Rating: Summary: i can't believe anyone can dislike this series... Review: Robert Jordan is an excellent fantasy author (if not the best ever) and it's hard for me to believe
that anyone can avoid falling in love with his works. I first discovered The Wheel Of Time series about four years ago and since then i've practically died waiting for each new addition. Shame on anyone who cannot appreciate this masterpiece...i love it and so should any fantasy
reader who has half a brain.
Rating: Summary: Not the great read i was told it would be... Review: I found this book to be quite disappointing, mainly because itnever really satisfied me with a decent conclusion to ANYTHING itstarted! There were a lot of things about this book that could have been great, but never were. Jordan builds up so much anticipation in his readers, and then lets them down with an ending that almost goes unnoticed! Just about every story line he starts, never has a conclusion. What ever happens to Tam and the other Emonds Fielders? Supposedly the character "Min" is to appear again too...what about Perrin and the wolves who leave with a promise to meet with Perrin again? So much is unresolved in this book that I was certain I had obtained a flawed book with only the first half bound between the covers. Another disappointment: The story was very slow moving. Throughout the whole middle section, the same things repeated themselves over and over again, only each time in a new town. To sum it all up, I'd say this book just wasn't very well thought out!
Rating: Summary: Top notch fiction/fantasy from Jordan Review: This is what grabbed me into the series, and
still hasn't put me down yet. After finishing
this book, I was relieved to still have 6 more to
hold me off for a few months until the next
release. And I am still making plans to reread
every book while I wait for more.
Rating: Summary: Save your money and attention span for another series. Review: Though many of the reviews I read here are noble, there aresome seriously misplaced intellects in here. This book cannotpossibly be, (nor the series be) a '10'. To let you know the truth, there are many opinions in here that come from prople who know the author. For all we know the author asked some of these people to write these critiques for him! Needless to say this novel along with the others is a blatent attempt to kindly steal your money while tempting your tummy with a story that has no real conclusions only thincker and thicker plots, upon plots, upon, plots.... You get the idea. It's like dangling a carrot in front of a horse that you know will follow it, because it's tempting the horse who thinks he will get it! The sad reality is I got it while others did not. The only way to win this silly game is not to play! Don't buy these books. It took me until the fourth novel to say, "enough is enough". Like drinking in a bar, you have to know when to say when! The problem is I've already vomited! The others are gonna lose their money, vomit, and die of alcohol poisoning! This series is about 10,000 pages too long! This story has an easy to grasp premise that is taken to new levels of intricacey that are unfathomable. Try as you might there is no end, but even if there is an end, there is no ending satisfying enough in all creation to justisfy reading 13 novels that are each (on average) 900 pages! The end result I assure you will leave you angry enough to shoot Jordan. I can imagine the ending now! It's as simple as the premise the story is based on! Rand dies, and Mat dies, and the world is broken AGAIN, and it starts all over! Because it is the wheel of time. Who knows maybe Jordan will spawn new prophisies in his book to give him the excuse to write about the great grandchildren of this world. So, as you see I don't think it will have an end, it will just go in circles as long as you all buy the books!
Rating: Summary: Excellent first book to an absorbing series. Review: The book is excellent. Jordan manages to create great detail and make the world seem very realistic. He goes a bit off the deep end with repetiveness, detail and sometimes unrealistic situations or characters, but on the whole Jordan has managed to write one of the more compelling fantasy series I've ever read.
My best suggestion however is for you to wait until the whole series is done. I was lucky, when I started book 7 was almost done and I managed to read right through to the end of book 7 uninterupted. Now the delay for book 8 (and possible 9 to 10) is way to long. What I can see me doing is re-reading the series each time there is a new book.
This series does ruin you. You read it and then after the last book you can get your hands on, you go back to some of your other books (for me is was Forgotten Realms, McCaffrey and Salvatore). They seem almost inadequate. The average book that still recieves much in the way of raving views can seem rather detailess in the face of Jordan's epic series.
Rating: Summary: Jordan should be arrested for selling something so addictive Review: Have you ever in your life read a book that will keep you pastyour bed time? Make you late for work? Make your wife mad? Make youforget to eat and sleep? If no, then you haven't read 'The Eye of the World'. If yes, then you HAVE read this book. I had to take 2 days of rest to recover from reading it. I didn't think I would ever read something so great. Pick it up and it will be your bible...............Until the next one in the series comes out.
Rating: Summary: A captivating series, comparable to Tolkien! Review: I started this series, hoping that I could find something asgood as the last series I read (The Time Master Trilogy, by LouiseCooper), and found that this was definitely as good, if not better than that series. This series is a must-read by me, though it does simmer down a little by Book 4. By the way, I talked with Jordan online and he says that there will be atleast 3 more books to the series. He also released the name of the Eighth Book: A Path of Daggers. This is a great book and an excellent series, and I hope you enjoy it.
Rating: Summary: I hope you have spare time, your never gona put it down. Review: This is certainly the best book I've ever read. Most books start off boring, but the action picks up after only two chapters. I've never seen a series with so many characters and so many diffrent sub-plots. Robert Jordan truly made his own world. All I can say now is I can't wait for his next book to come out
Rating: Summary: AMAZING Review: After the first fifty pages of this awesome book it is impossible to put it down. The detail involved in the plot of this book allows the reader to actually feel like they are a part of the story. Jordan represents what can only be described as the best fantasy anywhere!
Rating: Summary: It's a TRAP!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Review: OK...see...here's the deal. One day, Robert Jordan sits down with his editor and decides to come up with this kabillion book series (kind of like Piers Anthony, except all the books follow ONE plot) which will be as loquacious as possible so they can write as many volumes as possible and so they can earn as much money as possible. I mean...it's like this guy came up with a pretty good plot (not even a GREAT plot) and decides to just KILL all enjoyment of it by dragging it out as long as it stays marketable. Well, the first book isn't too bad. Kind of a rip-off story. Why does every story start off in some hicktown where nobody knows what's going on east of their itty-bitty river? Then the heroes find out what a terribly mean and cruel world they live in by going out to save it? Jordan isn't too imaginative there. He does do a pretty good job of incorporating EVERY THEME he apparently stole from every other fantasy writer into one series. The heroes HAD to go through some forbidden place that no one's been through in a long time, and they had to do it because these horrid orc things are following and cornering them...sound familiar? I'm surprised a balrog didn't show up...of course that nonentity entity did...whatever it was. He also did this INCREDIBLE job of describing in minute details how magic works in this world...without imparting a single iota of useful or enlightening information. I'll save the rest of the praise for his other books. I give him a 6...which is much more than he deserves, but I have to leave room for the other books
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