was a very disappointed reader. After reading RJ's books over the years I have slowly started to feel a sharp bitterness with his work. Mind I will read his work until his last book is published, but not with the same passion I once did. In Crossroads of Twilight, as in Winters Heart, the story seems to fade. It just seems that RJ is writing so that he can write another book. I won't give away plot or story line, but to say all the main players appear, though Rand isn't seen until three hundred pages in. Few questions are answered, though more are asked. And the end leaves you so twisted you feel like tossing the book across the room. With the probability that the next book won't come out till late 2005 this reader feels disheartened with ever seeing an end to what once was epic series with outstanding depth. Remember it started out as a series of only six books.
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Summary: Trash...
Review: ... utter, contemptable trash. Surely to goodness this will open up some of those Jordanites eyes. Plot movement... non exsistant. Again nothing happens. In fact, CoT beats PoD in terms of sheer boredom. I'll try and not give any real spoilers which so many reviewers here are prone to do... though there is really nothing to spoil. Perrin... his character is probably the only high point in this book... "high point" being a relative term, of course. An ant hill is a high point in the flat wasteland that is the WoT. His character takes a suprising turn in this book... "suprising" equating to clumsy. You'd think that after 9 books, Jordan could have eased Perrin into this attitude adjustment a little better. Like all the emotions and attitudes of the characters in this series, it just comes off as fake. I hardly call this "character development". There really isn't much of Rand. Not much of a loss. Afterall, there really isn't much of a book here either. As far as the rest... it's just Jordan playing around with all the loose ends again... bringing nothing to conclusion. It's obvious that now all he's trying to do in each book is drop a few more tidbits in for his *ahem* fans (I swear, these people make trekkies look sane) to debate over. "Oh gee... saidar seems to be failing. My o' my... what ever could this mean?", exclaims the ever-obssesive-jordanite-who-really-should-get-out-more-or-at-least-try-reading-other-books. Jordan should just turn WoT into a comic book. It's obvious he wants to keep writing this horrid series until his demise, and at least in a comic book format he could drag it out as long as he likes. Of course, he can't charge 21 bucks a pop for a comic book. And also, he'd have to churn 'em out pretty regularly... something obviously beyond his meager abilities. Nothing I say is going to influence most of the hardcore fanatics out there anyway. In their minds, Jordan is a flawless master of the written word... the rest of us are just too stupid to get it.
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Summary: omoi peplegmai kairian plegen eso
Review: This book ought to embarrass its author. After dominating the world of epic fantasy for a decade, RJ has either become so megalomanical that his editors can't reason with him or he just plain lost control of his story. _Crossroads_ is the worst installment in an increasingly tired series. If tarmon gaidon doesn't come soon, the world might just collapse under the weigh of all the cardboard charaters and trite phrases that have appeared in the last three books. Perhaps RJ just plans to flog this dead horse until The Wheel comes full circle.
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Summary: Hmm doesnt seem like the end is any time soon
Review: It has been four days since I received the book and finished reading it a minute ago. That should tell you that it's just another great book of the series. That cleared, I have to say I was disappointed since the book barely advanced a few days from book nine. It simply kept setting up the story for a good end (at least I hope so). If you were not too impressed with the other books in the series that were more about preparing for something to happen later, you wont be too happy about this one. I expected more action since the last one seems to set it all up for a good book. Instead the reader gets more preparations. I have to say that it's still an entertaining continuation of the series and I didn't put it down until I finished it. I might be biased since I love the series and its story with all the sub stories and different characters. I can't wait for the development that the book seems to be building up to. I regret that it might be another year before that happens. Maybe I should have waited until almost the end of the year to read it. :o) (Yeah, right) Mat is probably becoming one of my favorite characters of all time. I wish I were like him. "...And follow Mat wherever he goes to dance with Jack of the Shadows..." I gave it the four stars because it left me wanting but still entertained me. In my opinion Robert Jordan can't write a bad book even if he tried.
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Summary: Jordan, steadfast but lacking
Review: The "wheel" is finally moving. Jordan adds another good chapter to a complex storyline. It is good not excellent. We have all waited two years for this long awaited new chapter in a drawn out saga. Having said that I do believe that the book is a giant leap forward in what has been a dawdling storyline. You begin to believe that the end is drawing near. Mat is as always his usual gambling self, but with the daughter of the nine moons to occupy his time he is not himself. Perrin search for his wife continues and he perhaps loses his innocence in the process. Rand is not mention till the last 3/4 of the book; however, the decisions that he makes will develop the next possible 2 books and keep us coming back for more. It is not The Great Hunt, or The Shadow Rising, but it does keep the storyline moving very good. Read on, for Tarmon Gaidin awaits.
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Summary: not up to standard
Review: well i am irish and i bought this book before christmas and to tell the truth i am rather disappointed. the Mat thing is alright but Rand is all over the place. it would seem that this book is just another filler in. It is not up to the standard of the first four
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