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Summary: Lost Control
Review: I'm amazed at the number of negative reviews posted here. It is a measure of the intensity of the disappointment that people who have read the 9 previous books (would anyone read this as their first WOT book?) and really want to like this book are so annoyed with it.I too read this book with mounting annoyance, as I realised that Faile would not be rescued, or, in fact that virtually none of the issues outstanding at the beginning of the book would be settled, or even progressed much. On reflection, I think that Jordan has completely lost control of his work. There are just too many storylines going on for someone who now writes in such a laborious manner. There are at least 7 POV characters in this book - Mat, Perrin, Faile, Elayne, Rand, Egwene and the ones in the White Tower (I've probably missed one or two - I think there were some Seanchan POV characters as well). Now out of 680 pages, 94 get spent on a Prologue of at best tangential relevance to the rest of this book. This leaves him 600 pages for the main storylines, ie less than 100 per character. When you can spend 200 pages on setting up a meeting (Winters Heart) or spend 3 pages starting a meeting of Aes Sedai, you are not going to get a lot of plot progression. If all the characters were still together then he would have 600 pages to devote to one storyline, which might progress a bit. Another problem that he has created for himself is, that by giving most of his characters the ability to travel pretty much anywhere instantaneously, he's denied himself some of the mechanisms to put sub plots into the background for a while. For example, by having them spending time travelling (although with Jordan's current style he'd probably describe every rut on the road for all three months of marching!). My conclusion is that, unless he drastically prunes his sub plots and/or massively tightens his writing style that subsequent books are unlikely to accelerate the glacier like progress of this epic. I will definitely wait until the reviews to buy the next one, and I'm glad that I only paid a heavily discounted price from a bookshop's closing down sale.
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Summary: Much Ado About nothing
Review: Well I finally ended reading Jordan's 10th torment. I have to say it was not as bad as I thought it might be but sure hell could have skipped a few chapters and get to the good stuff which apparently takes place in the last ..20 pages? Cmon, it is time for this series to end, unfortunately marketing is a wonderful business; I do hope that book 11 picks up the pace to a very satisfying conclusion. We deserve it MR JORDAN!!!! Let the final battle begin!!!
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Summary: I'd rather just read the cliff's notes.
Review: This book is the worst installment of a series that has rapidly made me lose interest. I have absolutely no interest in a never ending story. When I was over halfway through this book, it suddenly struck me that absolutely NOTHING had happened so far in the book. It hadn't even progressed to where the LAST book ended! With most of the book behind me, all I had read about was a bunch of characters THINKING about what they MIGHT DO NEXT! I have no interest in reading any more books in this series. I've invested enough time in them to want to know how it ends, but I'll probably just wait till they're done (probably never) and just read somebody's synopsis of what happends. Jordan's writing, which I used to enjoy, now seems tired and jaded to me. I do NOT need to be reminded several times in every book how every little device in the WOT universe works, but this seems to be Jordan's favorite way of overcoming writer's block. Every time one of his characters has a thought or an emotion, I feel like I've seen it a million times before. Sometimes, I can predict how entire pages of dialogue will progress. Reading the Wheel of Time is like WORK to me now. I do not enjoy it, and I do not recommend it.
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Summary: the wheel of time keeps going, and going....
Review: is the one source really the Energizer bunny? it would seem so. i found myself skimming through many pages of boring drivel trying to get to the next important passage that would represent an advancement of the plot. does RJ read these reviews? i hope so. after 300 pages, the only time i've noticed the source used was to iron the skirts of an aes sedai. how terribly boring. most of the book seems to focus on neurotic women and their power struggles. i'm skipping the next books which will also be about nothing, and i'll buy the conclusion, which will be in about 20 years.
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Summary: Not the best book in the series for action and adventure
Review: This is my first review and granted, I agree with most of the reviews that this book is not the expected works from Robert Jordan that we have all come to love. But with the developments of the fisrt nine books, I feel that our expectations are set way too high. I have yet to read a series with more than three books that have not turned me away from wanting to read beyond that. WOT is one series that has me anticipating each and every release. COT may not have the in depth plots and all out battle against the dark one at the conclusion, but has many little nuances that Mr. Jordan will undoubtedly tie in with the next book or two. As with all of Mr. Jordans books, if you miss something, you will be missing an important aspect that will undoubtedly tie in later down the road. Everything leads to something else if one just picks up all the hints. There are times when I want the epic to continue forever, but I am also eager to find out the outcome in the Last Battle. Even though that is a foregone conclusion, but I am sure that RJ will make it an end to remember. As for COT, the entire book focuses not where WH left off, but concurently with the events that transpired throughout Winters Heart. I for one will certainly re-read COT just to pick out the events that will make the next book in the series easier to follow. If you enjoyed the first nine books in the series, I definitely would not give up on one book that is building up for the end even if it goes a little overkill on details of frivolent technicalities. COT is still well worth the read and I will stick it out to the end.
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Summary: Stop the Madness
Review: As a WOT reader for 10+ years, I'm ready to stop. If even one person writes a negative review of Book 11, I'm done. This book was mindless drivel, for the first time in 10 books I skipped large chunks of endless debate with no adverse effect in understanding. I consider myself reasonably able to keep up with the myriad of characters, but by now I don't even CARE who's a possible Darkfriend and who's not. Will Robert Jordan ever actually write something worth reading again? By then will any of the original diehard fans have totally lost interest in this series? Nothing of substance happens in this book until the last few chapters, so wait for the paperback or just check it out at your local library.
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Summary: Ignore Any Good Reviews.....
Review: This is a filler book of epic proportions. If you have a weak heart and like the idea of nearly 700 pages of conversation and description then this is the book for you. There is no action to speak of so you wont get too excited reading it. Like most of the other people giving this book bad reviews I have read books 1 to 9 and enjoyed them. Book 10 is just a vehicle for killing time and taking our money. Shame on you, Robert Jordan. To paraphrase a previous reviewer, anyone who gives the book more than one star either works for the publisher or is related to Robert Jordan.
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Summary: Guess I'm in for the long haul
Review: Its a bit daunting to realize how long ago it was that I picked up the Eye of the World and signed myself up for this journey. While creating an epic story on a wonderfully grand style, Jordan is dragging this out for quite a bit. When my wife got this for me as a present I noticed that the book was shorter than others in the series and that was my first warning sign. Jordan seems to need 1000+ pages to get things to happen so it seemed book 10 would be "treading water," which it is. I'll buy book 11 (in paperback - not hard cover) just because I like the characters & story, but I'm starting to doubt this story will be done in this decade.
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Summary: Same as the last 3...would give it 0 stars if I could...
Review: ... we started out loving this series ... We continue to read in hope that something...ANYTHING...will happen and revive our passion for these books. We still want to know what happens and how it all will end. ...
I will continue to read these books because I want to know what happens, but I have not bought a book since the letdown of book 7. I get the books ... and skip any paragraph that seems useless, which is most of them. This way I miss NOTHING ...it also makes for a much shorter and more enjoyable read. I encourage everyone to do the same. ...
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Summary: If "No Stars" was an option, I would have chosen it.
Review: Bought the book. Waste of money except that a complete series is worth more than one with a book missing. I kept wondering (as others have it seems) why the characters can't get together every now and then (in a sort of WOT teleconference) to strategize, compare notes, or just complain to each other? The strongest part of the early WOT books was the interplay between these friends. Jordan has ripped them apart from each other (for no other reason than to sell more books it seems). And in the process he has obscured them by cluttering up the book with pointless details. We no longer know what is in their hearts. We used to know how Rand felt, and what he was thinking. We could see inside him. Now it seems that Jordan thinks we are Darkfriends as he won't let even us inside Rand's head. Jordan has not replaced what he took away from us when he relegated our heroes to players in the ensemble. We don't get to know any others in depth. Are there no other heroes in the Lands of whom we should know? Seems not. We can't see into their hearts. It seems Jordan has lost his way. There were six seals on the Dark One's tomb. That makes six books plus one more to tie it all together. Now we are book ten with more than a thousand characters? These are serious symptoms of an author with a writer's problem-- the opposite of writer's block it would seem. Anyway. As many others have said, you can skip this book without missing a thing. I read the first couple hundred pages, skipped to end and never felt like reading the in-between. And since I'm complaining, I might also add that I mourn the loss of Moiraine. Surely in the infinite possibility of fantasy fiction, she isn't really dead . . .
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