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Summary: DONT BOTHER READING THIS BOOK NOW
Review: Apparently Jordan has to produce a book every year or so regardless if he has anything written or not .. To satisfy
his publisher he comes up with this book.. A total ripoff
for Wheel of Time fans . Abe Lincoln said it took him
3 hours to write a 5 minute speech and 5 minutes to write a
3 hour speech .
I think you can guess my opinion of how many minutes it took
to throw this book together...
I guess we will need to wait another year or so until he finishes
this one albeit under another title...
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Summary: Nothing in too many words
Review: I have always been a fan of Jordan, but this book is just a let down. I cannot get past page 100. How can anyone say nothing in so many pages? Jordan must be getting paid by the word. Good thing this book was given to me as a gift.
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Summary: 1/2 star,,, Dont buy it! Wait for book 11, then decide..
Review: The previous reviewer beat me to the punch by asking: "Why was this book written?" In the end, it seems like one of two things must be true: Mr Jordan has no more of an idea where his characters are going than they do - or he's milking it. Maybe both are true. I would have been happier to give Mr. Jordan another year to get something done properly, than to see this done. (Those professional reviewers who gave it such glowing reviews were paid too much, at any price.) He's had a wonderful thing going here, and I think he's ruining it.Not only did the book leave the reader in just about the same place as where he/she started (in 680 pages, ) but there was technical (editorial) problems all the way through it: it was obvious the published/editor did not do THEIR job. There was remnants of sentance changes, duplicated words, missing words, words out of position in the sentance, and entire sentances that seemed totally disconnected from the paragraphs they were in. I suspect Mr. Jordan's draft was simply published without edit. HE is allowed errors - his publisher is NOT. This book started with a PROLOGUE, filled with characters and plots that lasted a full 94 PAGES... uhuh... you are 94 pages into the book before you get to chapter 1! In that prologue - called "Glimmers Of The Patern," you are given hints that something serious is going to happen in the book. 'The Wolf' has plans, and plans within plans...' and so on... But I can't see that any of those glimmers actually went anywhere in the book. You are introduced to a few new characters who - as far as I can see - never showed up again. Anywhere. Nor did the plans. Perhaps they'll show up in book 11 - but how can anyone remember that and pull it all together! This 94 page book-within-a-book even left me confused about those things I thought I did remember, from book 9. The main character - Rand - the so-called "Dragon Reborn" - the guy around whom this entire story is supposed to be centered.. had maybe 40 pages of the entire book (give or take a bit.) In those pages he seemed sometimes weak, sometimes angry, a bit indecisive and questioning. This is a man who just reshaped one of the primary energies of the world, to save the male users of 'the Source' from going mad. But he's still talking to a dead man in his head, and questioning his own sanity. At the end of this book, no one else actually seems certain that he's accomplished what he claimed. Every man would certainly know it! The Aes Sedai investigated the area where that great power was used, but then seemed to discount him as the source of it. Well, don't you think the major event of book nine should have had something more than a few casual comments in book ten? At the end of book 9, Faile was kidnapped; in book ten, she's still captive. Elayne is still trying to become Queen. She is spending her time "Traveling" to small villages to get support, while an army of contenders beseiges her city in an attempt to take the thrown away from her... and while she can't use her power to get the thrown, she can use it to Travel and bring food into the city to thwart the seige... (Guess I missed something there.) Egwene is still battling the White Tower - and she has mysterious plans too - but we never see them: At the end of Book 10, she's captive too. The Seanchen settlers are moving across the land and - gee - it seems they aren't so bad after all; most people are justing going back to business and seem content. Matt still plans to get married to a Seanchen princess-type.. after a hundred pages or so, his bride-to-be actually complimented him by pinning on one of his flowery gifts - a real achievement there. But at the end of book nine, he'd kidnapped this 'princess' and needed to escape; at the end of book ten, he still held her and still needed to escape... At the end of book nine, I thought we were moving toward a conclusion to this story. At the end of book ten, I feel we're further away from a conclusion than we were before. Let's put things into perspective. Mr. Jordan's writing has changed as each book has come out. Each has gotten slower, more descriptive, more drawn out. Until now, each book centered on a specific, critical event which could be seen as being important to the "final battle." This book managed to avoid even the obvious topics any reader could have expected to find. If Mr. Jordan had been writing about these same events with the lively style of book one, this book would have been (maybe) 50 pages. His style has evolved from a lively, fantasy-style story teller into something closer to a classical Russian author - with descriptive text, detail and a pace of events beyond that of "War and Peace." I think he's gotten too wrapped up in WHAT he's writing, and has forgotten WHO he's writing for. If I LIVE long enough to see book 11, I'll just buy a used copy - I'm sure there will be plenty of them, in great shape. My advice - WAIT FOR BOOK 11. If Mr. Jordan manages to pull all this stuff together in a meaningful way in book 11, buy them both and read them at the same time. It's the only way you'll remember all this stuff and the only way this stuff will have any value to you.
Rating: 
Summary: Better than the last, but still not good enough
Review: Crossroads of Twilight was another major disappointment compared to Jordan's earlier works. However, i think that it was much better than Winter's Heart, which contained no action up until the last hundred pages. Each of the subplots progresses, although still nothing gets resolved. The Forsaken and the Dark One seem all but gone in this book, and there is no major action whatsoever.
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Summary: Tedious Sequel
Review: In writing the tenth volume of the wheel of time epic, Jordan fell well short of expectations. His tendency for excessive descriptions of every character bordered on tedium. Of the nearly 700 pages barely 100 made any contribution to moving the plot along. The remainder covered endless descriptions of characters clothing, mood, hairstyles, accents and continual smoothing of skirts. Even when the stated smoothing was not necessary. This volume was a complete disappointment based on the strengths of previous books in the series.
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Summary: Robert Jordan's Crossroads of Twilight
Review: This is the worst Wheel of Time Novel so far. Robert Jordan opened my eyes to the world of fantasy books with his "Eye of the World." It seems that the last few books has showed that the well of his imagination has begun to dry up, but the ink in his pen has not. Like many of the others who have reviewed this book, I find that he blabs on and on about nothing. He doesn't introduce anything new and exciting in this book. His characters, plot, and imagination have stagnated. Like another Amazon.com reviewer, I myself ask, "Why was this written?"
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Summary: Listen up RJ
Review: This book should have been the 20 page prologue to the real book 10. For that matter, the last three or four books could and should be collapsed into one volume. I'm willing to grant Jordan amnesty and buy the book if he does this. As it is he's clearly losing control of the series. ...
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Summary: 672 pages of setup - No action.
Review: This book was incredibly disappointing. This series is going downhill hard. Each of the last few books was a long (sometimes very long) setup followed by an exciting ending. This one is the same except it lacked the exciting ending. In a nutshell, nothing happened. I am eager to see how the series turns out, but Jordan doesn't appear interested in advancing the plot at all. He appears to be writing for the money by seeing how long he can drag the series out. Winter's Heart gave me hope that this series was picking up again. Crossroads of Twilight crushed those hopes.
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Summary: Who proof read this book?
Review: As mentioned by previous reviewers this book really drags and only the memory of the first books and hopes that maybe the next chapter will be better keep the dedicated reader slugging it out in the trenches. To make matters worse, not only is the plot slow, you are constantly slowed in the actual reading of the book by the multitude of proof errors. Very frustrating.
Rating:
Summary: worst book of the series
Review: Nothing happens. People move here, they go there - all with no effect or advancement of the main story. No motivations of any significance are revealed. No battles are fought. No fights. No saidar or saidin used except trivial, every day usage. The whole book could have been 4 slim chapters (Rand, Perrin, Mat, White tower/Egwene) in a book where something does happen. The whole book leads up to (SPOILER HERE - look away) a possible truce with the Seanchan and Egwene getting captured through her own stupidity. Wow! What action! <-- sarcasm, if you haven't caught on. I hope Robert Jordan is reading these reviews, because he has a lot to make up for with this book.
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