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Summary: Clar in Minnesota
Review: I have to agree with all the reviewers out there who've decided that this book was a waste of time. I love the first 6 books - but, I've been disappointed, and to be honest, dismayed at the rest of them - especially this one. I don't care what everyone is wearing! Really! I want some action. I can only figure Jordan's getting paid per page, because this book was entirely filler. I really don't see how he can end this series in even 3 additional books. He's got too many characters - that I can only imagine have no actual purpose to the story other than to bide the time before he figures out what he's going to do with the main 20 or so characters. CRAZY!! I've finished the George R.R. Martin series - A Song of Ice and Fire (so far)- that's the series that I'm going to continue to read!
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Summary: Fantasy mimics reality, unfortunately
Review: The Wheel of Time series started with such promise but has become hopelessly mired in political manuvering, sort of like the United Nations.The removal of one of the greatest stumbling blocks to our heroes, the taint on Saidin (the male half of magic) has caused a complete stop in the progress of the story. It appears that Robert Jordan relied so heavily on the problems assosiated with men using The One Power that removal of that obstacle has left the plot in the luch. Sort of like having the worlds most powerful military force but being to afraid to use it for fear of the political backlash. The good guys have the weapon they need, time to let them use it!
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Summary: So happy I stopped reading this series...
Review: I stopped reading this series midway through Path of Daggers, after starting the series in 1991 and thinking that it was the best fantasy series I'd ever read. I couldn't make it through Path of Daggers because it seemed to me to be too much like the 7th book -- BORING. After reading the reviews of the 8th book, 9th book, and now this 10th book in the series, I see I've made the right choice. All I can say is, for those of you who feel like you have too much time invested in this series to quit reading, you are wrong. Think of it like investing in a stock where the price keeps falling and falling with no end in sight. Would you continue pumping money into that stock just because you've already lost a ton? NO! That's called "throwing good money after bad," and it's the same thing you're doing with your time by continuing to let Jordan rip you off with these books. Just stop buying them. Don't reward him for his complacency and laziness. Read George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series or something (anything!) else. Heap your financial rewards on an author who cares about his readers. Jordan clearly no longer does and doesn't deserve any of our money.
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Summary: the words are in the wrong order
Review: My reviews of the last 3 volumes in this series have become increasingly sarcastic and acerbic, and obviously I'm not the only one who feels that the quality of not only the series, but the individual books, has plumeted. The book, however, like its predecessors, does have a lot of words in it, which brings to mind a sketch from Monty Python. You may recall that a doddering Shakespearean actor was being interviewed, and remarked on how "many words" there are in King Lear. He stated that the "words are all there, we just have to get them in the right order." This made me think of CoT. Maybe it just has the words in the wrong order. Maybe this really was a great book and there is a dramatic conclusion to the story which would be discovered by completely reorganizing the words, and perhaps some lexicological liposuction to trim the extra fat (braid tugging, dress smoothing, etc). But then, the same could probably be said about extensive editing of the work product of the proverbial room full of monkeys with typewriters trying to reproduce Shakespeare. Good authors (certainly human ones) get the words in the right order before the book is shipped off to the publisher. Next time, Bob, either let the monkeys and the editors do it (provided you can distinguish between a Tor editor and a monkey), or try to get the words in the right order yourself. You certainly didn't do it this time.
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Summary: Time to give up on the series
Review: Too many minor characters to keep track of, and nothing much happens in this book. I am giving up on the whole series and moving on to authors who are better writers and know how to keep a story going. Robert Jordan will waste no more of my time!
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Summary: Soporific...Don't waste your time
Review: The series has slowed down considerably since book 5 - book 9 was a lot better with Saidin being cleansed. Watch out for Crossroads of Twilight though - the most entertaining thing in the book was the blurb on the back.
In a nutshell- Egwene ends book 9 outside Tar Valon waiting to battle Elaida - she waits through book 10 as well, the Black Ajah hunt starts book 9 - and has started by the end of book 10, Rand waits and bides his time through book 10, Perrin ends book 9 hunting for Faile and ends book 10 the same way - Mat's story is more entertaining.
4 more reasons why the book is dull - 1) The plot just gets more like a long drawn soap opera book to book 2) Minor characters just clutter each page - without any sense of purpose or direction 3) Every one of the major(minor) characters survives from book to book - with some 20-30 new added in COT 4) There are thousands of useful words devoted to useless descriptions such as, whether someone(who doesnt matter in the story anyway) had vertical stripes or horizontal stripes on her dress
Crossroads of Twilight is a waste of a lot of time that could be spent more usefully on re-reading Tolkien.
Oh - when is the series ending?????
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Summary: Waste of Time
Review: Nothing happends. Robert Jordan takes a thousand pages to say NOTHING. Nothing is resolved, Nothing happends at all. Everyone is just waiting, and waiting, and waiting. If you absolutely must read the next in this series, go for it, otherwise leave this one alone. Believe me, you will not have missed anything. Maybe next time his chariters will actually do something.
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Summary: How slow can you go???
Review: With the first 6 books of the Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan has proven that he is a most brillant writer. With the last 4 books however, he has proven that he knows how to crush momentum and interest- and Crossroads of Twilight seems to be the worst of them all. I say "seems", because I have not yet finished the book. I am just over 400 pages into it, however, and NOTHING has happened. Minor characters are described and analyzed in painstaking detail, as are plots, subplots, settings, etc. Detail is good...but too much (WAY too much) of a good thing, isn't. If the last four books were written with the same flair and strength as the first 6, this would have been the last and greatest book. Jordan had established himself as a veritable legend with the first 6 books. Comparisons to Tolkien were VERY appropriate. Now, he needs to be succinct and INTERESTING in his last few to pull the series out of mediocrity and back into greatness.
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Summary: Somebody get Jordan an Editor, PLEASE!!
Review: I can't say I was entirely disappointed with COT--Jordan's recent efforts have been almost as unimpressive. It's simple, Jordan needs an editor to provide some adult supervision, to cut his prose and to demand he pull things together. He had 600+ pages to wrap up any one of a still multiplying number of plot lines. I appreciate suspense, character development, detailed descriptions, etc., but let's move the characters forward. I loved the first six books but have been struggling with the rest. I know he has some great ideas, but this book was a miss. It does little to advance the story and left me in doubt as to whether I'll plunk down 30+ bucks for the next one.
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Summary: HORRIBLE! DON'T BUY IT!
Review: Is Robert Jordan trying to milk this series for all its worth or what?! I loved the first 5 books, plodded my way through 6 & 7, and I'm afraid that I've completely given up on 8, 9, 10, and whenever the heck RJ decides to have mercy and end this pathetic series. I skimmed his 800 page book in about an hour at the bookstore, put it back on the shelf, and thanked the heavans that I didn't buy the book. The plot moves like a glacier, its disjointed, unoriginal, and just plain BAD. RJ, go into meditation and rediscover your creativity, either that or just stop producing these awful books.
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