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Summary: Please do something!
Review: I love how people try to defend this guy. "Oh, this is just a setup book, yadda, yadda, yadda." As far as I'm concerned brotherless Shaido, how many houses will support Elayne and the fact that EVERY OTHER LINE READS "She smoothed her dresses" does not constitute a stetup book for me. Worst book of series, not worst of all time.
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Summary: awsome!!!
Review: Jordens done it again! Another splendid well written novel.
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Summary: Give it a break
Review: I get soo tired of hearing people trash Robert Jordan, it makes me sick. If he sucks so bad then why have you read all ten books? (not to mention re-reading 1-9 to remember all the charecters in book ten.) If he sucks soo bad then why are his sales figures so high. If he sucks soo bad, then why will I find the same damn people complaining about book eleven when it comes out! Give it a break!
You all say the last four books have been boring (what other author has readers complaing about the last FOUR books - think about that, people usually stop at one.) Well, I can think of another author who was thought of as boring, long winded, and over descriptive in his narration. His name was JRR Tolkien. What made him popular in the generations after was the rich and complex world he created. Ever read the Silmarilian? You'll think RJ's books are plenty exciting after that.
In anycase, if RJ's books aren't exciting enough, stop reading them. Go read romance novels or something. I hear there's plenty of action in those.
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Summary: Hmmm......
Review: I have red all ten of the Wheel of Time Books and have come to the conclusion that: We are are on a downward spiral that appears to have no end. I could have wrote this book in half the pages he did. Of course then I would miss the thouroughly interesting paragraph about the Aes Sedai smoothing her skirts for the fifth time in six lines and how the pale green embroidery did not quite mach with the faded lace that shouhdn't be worn in Tear, where usually people wear dark green. Oh darn. I have heard so much description of clothing and how people look from each city that I'm about ready to give up. As for the plot, well that needs help to. I find it amazing that in the first book they went from Edmonds Field to the Blight while in the last three books they can hardly leave one city. What happened to the fast paced action from the first to books? ANd for crying out loud, nobody stays in touch anymore. Even though the Dragon Reborn is huge and is shaking the world, Egwene doesn't have a clue what he is doing. You think she would of heard something about him, somehow. Yet then again, Salidar was found in two books and is located in a forest, while the "black tower" is just outside of camelyn, recruits are pouring in, and hardly anyone knows where it is.
Anyway, the book isn't quite as negative as I make it out to be, but it is the worst of the series. Out of a hundred, here are my ratings for all the other books.
1-100
Book 1:95
Book 2: 99
Book 3: 88
Book 4: 93Book 5: 89
Book 6: 89
Book 7: 93
Book 8: 88
Book 9: 89
Book 10: 78 Hope you found this review helpful!
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Summary: Starting to deserve the backlash
Review: It'd be interesting to take a poll and see how many people who are buying this series are still actively enjoying it and how many are just purchasing it through inertia, praying that each current book is the one that finally lays the series to rest. I think Jordan has finally worn out everyone's patience, however, given that out of two thousand reviews he can only muster an average of one star I don't think that's a good sign. But for the most part I don't think that's really unfair, my high rating is way out of whack but that's because I have weird star-awarding criteria and to be honest my lone five star review is barely going to make a dent in the deluge of one-star reviews. And I really can't blame those people. We were given a tiny morsel of hope in the last book ("Winter's Heart" for those just tuning in) that things might start happening again with Rand cleansing the male half of the Source, but instead we're treated to More of the Same in this volume, back to the wheel spinning that made books seven and eight so universally hated. Back then, we all thought they were just weird blips in the series, now it seems that the glacial plotting is the norm. Which isn't a huge deal, if something happened during the course of six hundred pages, but nothing really ever does, the characters fiddle about, talk about doing stuff, argue over doing stuff, hint at doing stuff, but never actually go out and do anything, so it's like everyone is caught in a flood of indecision and nothing really ever gets accomplished, or if the plot does move forward a baby step, it's washed away in the sea of static that makes up the rest of the book. The other day I was in my local bookstore and I started paging through the first four volumes or so to remind myself of what had made me start reading the series to begin with. And what's missing now is definitely a sense of urgency and mystery. When the series started the Last Battle seemed just around the corner, everyone was running for their lives from the agents of the Dark One and it was rather exciting. Now who knows when the Last Battle even is, the characters seem to be just killing time until they reach that point. And as for mystery, remember in the beginning how new everything was, how Rand had no idea what was happening him or what anyone was talking about and how he tried to stay out of all of it because he didn't want to go mad? I don't know if it's a case of familiarity breeding contempt but we've spent too much time with these characters, there's nothing new to discover about them so they just keep repeating the same mannerisms over and over again. With the plot on auto-pilot (or on hold) there's no place left for the characters to grow. When they make a decision it just seems arbitrary, just dictated by the aimless plot. So what does this book have to offer the wary reader? Unfortunately not too much . . . Jordan continues his style of decompressed storytelling, which means that conversations are spread across chapters and all sense of drama is lost. It's like you're reading the book in real-time, experiencing everything with the characters, and not in a good way. Things that should be important aren't even mentioned. Rand's cleansing of the Source? Not even brought up until two thirds of the way through and if there's any repurcussions from the event, it's nothing we can see. Men channel the same as ever. Remember how Faile was captured in the beginning of the last book . . . well she doesn't even appear and it's still not resolved by the end of this volume. Jordan has to start beginning and ending plots in the same book, otherwise he just strings the reader along. Each book used to have a specific set of plots that connected and advanced the main plot and made each individual volume a separate reading experience, now they just all blur together indistinctly. Mat's sections threaten to bring back the absurd male/female issues that took over so many other sections of past books. Everywhere you look there's something you can criticize until it stops becoming fun and starts becoming cruel. Are there bright spots to the books . . . sure, Jordan is a good writer and there are some nice individual moments, but in the end it doesn't add up to much and certainly nothing memorable. Perrin does the most memorable thing perhaps, but after the shock wears off, it becomes an issue of "who cares?" What we as the readers are left with are four straight books where only one or two major things have happened, with the possibility that it might all be wrapped up in two more books somehow. And considering how beautifully it started (go reread Eye of the World's prologue and tell me it doesn't want to make you keep reading) that's just sad. Jordan has created a real world here, unfortunately it's become too much like our world, mundane in its routines (where did all the Dark One's minions go?) and certainly nothing that offers an escape. And people have been saying these things for the last few books now, and I'm sure Mr Jordan has heard them, and nothing has changed. Which either means he's doing this deliberately to stretch things out or he's just stopped caring. Or maybe it's neither, but the fact remains that a series that I used to read out of compulsion has become merely habit, a world I check in on every few years to make sure it's still there. And a lot of people don't even go that far anymore. What's a reader to do? Alas, the only thing I can recommend is wait until it finishes (whenever that is) and read the entire thing straight through. Maybe it'll be worth it then, but right now, there's barely any reason to care.
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Summary: For those that have lost the way.
Review: Although many of you have given this less than stunning reviews, I will be the one to come forward and give a good review to a book that I, honestly, loved more than any book in this series since the sixth book (just about when you could justifiably ask what is happening to the books). Many noted that it advanced nothing but (and I will give a spoiler warning for the next few sentences) Perrin is right there, about to take the Aeil, Matt is about to marry the Daughter of the Nine Moons, Rand has sent a peace treaty to the Senchean to gain alleigence for the upcoming Last Battle (and Matt's amrriage will most likely seal this deal), the rebel Ai'sedi are at Tar Valon and Egwene is inside the White Tower (granted as a captive). All of this sets up for a VERY exciting eleventh book and a FINAL twelveth book (Jordan said the series will end at 12, but he said the same at book 3. I'm going to trust him on this though as the books actually seem to be wrapping up). Others say it is boring. I will give you that to an extent. It is boring during parts if you are not prepared, but I found it not only palatable, but also a book I couldn't put down at times (an experience I had not gotten since book five). Honestly, the prolouge was the best I've read, ever, in any of the books. Call me crazy, but it set up the story well with a blend of excitement and interesting information fleshing out the world Jordan has created even more than it already was (especially in how politics work, which I found almost mesmorising). How did I gain such excitement out of a truely bland book (I will admit it is nothing compared to the first five of the series). The way I did it was simply abstinence. I stopped reading it for about 8 months then read synopsis of the first 9 books, which got me jazzed up enough to almost convince me to read all the books again. I then read to book, which I saw in a new light. The 8 and 9 books were mind numbingly boring, but after reading their synopsis I realized just how much I loved reading the whole story, I remembered all the details I had forgotten and facts the synopsis didn't cover I remembered acutely. Sure it is a stretch, having to read synopsis of all the books just to gain joy out of the tenth seems a cheat on Jordan's part, shouldn't the book be good in and of itself? Yes. But that doesn't make this book bad. The tenth was a filler, but the eleventh was a bridge (just like Tolkein's The Two Towers, ultimatley boring, but it set up the best one of them all), and this is why I'm convinced that the next book will be one of the best of the series, and the one after to be the last. And I will be sad, like a true fan should be, not relieved, and definitely I won't abandon it in its final stretch. In a marathon only the beginning and end are ever exciting, just getting started fast, and ending fast. The rest is just running. I'm convinced this series in turing onto the home stretch.
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Summary: wot is going in rj's head?
Review: i'm sure we would all like to know. by now i think there is nothing more to say on the amount of boredom crossroads inflicts on readers. the wheel of time is turning so slow, it has practically stopped. i seriously don't see the point in jordan's rambling on and on and on about suspicious aes sedai and reluctant heroes. maybe in the beginning it was a great inspiration, but now it has lost its spark. i am tired of hearing about the differences of males and females and the hints that they could never get alone. all the characters are beginning to annoy me. usually i am a patient reader, but i finished this book in a night, which really says a lot. (as you can guess i skimmed many chapters). the ending sucks. so do the characters. now rj is adding random stuff that will probably never get resolved until in the next decade or two. i have just discovered that jordan is calling his next book (book eleven of the neverending wot series) "knife of dreams". !!! what is that?? don't expect too much from this series. true, it was quite interesting in the first 7 books, but from then on the quality slopes down a great deal. i certainly did not enjoy crossroads and i don't think anyone in his/her right mind would. i can only hope for the next book(s) to be better. but i doubt that rj will ever get a serious ending to this series. i believe what he is missing is inspiration and the passion for writing. now it seems like writing the wheel of time is just a chore, a duty heavier than a mountain.
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Summary: The Wheel of Time has stopped turning
Review: ...please...Robert, please! When I first read Eye of the World, I thought to myself
"Good heavens, this is ALMOST as good as Tolkien. Incredible!"
I kept reading. I never felt that emotion again, but man did I enjoy this series. Lord of Chaos ended with a bang, with Demandred's "Did I not do well, Great Lord?" Classic. And then, while writing A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan became stilled. I don't mean he lost the One Power. I mean he lost all ability to WRITE. It would be pointless to echo every other review done here about this book. It is boring, pointless, and frankly a struggle to read. I wanted to like it. I really did. This sums up my feelings of the book: After reading it twice, I can remember and tell you only ONE thing that happened in the book. Perrin cuts a hand off and throws his axe away. That's all I can remember. THAT'S ALL. You see my point? DIE, Jordan, DIE!!! Or, write a better sequel. And remember, this is fantasy, not Vogue magazine. We want swords, not skirts.
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Summary: Not the Best
Review: ok (...)i just finished listening to y'all write those terrible things about the books. I have to say that it must really be crappy to read the books out of order! my uncle came and visited us in october (he was on book 5) and told us that this was a good series and we should read it. my mom went out and bought the first book and started reading in January. I started in February and finished yesterday (the 16th). my uncle is still on book 5. i liked all of the books, however, i must agree that this one moved a little slow. When you all complain about the flustered Aes Sedai smoothing their skirts, did you ever stop to think about the fact that maybe he's emphasising that for a reason? obviously not. for anyone out there who wants to read the books, read them in succession and don't read other books in between-from other peoples reviews, it seems to help to read them all at once.
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Summary: Never Thought It Would Happen
Review: I loved books one through five, I, unlike some readers, loved books 6, 7, and 8, but enough is enough. Book 9 was mostly filler and I still gave RJ the benefit of the doubt. But book 10 read like a VCR instruction manual. I FORCED myself to read 300 pages of it and couldn't go any further. I believe books 9 and 10 could have been combined, reduced to half the length, and been a heck of a lot better. It's made me wonder what's going on. I've come up with a few theories: 1. RJ's drinking a lot, 2. He's far too busy with his tours and has hired a ghostwriter, 3. He's smoking pot, 4. He is sadistic by nature and enjoys torturing what few fans remains, 5. Robert Jordan just doesn't give a damn about his readers.
Don't waste your time just to end up disappointed with what could have been the greatest series since Tolkien ( actually it's an injustice to compare Jordan with such a brilliant man as Tolkien ).
It makes me sick, literally, to think that I used to eagerly anticipate Jordan's next book and always felt sad when I was through because it was so great. I think the series should be named The Series That Almost Was.
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