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Summary: Crossroads of Twilight, by Robert Jordan
Review: Garbage, After starting this series with maybe the best books that I have read, Robert Jordan has decided to put out some of the most worthless reading that I have had to endure. It is a shame with the storie line he has developed that he is putting out books that are better read reading a sentence ever third page. Come on!!! Get your mug out of the bottle and start writing again.
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Summary: I'm Done
Review: Mr. Jordan has taken character and plot development to a new level...total boredom. I just read in one reader review that he, Jordan, said that he is writing for himself. Good for you Robert, another innovation in literature...well more like commercial writing, the author doesn't care what his readers think. I suppose that's fair. After reading this book I realized that I no longer care what happens... so I made up my own ending. At the current rate not many of us will survive to read the ending anyway. Actually I'm beginning to think that it would be more fun if the Dark One and his Darkfriends win in the end.
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Summary: a plea for our sanity
Review: It is obvious from the large number of reviewers for this book that there are many people out there who have liked this series, and would like it again, if the big bang of events and would cease to stop expanding and start collapsing toward the end. Perhaps the galaxies of this book have expanded too far for them ever to come back again. But, given that so many reviewers express hope that an end is in sight, that the books could surprise and delight us (and not with more new subplots), Mr. Jordan, please hear our plea. We want to enjoy reading your books again.
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Summary: TOR should be embarassed
Review: I pitty Robert Jordan. He honestly believes this was a publishable book. His editors at TOR should be fired, fired for not having the moxy to stand up to Jordan and say "This book is nothing but a crappy re-write of book 9." At one point I started counting how many pages of paper were wasted to write a simple sentence. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING new happens until the second to last page (hard cover edition). I heard an interview recently where Jordan said he didn't care about the criticism this book has recieved because he is writing the books for himself, well Mr. Jordan, do yourself a favor and hire a new editor because this was horrible! If this isn't some ploy to make even more money out of devoted fans than Mr. Jordan trully has lost his ability to write exciting stories.
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Summary: Must be in it for the money . . .
Review: What started out as a good series has now turned into a page churner. This book feels like a cheap attempt to drag the plot line out even farther just to make cash off another book. End it already!
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Summary: an expected disappointment
Review: Everyone else has expounded on it to no end, but I'd like a bit of tooth tossing myself. How both, or even one, the author and publisher, decide that any of the books 7-10(being kind, because 5 got iffy, and 6 was the real downhill start) were printable is beyond me. Use to be it was something as simple as Nyenave(sp) tugging on her darn braid 50 times a chapter that got me steamed. Now it's main plots that have me fixin to burn Jordan himself with some balefire. Maybe if I use a light touch, we can drag him back to book 6 again, and see of the daggers are more than just a title, and perhaps the thrusts of a great book. After all tht ridiculous houey about cleansing Saidin, stupid bowl of winds, daughter of the 37 million moons, what more do we know? Rand still can barely hold the source, and everyone else is just about 3 baby steps further down the plot than 3-4 books ago. Add to that the 3 damn years between books, and even I, a 'used to be' great follower of the series, can no longer keep track of who is doing what. What does the stupid review say? Publisher's saying how great it is to have new characters...?!?! Give me a break! Let's kill off some of this main cast, boil some blood, consolidate the plot, KILL of EVERY main character that has a name the least bit similar to another main character!!!! , argh! I've always been someone who wants to buy a book, have and to hold, build my library, re-read, et cetra! However, unless some freak event occurs where RJ releases a 2k page novel to bring it all back in line, which I would actually read if he was able to get it together again, it's library rental or bust for me from now on. So, forgive me everyone who I recommended this series so highly too 7 years ago, but trust that I'm suffering along with you, as I can't quite let go, but I can darn sure endeavor to keep my coins from furthering this sadistic, and very scarey to say, L.Ron Hubbard like, never ending string of worsening tangling of words... I'm sorry.
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Summary: Dissapointing
Review: Robert Jordan has lost his writing edge. The action packed political twisters that his first books were are just a memory now. As more and more of his books come out, his writing has slowed down. Crossroads of Twilight, a 800-plus page book focuses on what all the other characters in the book were doing when Rand was cleansing saidan in book # nine. As those of you who read Winters Heart know, from the time Rand and Nyneave link and when Cadsuane packs away the access keys, few more then twenty pages have passed. So how, one asks, does the author write an 800 page book (Crossroads of Twilight) around these events? By using tedious descriptions that go for pages. I feel that all the information that was interesting or worth knowing could be consolidated into a 25 page prologue for book #11. There are no fight scenes, no love scenes, no revealing discussions. The best part of the book was probably at the end, with Egwene...(I won't give it away)
The 100 page prologue was an adjunct of the book. Come to think of it, the book was an adjunct of the series. Not only that, if you do read the book, Rand does not even appear until page 657. Even including the epilogue, it is a strech to say he is in the book for a full twenty pages! The main character! This would be fine if the other characters were doing interesting things, BUT THEY ARE NOT! I would advise everyone to wait for book # 11. I still have faith in RJ, but if number 11 continues in this fashion, i might just give up.
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Summary: Not great, but still OK.
Review: Basically this book is about what everyone else was doing up to and around the time of Rand's little mission at the end of the previous book. In other words, there is as good as no furtherance of the story. But I thought it was still interesting, and funny... The others are right about the pages being filled with page filling descriptions, but I guess I could just see beyond that.
So it's a step down from Winter's Heart, but I found it better than The Path of Daggers at least, which was even slower. But don't pick this book up to expect any action, just more details about what everyone except Rand is up to at the current timeline of the story. The part with Mat and a certain daughter of nine moons was enjoyable as always, for instance. Too bad the whole twist of them supposed to get married was so easy to see through. Oh well.
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Summary: Worthless
Review: I started to lose interest in this series after the sixth book, and wish I had stopped there. The last four have been painful to read. If the descriptions of the clothing were eliminated, the last four books would have amounted to about 200 pages combined. Agonizingly slow and boring.
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Summary: The Series Is Officially Dead.
Review: When I reached page 498, I realized that Rand had died in book nine. For those of you who are confused, I think Jordan hid Rand's death somewhere after the epilogue in the extensive glossary. I came to this conclusion, because I knew no sane writer would write such a long and boring 500 pages without ONCE including the main character... unless... unless he had some crazy brilliant ulterior motive. It's either that or Jordan needed some quick cash. Now, I don't think I spent all these many hours reading his book just to make him richer, do you?
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