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Summary: I've solved it!!!
Review: I finally figured out why this book was written! I read it when it came out, and I really didn't get it then. I thought it was horrible, and a waste of paper. How wrong I was! People have been wondering how RJ was going to wrap the series up. Some have even gone so far as to say that the great RJ had (The wheel forbid!!) no idea how he was going to finish it. We all forgot his military training. It was all tactics! Just when we thought he had lost it, he surprises us! Here's what I think is going to happen. Rand (or one of the other couple of million characters) gets a hold of CoT (Hardcopy, so TOR and RJ can scrape out a living). They put up with some weak tea for a while and make it to Shayol Ghul. They then smooth their skirts, giggle a little, and pull on their pigtails (if they were women. The men would just sleep with their multiple wives, who are happy to share), so the dark one gets amused. Then he/she shoves the book down the rift or bore or whatever (maybe with another copy for Shaidar Haran). The dark one reads it, falls asleep, he's sealed in again....and everyone lives happily ever after. They'd still need a few more copies for the rest of the forsaken, but that is a small price to pay. See how brilliant the man is? And here we were maligning his genius!!
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Summary: Another Setup
Review: Crossroads of Twilight, has problems. I find myself skimming 12 pages of character introductions only to have half the characters leave within the next few pages never to be seen again through the rest of the book. Robert Jordan introduces far too many characters to remember and adds too much slow pace "climax building," and it is getting on my nerves. I wish something would happen to advance the plot. Quite frankly, I can no longer even stand to read anything to do with Perrin. So little that is interesting has even happened with this character through the series and will most likely stay my least favorite character.
Since Perrin decided to save his wife in the ninth book, this character has had so little to do with the story that I don't see why it's even in there. I read his perspective and I don't even see anything that could be even a hint to things to come to pass for much too long. This book hardly mentions Rand. It starts focusing on reuniting the white tower, continuing to build climax, but going so slow in the story line filling hundreds of pages with pointless in depth introductions of nobody characters. I don't know If I could take another set up novel in this series.
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Summary: Don't even bother
Review: This is the first review I've ever submitted on Amazon, but I was so outraged by this book that I felt I owed it to my fellow readers to warn them. I've also got to submit my one-star rating to do my bit in keeping the overall rating of this book as low as possible, and to counter the occasional five-star reviews I've seen, all of which were undoubtedly submitted by Jordan's wife, mother, children or dog.Like the vast majority of the reviewers, I avidly devoured the first several books in this series, and have been increasingly disappointed in the rapidly declining quality of the last four or five. However, this one is beyond bad. And since I'm sure Jordan's wife or mother will submit a five star review shortly following mine saying that I'm stupid/have no appreciation for complex political plots/don't know good writing when I see it, let me say that I am NOT a fan of hack and slash fantasy, and love complicated political plots. If that's your preference, read George R.R. Martin or Guy Gavriel Kay, each of whom can pack more complex plot twists, emotional intensity and thrilling intrigue into one book than Jordan has put in ten. Enough reviewers have commented on the endless and repetitive descriptions of the complete wardrobe of the hundreds of characters and the Elayne's gut-wrenching tragic hardship of being doomed to drinking weak tea for the next nine months that I don't need to focus my review on those issues. So, a few personal pet peeves: 1) The hundreds of minor characters, none of whom I recognize or care about. For the last several books, I used to wonder if these were new characters, or a reprisal of a minor character whom I didn't recognize or care about from four books ago. Not being masochistic, I never cared enough to slog my way through the previous several books of drivel to satisfy my curiousity on this point. But the quality of this book has reached such a nadir that I found myself numb to this question. I just don't care any more. 2) The one-dimensionality of the characters. Several other people have commented on this, but I'd go beyond even saying all the characters are one-dimensional. Jordan changes the shallow aspect of each character's personality whenever he chooses. For instance, in the beginning of the series, Nynaeve was depicted as a confident, assured woman. Now, she's an insecure little whiner. Actually, all it takes for EVERY character in the series to revert immediately to the mentality of a sulky adolescent is for a Wise One to lift an eyebrow at them. But now on to a specific review of the plot of this book... Wait a minute. Plot? There was a plot? I didn't notice any plot... To those of you who think this book is just a set-up for future books, and the next book is sure to be wonderful, far be it from me to dispel that illusion if cherishing it brings you comfort. All I will say is that that's what I've been saying to myself ever since Book 7. After FOUR BOOKS OF FILLER, the light has finally dawned for me, though. To those of you who are determined to stick this series through to the bitter end (however many decades in the future that end may be) who think you have to read this one to keep abreast of plot developments, I have a very valuable tip for you which will save you hours of teeth-gnashing frustration - Pick the book up in the bookstore or library and read the last three pages. You will then be fully conversant with all of the so-called progress made in the plot of this 700 page waste of paper and shelf space.
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Summary: crossroads
Review: sweet book i loved it! i bought it the day it came out!
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Summary: Jordan 'dominates' Tolkien like dead fish dominate a beach
Review: "Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal." Man, I have never seen a quotation (even a NY Times one) so misused as the one some poor staffer leveled at Jordan's early work (about 9 books ago!). Now, utterly divorced from context and original meaning, it's endlessly repeated by Jordan's publisher to suggest that Jordan's terminal endgame of tedium is better than Tolkien, which anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows is not the case. I bet some of the early reviews (from about a decade ago) of Jordan's early books were just as kind. No longer. This book is awful. It doesn't even stand up to middle-tier fare, let alone something written by Tolkien or George R. R. Martin. When Jackson cast Tolkien's work to film, he created some of the most spectacular epic films Hollywood has yet produced. If he were forced to do the same to Jordan's works, even he wouldn't be able to do much more than end up with 'Mona Lisa Smile' and the occasional scene fretting over spoiled grain shipments. I can just see the financiers lining up for that one.
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Summary: Frustrated,sick of Aes Sedai. Now rooting for the Seanchan.
Review: I must agree with the majority of the other reviews here. The first several books were well-paced, and the various different plots and subplots actually kept the action moving and the story progressing. I enjoyed seeing the characters grow and could not wait to read the next chapter, the next book. Now I can barely make myself wade through the paralyzing suckiness of page upon page of dresses and tea and supposedly supermagical genius women acting like vapid high-school freshmen. Seriously, I can't stand the whole Aes Sedai thing anymore. What happened? The last three books have been almost nothing but childish Aes Sedai snapping at each other (and/or at men in general) for dozens of pages at a time. In the beginning of the series I found the man/woman conflict in the world intriguing, but at this point I kind of hope all the Aes Sedai are annihilated in an Old-School, Old-Testament style beat-down of Biblical proportions (and I don't care by who). Or I would love to see Logain and a legion of Asha'man come in and Compel them all to become Hooters waitresses or something. I'm starting to dread each Aes Sedai chapter because the characters all pretty much act the same and only the names change. Another thing I've been wondering - why would any man in his right mind ever desire or consent to become a Warder? What's in it for them? To be ordered around and manipulated all the time? To be a Green's boy toy? I mean, I understand in Lan's case; he has an explanatory backstory, but what about the others? Do they get a nice pension plan and comprehensive dental or something? What's the upside for all the BS they have to put up with? Would anyone even want to be in the same room as the average Aes Sedai, let alone be mentally and emotionally attached to them for life? If you knew people in the real world who acted like the Aes Sedai do in the books would you be friends with them or even give them the time of day? I just don't find them sympathetic at all anymore. And how about that punk Gawyn? Any remorse at all over murdering all his old teachers? Oh well, just hook up with Egwene and all is forgiven. Yay! Can't wait for that plot point to come eventually. The whole Cadsuane thing? Someone tell me again why she is necessary? Or how she is different from any of the other magic women - except she's even more of the same? I have too many frustrations with the plot at this point and don't want to devolve into a rant (any more than I have already, anyway). I don't know about all of you, but from now on I'm rooting for the Seanchan. Turn all these whining teaswilling fairy chicks into damane, stomp some order into these squabbling kingdoms, get Rand to deal with the Forsaken and the Dark One and everyone lives happily ever after.
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Summary: What has happened in this book
Review: As I was nearing the end of this book, I asked myself "What has happened in this book?" It had very little action. This was definately the slowest of all the books in the series so far. I have enjoyed all of the others in the series and this is the first time I was wondering why I was reading it. This book is not a reason to stop reading the series, but hope that the next ones will climax as expected.
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Summary: As usual, a slow paced book
Review: A turtle, swimming in a sea of peanut butter, would be faster than this.
This has got to be the slowest Robert Jordan book ever. I can't believe why there is the need to describe one scene using two to three (sometimes more) pages. Probably, if you took out all the unnecessary details, you'd be left with about 200 to 300 pages, or even less, and still get the same idea. The only thing that makes me continue reading this series is that I've already read Books 1-9 which, for the most part, I enjoyed. I hope his style changes in Book 11, although I'll most certainly read that also whatever happens, if only just to finish the series (coz the storyline is really good).
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Summary: Crossroads of Minutia
Review: Do you love books with endless plotting, scheming, muddling about, and debating combined with senseless attention to detail? Then this bogged-down series is for you! Jordan tracks an ever-increasing number of characters along a never-ending journey designed to rob you of your hard earned bucks and never providing a satisfactory conclusion. Watch as Perrin tracks his wife's kidnappers and then, just as he has almost caught up with them, sidetracks into a city where we are bogged down with the details of purchasing grain full of weevels. Hopefully in the next chapter he'll remember she's missing and stop getting side-tracked, but that is probably wishing too much since the purpose of the series seems only to continue itself. Please everyone boycott this garbage! Unless RJ finishes it within the next two books, it just isn't worth the time reading it.
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Summary: On the other Hand
Review: although the pace may be unbearable, and the progress minimal at best, im sure in reality most readers would be disappointed if the series came to a quick end. 10 books worth of setup, to be finished in a single installment? how would anyone (particularly the Master of Description himself) manage to tie up every loose plot end in one novel? it would be carelessly written, and not entirely thought out. However, having spoken with Jordan, I am aware that it is not his lack of vision of an end that keeps him from ending it.( he knew how it was going to end while writing Eye of the World) It is his numerous new plots and loose ends that he keeps creating that are stopping him. With so many, it becomes more complex to end a novel, as well as to produce a new installment(hence the long waits in between releases.) at any rate, enough of this rambling...A slow novel yes...a reason to lose faith in an excellent writer? never
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