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Summary: Please finish this series before I'm finished
Review: Mr. Jordan...I fear I will die before this series ends. I'd like to start by stating that I'm a huge fan of Robert Jordan's previous books, but every book since # 6 feel like he is milking his readership and writing for the money rather than for the story. Literally 3 or 4 events occurred in this book - Nothing is happening in the series since book 6. Please Mr Jordan, give us a book like books 1 - 6 and let us know how the series ends. Some suggestions... Moiraine returns from limbo where she was sent (book ?), Lan unites the north behind Rand, Perrin unites old Manetheran, Matt is the general, they all meet to fight the Trollocs, etc., and Rand and company win. Rand writes a book entitled "From there and back again" and sails off with the Seachan. The end. Please, please, finish this up versus making me read through endless details of no value to the series. The last few books have felt like reading the phone book. These books aren't cheap and you are close to losing me. In the meantime, I will save my money for deserving authors and buy yours from second hand book stores or off the discount rack for 4.00.
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Summary: Boring!!
Review: Don't bother to read it. You can skip the entire book and only miss one or two events. Or get the book from the library and read the last 30 pages.
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Summary: Will he ever complete the wheel of time series????
Review: I have read the wheel of time series avidly and enjoyed almost all of them. This one however was real let down. Instead of wasting time with a fil in novel Jordan would be doing his fan base a whole ot of good if he finally got down and back to the real story.
I know that some folks say thisis just a preparation for the the next release, but it was never done with any of the others, why this one.
I will buy the next true release of the Wheel of time series but nothing else from this series ever again unless of course he manges ot capture the imagination.
Sometimes you can get too saturated and an epic of this order has to be a difficult project but with todays computers and writing software, the job is no where near as difficult as it was 10 years ago. IN fact # 10 just seemed to be a software generated summary I hate to be a critic especially of this series, but the Wheel of time does go on and no one lives forever
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Summary: Hahahahahahahaha!
Review: Okay, okay, I stopped losing interest in Jordan around book six, but I kept up with skimming through his books every now and then to see what I missed. And looks like I didn't miss much. But the real point I wanted to make: The reviews! Oh, what glorious reviews. It is SOOO amusing to read all of these long, detailed, intelligent analyses of where Jordan abandoned all respect for his work to his own self-importance. Some of you should write your own books. And for his eternally awful tome of crap, people are giving him -- what -- nearly two thousand (and counting) book reviews for this mound of inorganic cattle dung, rotting to the top of the bestseller list! Wow! Not very many people achieve such notoriety! For that alone, he puts himself up in the rarefied air (just sniff it!) of other creators of great literature. This huge backlash would not exist with Jordan's consummate ability to bait-and-switch. (Write a few good ones, get the pump primed, then start writing reams of drivel to lure in the money.) To him I owe my amusement. Thus, for the two thousand mostly-negative reviews that have kept me amused (and occasionally laughing hysterically) when I was otherwise bored and down, I give this five big frickin' stars.
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Summary: Abysmal
Review: This book is horrid, absolutely horrid. 1000 pages and nothing happens. Absolutely nothing happens - never again will I buy one of these. I actually loved the first 4 or 5 books - raved about them to anyone who would listen. Then the next few were weaker with PATH OF DAGGERS being awful. But, this is the bottom of the barrel. Horrid is the only way to describe it. Shame on you Jordan, shame on you...
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Summary: Very let down
Review: I agree that this series has become very drawn out with the last couple of books and this book has just made it alot worse. It's amazing the amount of irrelevant details that this book contains. the only detail that I can think of that Robert Jordan missed out is how long Matts hair nose has grown from page to page.
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Summary: Not bad if you are new to it.
Review: Having been newly introduced to the series, I read book one to book ten within two to three weeks instead of being forced into waiting two-year periods for the next book to come out. That is why I am lenient with my review. If you have read the series in one shot like I did, and if you are adept at quickly flipping pages, you will enjoy COT for its few fragments of text having qualities reminiscent of his earlier books. This is easily achieved by skipping any chapters with the following words: Egwene, Elayne, Perrin, Black Ajah, Darkfriends, and/or Forsaken. While I find it regrettable that characters like Perrin became uninteresting, there are a few plot twists that keep you hooked to the series. You will especially want to read about Mat's current situation with the Seanchan, and the new plot developments involving Logain, Taim and Rand. Like CDs, sometimes all it takes are a few songs within a pile of filler songs to make them worthwhile. Any missing holes encountered while skimming the book can be remedied via google. I recommend searching for character databases since many new, but unimportant characters are introduced whether they are Cairhenin House leaders or Darkfriend/Forsaken cover names.
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Summary: Zzzzzzzzzzzz
Review: After wading through the first nine books in this series, I'm wondering why I bothered to read the tenth. I thought for certain that this would end the series but to my dismay, I find that Rand, et al were still firmly emeshed in what now seems to be an endless soap opera. I've read about all I can stand about the "ageless" Aes Sedi, what all the women are wearing, Rand's apparently incurable pain and suffering, and an entire host of other repetitive and boring self-serving details which I could do without. Despite my aversion to leaving a tale unfinished, I don't think I'll be reading Jordan's 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, etc., etc., etc. offerings. Too I take fervent exception to the New York Times' claim that, "Robert Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal." Nonsense. Mr. Jordan's epic cannot even begin to measure up to the genius of Tolkien's work, except perhaps in the respect of how much room it takes up on the bookshelf.
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Summary: So... bored. Can't... go on.
Review: After hitting the last page of my copy of Crossroads of Twilight I couldn't help but toss it onto the table in front of me, disgusted. I should have known that a book requiring a 100+ page prologue probably won't be getting to the point anytime soon. If you don't mind a few _really_ mild spoilers here's a quick summary that should let you skip the book altogether: * Is Perrin still trying to rescue Faile? Yep.
* Is he significantly closer than he was at the beginning of the book? Nope. * Is Elayne still trying to secure the throne of Andor? Yep.
* Is she significantly closer than she was at the beginning of the book? Nope. * Is Matt still trying to escape the Seanchan invasion of Ebou Dar? Yep.
* Is he any farther away than at the beginning of the book? Not really. * Is Egwene still trying to unite the splintered White Tower? Yep.
* Is she significantly closer than she was at the beginning of the book? Nope. * Does Nynaeve show up at all in the book? Not really. In one paragraph she's seen from a distance by another character but that's about it. * Is Rand doing anything at all? Nope. He's effectively neutered as a character. * Does anything interesting happen with the Black Ajah, the Dark One or the Forsaken? Not really. * Were we, the readers, subjected to endless pages describing:
- the wardrobe and petty plotting of an endless stream of secondary and tertiary characters? Yep.
- the catty sniping of royal pretenders and Aes Sedai? Yep. * Did _anything_ of any significance happen in this book? Not really (Oh, you could argue that some stuff happens in the last 20 pages but it really wasn't worth wading through the preceding 800 to get there). And that's pretty much it. When I think of the hours I sank into this book -- on the bus, at the doctor's office, at various meal times -- I can only shake my head that I was suckered into this series yet again. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me four times in a row (let's face it, the series has been steadily declining since A Crown of Swords) well shame on me four times over. Mr. Jordan, I officially give up. I won't be reading another of these until I hear that the series conclusion has actually been published. Since that will probably be 3-5 books down the road I don't expect to buy another until 2011. Why two stars instead of one, you might ask? I reserve 1 star for books so bad that I can't make it through to the end. I managed, just barely, to wade through this one so it doesn't qualify as a true stinker. - Surly in Seattle
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Summary: Story progress is unforgiveably slow. Don't waste your time!
Review: Jordan must want to drag this series to 1000 books. There is no progress in the storyline in this book. I enjoyed the first 5 books in this series but they got progressively slower in advancing the story. I hoped the story would eventually reach some kind of conclusion, but now I have lost all hope. I was extremely disappointed by this book, so I am writing my first review to prevent further agony. This is the worst book I have ever read. I'll never buy a book by Jordan again. Try the Ice Wind Trilogy by Salvatore to get a book with action and a reasonable conclusion.
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