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Summary: Where's Rand???
Review: Where's Rand??? Almost 700 pages and Rand is only on 17 of them. Jordan has abandoned the story and did not resolve a single issue. Unless, it's that Aes Sedai need to be frequently birched. This book is a MAJOR disappointment and is so filled with grammatical and typographical errors that it's distracting. Mr. Jordan, please go back to true storytelling and editors, do your job. Otherwise, this is a cash cow that may be sent out to pasture.
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Summary: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Review: I have no idea what is going with Robert Jordan. How did such a great series nose dive so badly? I used to rush to the book store the day a new WOT book came out. This book is sooooo slow that I found myself skimming chapters until finding something even slightly interesting to read. After about half way through and *zero* happening I stopped reading, which I never do. I just couldn't take the pain any more. Reading this book is like watching grass grow - except not as exciting. I'm all for character development but he spends paragraphs and paragraphs talking about completely irrelevant details that don't contribute at all to the plot. I'm sure this book turns out just like the last book where nothing happens for the entire book until the final chapter where there's a bunch of fights and action. Maybe I'll read the final chapter when the next book comes out if the reviews indicate that something actually happens in the next book. Don't bother with this one, unless you enjoy reading mind numbing things like the dictionary.
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Summary: More of the same, book and review
Review: I have heard that some authors read the Amazon.com customer reviews of their work. I hope Jordan is one of them. I concur with just about everything that appears in the reviews here. I could not read this book. I tried, but didn't get much past the prologue. I was bored to tears. So, I waited a couple of extra months until the audio version was released, and listened to it, instead. I managed to get through it, barely. I wanted to write this review when I was half-way through the book, but thought "No, I'll be fair and finish it first." I didn't need to be fair, my suspicions were correct. Nothing happens in this book until the last paragraph. By that time, you're so ticked off that you don't really care. The best thing about this book is its title. Everybody is at a Crossroads, and needs to do something, say something, or go somewhere. But nobody does. Mr. Jordan, please! Two more books only: the first to resolve the multi-party conflict of Aes Sedai, Rand, Seanchan, Whitecloaks, Borderland armies, etc.; and the second to fight the Forsaken and the Dark One. Some reviewers are talking about the great set up for the next book. That's what a prologue is supposed to do, give you some set up for the book you're about to read. Instead we must pay 20-30 bucks for a 700 page prologue for the next novel. Here's a question . . . now that the taint is gone, do the male Forsaken really need to hold onto their allegiance?
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Summary: Gack, Jordan plods on - don't pay, use the library
Review: Apparently the publishing firm of TOR Fantasy has never heard the word "editor". Then again, I guess when you have an author
on staff who is making you as much money as Jordan has, you
just let him do what he wants to do.
After about the 3rd book, these have all been excruatingly
slow. Full of meaningless detail, padded pages, etc..., every time I read one I swear I'll never read another. The only thing worse than the slow moving action in this gaga saga is the fact that I keep on reading the darn things. It's been a number of years since I read the 8th book so when I picked up the 9th and 10th ones, I was clueless about who many of the
characters were. But did it matter ? No of course not because nothing is happening in these books. You could basically read about a 5 page synopsis of these 800+ books and now just about all that happens in the story lines. If you must read them, do as I've been doing and use your library. Then write a letter to the editor of the series and tell them to start doing their job. Put a muzzle on Jordan's pen and stop all of the meaningless chatter and detail.
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Summary: ...
Review: It seems many others on this review board have had similar experiences as mine. I started out loving the series, then as it dragged on forever and ever, I quickly lost my enjoyment of reading RJ's books. The first few were excellent, the latest few less so, at the COT awful. RJ's writing is very wordy, and while that worked OK when there was plenty of action in the first books, it's extremely detrimental in the later books, when basically nothing interesting happens. In the previous book to this one, he spends 99% of the book rambling on about people's attire and continuing the immature bickering of his well-developed but stereotyped and unrealistic characters, then spends about 15 pages on action, all of which has so little description you have no idea what's going on and can't really enjoy it. This latest book is extremely boring and doesn't even give you the benefit of 15 pages of action! Definitely glad I borrowed it from the library. Don't bother buying it...I'm wondering, like others in these reviews, if the author is just dragging the series on for the extra $...
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Summary: Save yourself the agony....
Review: Save yourself the agony and do yourself a favor by buying George R.R. Martin's series after putting this sick puppy out of its misery.
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Summary: Let Down
Review: I have been reading Robert Jordan's books for years and this book was a big let down. He could have written a 50 page version and that would have been better. He would expound upon the most trivial details for pages and pages for no apparent reason. The only reason I kept on reading was that I have too much invested in this series and have grown very fond of the characters that the writer has stopped developing in any significant way. I think he has to get a better editor.
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Summary: Crossroads of Twilight
Review: I thought that Cot was wonderful. 10 stars if possible.
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Summary: Stalling and fluff
Review: I have read the earlier books in this series multiple times, although I agree that the last one or two had slowed down in pace. I do not mind the highly introspective tone of Jordan's narratives that seems to bother other readers. I held on to the belief that they were in fact "set up" books for something ahead. However, this book has made me decide to abandon the Wheel of Time series. It have such a passive feel that I had to look back through the book to verifiy that anything at all had taken place. Jordan is fond of hints and innuendos, but by themselves such tricks cannot sustain a book of this size. In the end, I think that Jordan's writing style has gotten so fluffy and long-winded that he can no longer fit a book's worth of activity into even a 700 page book. If you loved the last two books, then you should enjoy this one too. If you -- like me -- were hoping for Crossroads of Twilight to redeem the series, then take my advice: Now is the time to walk away.
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Summary: Skip to page 600 before you fall asleep!!
Review: I struggled through book 9, it was a roaring adventure compared to this one. Honestly, you might as well skip to page 600 and read the last few chapters. All Jordan does is continue to muddy the waters and drag out the story line on what has grown to too many characters. I have heard he plans to write 12 in all. Fortunately, he won't get any more of my money as I intend to wait for my public library to buy the books. All I can say is the next book better "pump up the volume" to get us closer to closure.
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