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Summary: For the love of the Light, CONCLUDE IT
Review: Ya know, I really love the Wheel of Time series. The setting is great, the story arc is epic, and the world he paints is vivid. However, as many have said already, he seems to have lost all drive; CoT seems to be gliding along in neutral, barely moving along, and sustained only be the inertia of the previous books. I *just* finished reading CoT, and I keep thinking that I somehow only got half a book; nothing actually happens. Perrin does nothing, Rand does nothing, Egwene does nothing, etc etc. I found myself impatiently reading the sections that weren't about mat; they seemed to be just fluff and filler. Yet more descriptions of people not related at all to the plot, yet more pointless places they visit (So Harbor - had all the markings of a fun mini-plot - the dead walking in a village, yet Perrin leaves after getting the grain. *sigh*) The Tuon - Mat plot was nice I thought, but even that didn't get concluded. I pity the people that spent what - 30 bucks a book * 11 - they must start to be feeling like the've subscribed to one of those DVD or CD clubs that hook you with the $0.49 offer.
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Summary: A short story....
Review: i was complaining to my friend who originally got me into these books about how bad this book was.(worst book i have ever finished). he said "i didn't think it was that bad"...i replied how can you say that nothing happens 95% of the book...he looked at me with confusion, then understanding came to his face..."you dont still read the chpts about perrin or the girls do you? I stopped reading those chpts 4 books ago" DOH...changes everything...great short story about matt and the dotnm...still only gets 1 star for enviromental insensitivity for wasting all of that paper for the pages surrounding the short story...
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Summary: ok, ok
Review: In comparison, this book is highly aggravating for it's lack of any real "action." But as in rest of the series, there are several plot lines going on at once. All of the plots of equal importance while Rand's story has taken something of the back seat for the time being. If you will recall, during many of the other books, it has mentioned that without all of his friends stuggling through their own individual hardships, he will fail. Rand has always been a main character, more of a central character than the rest, but never THE main character. Although this book is quite tedious, there is still much of the neverending political intrigue which has been prevelant in Jordans writing since the begining. I enjoyed the book, but am begining to wonder if much of the unnecessary fluff was put in to help Mr. Jordan's growing addiction to the almighty dollar.
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Summary: Least satisfying so far
Review: Do yourself a favor and do not read this book until installment 11 comes out. As far as I'm concerned, there is only half a story here--I should say half of 5 stories. Nothing momentous happens in this book, and every thread ends in some sort of cliff-hanger. As another reviewer stated, this book felt more like Path of Daggers than any other in the series, only I think it was even more anticlimactic and less satisfying. Part of the problem is that Jordan is still trying to fully develop 5 completely separate plot threads. In earlier stories, it was quite acceptable to have many main characters, since the reader was generally just learning about one or two plot lines from several different perspectives. Now, though, Mat, Perrin, Egwene, Elayne and Rand are all pursuing seperate adventures in their own corner of the world, and each one is given nearly equal importance. In fact, Rand's story is severely neglected in this book, because literally the entire first half is devoted to getting you caught up on what happened to each of the other characters while Rand was doing his thing in Winter's Heart. Given Jordan's verbose writing style, not very much ground is covered with each character's meager share of a 600 page book. The best thing I can say about Crossroads of Twilight is that the seeds have been planted for some exciting storytelling to come. I can only hope that in book 11 those seeds bear fruit. It would help if Jordan could manage to tie together at least some of the plot threads.
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Summary: Retitle it: "Wheel of Time: Manual of Fashions and Tantrums"
Review: You know the best way to read these last few books - start off by reading a page at the beginning of each chapter to get your bearings and then skim as soon as the word "dress"(or any mention of clothing) comes up or a when a character gets flustered - after an average of about 5 pages and then start to read again. That's when the next minor thing will happen - like Perrin will take a second step. Cause the book really reads like this - Egwene looks at Tar Valon, puts on foot over the sadle, then notices Nynaeve is wearing.. [insert five pages on fashion and temper tantrums]...Egwene settles herself in the saddle. I'm only really reading still because he was so damn good at pacing and story in the 4th book. What happened?
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Summary: The difference between a good author and a great one
Review: is the ability to end. There is nothing harder than to pull everything together, truly finish a work. Jordan with his last 5 books has firmly(and sadly) placed himself in the former category instead of the latter where I thought he was surely bound for the first 5. We read fantasy for storytelling. It's ok when there are no "hack and slash" action sequences. It is even just fine if most of a book is conversation. I understand when an author doesn't have the best grasp of human emotion and writes most of his characters as an endless stereotype. I'll forgive a fantasy author who can't write love at all other than having it just appear with no explanation and no build up(see Elayne and Rand), Jordan isn't a romance writer after all. But the plot needs to move. The story needs to flow. It simply does not here. When an author creates trivial new plot elements his characters need to deal with(and deal with for thousands of pages) in later books of a series, it isn't story telling. It is filler pure and simple no matter how ugly that word sounds. I understand that maybe this book and the books during the last 6 years of my life are leading up to something great. I understand that Jordan probably thinks this is the culmination of his life and I respect that he wants to make everything perfect and give us all there is in his head. He thinks that when we reach the end we'll all believe he was right. The problem simply is that he's not. Readers 50 years from now will be told by librarians to skip books 6-10(11) and just read a pamphlet or something that sums up all that happens. Tolkien was never a very good writer. Jordan is his superior easily in terms of writing talent. I think most of you readers objectively will agree Tolkien would have been better suited writing history. But that man had an imagination and a story to tell. He knew where it was going to go and he knew where it was going to end. He never published the stuff that is coming out now because he knew it was just garbage in his head, not a part of his vision, his tale that he was telling us. Jordan should have been great. Instead he'll forever settle for only being good. I will buy the rest of his books as I've bought every one up until now. But Mr. Jordan, please finish soon. Your loyal readers have been ready for a lifetime. Richard Yang
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Summary: Not quite so action packed, but still RJ good
Review: This book is more in the vein of The Path of Daggers, Jordan's eighth. It's definitely a less action packed installation, and unfortunately, too many readers misinterpret less action for less quality. This just isn't true. Jordan uses very different tactics to make this work shine, and shine it does. The discovery of darkhound prints in the snow and the appearance of ghosts as the veil of reality thins are great examples of this. It's just too bad that so many people can't seem to appreciate a great book, simply because there's not much killing. The ending to Winter's Heart was fantastic, but the cliffhanger at the end of this book is also a great way to leave us hanging. This is an excellent series, good enough to advance plot on its own terms, without having to resort to violent final scenes in every book. For that, Jordan has to be commended. This book, like the series as a whole, is a masterpiece.
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Summary: Crap
Review: The absolute worst piece of crap I've ever been subjected to. There ought to be laws covering crimes such as this.
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Summary: More setup for what is sure to be more setup
Review: Hey, take it easy people! This is just setup for next volume's necessary setup of the subsequent volume's setting up.
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Summary: 1 of 1668
Review: Here are the customer review ratings for the Wheel of Time series, as of 11/7/03 1. The Eye of the World: 4.2 stars
2. The Great Hunt: 4.5 stars
3. The Dragon Reborn: 4.3 stars
4. The Shadow Rising: 4.3 stars
5. The Fires of Heaven: 4 stars
6. Lord of Chaos: 4 stars
7. A Crown of Swords: 3.9 stars
8. The Path of Daggers: 2.8 stars
9. Winter's Heart: 3.3 stars
10. Crossroads of Twilight: 1.7 stars To fulfill your fantasy needs, read up to Book 7. To indulge in self-pity (set yourself up for dissappointment) read Books 8, 9, and 10.
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