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Summary: Jordan Does it Again
Review: Jordan continues to weave a spellbinding look into another world. The characters are becoming as real as possible in prose. We've seen them grow, change, mature, love, defend, betray, and live or die. Truly a remarkable series and a wonderful book.
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Summary: I don't think that he knows what's going to happen next
Review: I've never seen a book that spent so much time going nowhere. In the entire book, nothing happened to advance the story. There was not a single confrontation involving channeling. Come to think of it, there was not a single confrontation. I think that either Jordan has no idea how to finish this story or he is trying milk this series and extend it indefinitely. He'd probably make more money if he wrapped it up and just got down to selling "deluxe gift boxed sets". At this pace, no one will be around to read the conclusion. We all will have long ago given up on him ever finishing.
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Summary: Where's the Editor?
Review: I wonder if the answer to the riddle, Why endless pages of nothing? is that Mr. Jordan is so in love with his characters that he can't bear the thought of finishing the series? It's quite possible that his characters are so dear to him--after all, he has lived with them for many years, and they have made him rich--that he simply cannot imagine being parted from them, and he is so close to them that he imagines that many readers will share his abiding interest in their clothing, jewelry, mannerisms, and thoughts. This is why he needs an editor, a tough editor, who will make him TELL THE STORY. Without one, this series will probably go on forever and ever, and cover less and less time, until we wind up with books discussing the favorite foods and fashions of the various characters. (I guess that has already happened, to some extent.) Someone needs to tell Mr. Jordan, forcefully, to bring this thing to an end--someone who has control of his advances and fees. He obviously cannot control his writing, which has become an obsession.
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Summary: Cure for Insomnia or For Mashchists Only
Review: Very very very very bad. I'm sure those enjoying this book must also love reading & musing about ingredient labels on the most simple food stuff. Tor and Robert Jordan should be ashamed for the train wreck they've allowed to happen. So much promise and potential down the drain.
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Summary: Worst Book EVER
Review: All I can say is awful, truly awful. This book has to be the biggest waist of paper ever. Not a single thing happens in this book.
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Summary: Major disapointment
Review: The epilogue was almost 100 pages !!!!!
The editor must take some of the blame for this mess,
its book# 10 and Jordan is introducing new characters.
Wrap this monster up !!!!!
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Summary: Who takes honey with their tea in the WOT world
Review: If you want to read 600 pages of detail about which Aes Sedai takes honey with their tea in the Wheel of Time world, what they have for dinner each night, how many weevils they have to take out of each night's soup bowl, then this is a book for you. If you are interested at all in books where the story makes even minor progress towards some climax, then I would say skip this installment of the WOT series. The story seems to be maybe 50 pages worth of actual story content, in between hundreds of pages of filler describing mundane details of the day to day life of WOT characters, some of them not even part of the main story that I could tell. I hope Robert Jordan quits wasting all our time with the next book, otherwise he will lose whatever WOT readers are left.
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Summary: Dont you know what started it all????
Review: When you read these books, remember that he is making up how the ending is going to work. I interviewed him in 1991, asking him how he came up with WOT and he stated "I dreamed the ending first..." Yes these books are set ups, but that's because he is working backward and has to show how everybody gets to their final position. Read these for the characters and the dialog, not just the action. I truly believe he is master wordsmith and the end will justify the means.
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Summary: A waste of my time, and a betrayal of my trust
Review: People reading this should realize that I used to love Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. I would spend hours discussing the nuances of the plot with my closest friends, I could quote most of the prophecies, and I wrote my high school senior thesis on the clever ways he links in archetypes of tales of all cultures. I've tried to keep loving this series, even though it's been all downhill since A Crown of Swords. But this book is really the last straw. I didn't buy this book, I borrowed it from a friend, and I'm glad I did. The plot is awful! Slow, boring, and I had to force myself through the inertia to finish reading it. Contrast this with when a new Wheel of Time book came out back in the "good old days" when I would get the book during the day and read it all day and into the night without stopping... The plot touches on each of the major characters, as well as many minor ones, and that's part of the problem. They're practically all separated, and each get just one 3-5 chapter look before we cut away to another character's story, and a few of them are lucky enough to get a second look at the end. If you think that makes for slow story advancement, you are understating. NOTHING HAPPENS IN THIS BOOK! The common thread in the first part of the book is the characters trying to understand what Rand did at the end of the last book (which by the end of the book, it seems that nobody knows what is going on all the same). The same politics continue with scant changes. The same quests meander on with no conclusion. A romance advances a little. That's about it. I will not buy this book, I will not buy the next book, I don't think I will even read the next book. Robert Jordan has either truly just started pumping out books indefinitely for money, or he has entirely lost control of his story. Either way, this series, which I once loved, which once was my favorite, is dead.
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Summary: Too many critics
Review: While I agree with the complaint most people have that the 10th installment is not as good as some previous efforts, I disagree with all the criticsm. The book is extremely detailed, possibly a little too much, but it is extremely well written. The character developement Jordan undertakes is a testament to his genius. I have read few other books that give the reader so much insight into the inner workings of the characters. Jordan undertook an enormous task in the early books by developing so many major characters. Even the critics must agree that the character developement is what has made this epic so magnificent. When a writer can make his readers become attached to the characters, he/she has truly become a master of the craft. By the time we reach this 10th book, the story lines are so divergent, yet Jordan has clearly begun to bring them back together. Rather than see this as a loss of control as some critics have said, I see this a testament to the grand story telling ability Jordan posses. He has been able to blend multiple characters into a singular story line early on, then allow each character to delve into a unique yet connected journey. Jordan coud have easily written multiple books dealing with each of these separate characters. Maybe this would have enabled him to keep the faster pace of the first 5 books, but he instead has kept them all together in a time ordered manner which moves slower, but works just as well. This 10th offering delivers the makings for a grand reintroduction of the multiple story lines back into a well defined finale. I applaud Jordan's moxy in undertaking the telling of this epic odyssey. This book while not as exciting as previous volumes and having extraneous prologue, plays a major role in the development of the story. I enjoyed reading it and look anxiously towards the next volume.
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