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Summary: Wish he would do more in 700 pages...
Review: I've been reading WOT since the first book came out and enjoyed the series quite a bit through book 8. The addition of new subplots and the continuing developement of plot lines in book 9 and 10 are starting to make this series drag...after completing this book I was a little dissapointed in the lack of overall progress the main characters made. The book should really be 9.5 - maybe two years from now we will have some dramatic development within the story - Robert, keep it up, but all the extra detail is taking away from the enjoyment of the series.
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Summary: 700 pages of nothing
Review: It's amazing, Jordan can spend years writing a book that we all hope is bringing to a close the end of an age. Yet through the first 400 pages we discover simply what everyone was up to when Rand and Nynaeve were cleansing the male source. And the remaining 300 pages, a few political issues. No threads concluded, no threads even advanced. Skip to book 11 and you probably won't even miss what happened in book 10.
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Summary: Get Used to Dissapointment
Review: The problem with this book is that it breaks every rule of novelization there is. It has cliffhangers that could be resolved but are not, it focuses on interpersonal conflicts to the point of losing the greater scope of the real battle, in a way it reminds me of the great Sirius Sybernetics Corp created by Douglas Adams in that the books great flaws are somewhat obscured by its shear number of small flaws. The plot advances not one whit from the previous book. The Climax of the previous book takes place halfway through this one and while it is speculated about, nobody ever bothers to discover what happened and those that do know have done nothing to get the news out despite the ability to Travel anywhere in the blink of an eye. Useful and Logical military thought is time and again discarded in favor of political conivence, and even clever strategies are undertaken in the most foolish manner to create false conflicts and cliffhangers that seemed forced and that would shame a serial novelist let alone an author who publishes at two and a half year intervals. Evil goes undetected despite overwhelming evidence and opportunity to see it, and the main hero has a cameo in his own book. Of course I am ten books into this series so I have to own this one, lately it has taken Jordan Three books to get the quailty that you got in one for the first five, so for all the potential readers out there I suggest that you wait for four years and read this one in context with the next two, that way it will not leave you frustrated for a couple years until you get to read the action half of this book spread out over the next two. The plot lines no longer intertwine and the characters no longer relate with each other, the entire world hangs by a thread and not a single person takes a single effective step in the entire book, there is no resolution and there is no satisfaction only grim waiting for Crossroads of Twilight II or whatever it will be called comes out after two years or so. To Mister Jordan I can only say, do not go out and push this book, stay home and get the next one out quick to make up for this one, we do not doubt that you can do it, so why didn't you?
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Summary: Half a book
Review: It's half a book is the best that I can say. I did not read the last few chapters and I will not read them or reread the book until the other half of the book is published
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Summary: Worst Jordan Book Ever
Review: One word comes to mind regarding this book.Garbage. Pure garbage. Jordan needs an editor who isnt his wife.
BADLY. Enough already with the whole Perrin whining about his wife being capture. 250 pages of it without ever actually resolving it is MORE than enough. Mat was enjoyable but come on almost a hundred pages and all he basically did was complain that he had to get married. And the Elayne business. Gods she has turned into my worst nightmare. 1. She is stupid. 2. SHe is hormonal 3. She is arrogant and snooty. Do I have to read 200 pages per book about how inept of a ruler she is and how everything is Rands fault (in her eyes) but she still oves him anyway and cant live without him...can I VOMIT now. At least the last book redeemed itself at the end by having something interesting happen. This book doesnt even have that saving grace. The one item that looked like it MIGHT turn interesting just piddled into nothing. I mean FINALLY LOGAIN MEETS RAND...and nothing. Rand yells and Logain tells him to watch out for Taim and Rand says he knows...eh no big deal. I mean here is something that we have been waiting for and it snothing..a toss away. I guess he was too into Elaynes morning sickness to really spend any time on Rand and Logain meeting. A meandering pile of psychobable nonsense. It used to be that Jordan would give his character personality by adding in little quips like "Rand always knows how to handle women...he would know what to do" Or Nynaeve tugging on her braid. But apparently that isnt enough anymore. Apparently after 250 pages of Perrin whining so much about Faile that I just want her to die so that we can get on with the story Jordan still doesnt think he has gotten across the message that Perrin is a whiny baby who needs someones boot on his back side telling him to grow up and be a man. Everything in the book now is nothing more than reflection of how the characters FEEL about something or what they are THINKING about something. NOTHING HAPPENS. I swear if I have to read one more three page description of what someone is wearing I am gonna pull my hair out. And I am assuming that next book he is really gonna go all out and the intro wind blowing will last a whole chapter maybe. How many things a wind can blow over and bounce off of before he gets on with the story is amazing. I never get enough of it. Please bounce the wind off a few more things next time Jordan its facinating really. The only reason I even read the books anymore is because I want to know what happens in the end. This book doesnt even give me the luxury of having ANYTHING happen. Like I said. Jordan needs an editor BADLY. His last effort is pathetic.
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Summary: Nynaeve tugs her [blank]
Review: You would have to be crazy to read this. I mourn for the wood pulp sacrificed to bring this blight into the world. Jordan substitutes character development with repetitive behavior, and story with excruciating, irrelevant detail. Reading without a point. If you feel you have to read this sort of thing, then read Marcel Proust - - you can spend the rest of your life on it, and people will actually respect you for it.
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Summary: A Terrible Disappointment
Review: This is perhaps the worst book in the series so far. After a wait of over two years, we're presented with a series of unconnected snippets in which absolutely nothing happens. There is no forward movement whatsoever in the overall plot, and no issues are resolved. Most of the major characters are presented for a few brief chapters in which they essentially tread water, and we leave all of them at the end of the book pretty much where we found them at the beginning. It's pretty clear now that Jordan has no intention of wrapping this up in the forseeable future and going on to another project. It's sad to see a talented writer decide to milk a single concept for the rest of his career, rather than finishing it off and seeking a new challenge, but I'm convinced that this is the case with Jordan. The only question is, how many people will still be reading this series 10 or 15 years from now when it finally ends with book 17 or 18? I know I won't be. As far as I'm concerned, this series is dead.
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Summary: Another Jordan Book
Review: Crossroads of Twighlight is yet another Jordan book. It is best characterized by its near-total lack of major developments. Readers who are becoming bored with the series will, frankly, probably be disappointed. Die hard fans will probably enjoy it--it has a lot of the flavor of older books, and is not poorly written. Most of the attention is focused on main characters, unlike Winter's Heart, which spent endless periods of time on new characters. Most of the main characters have points-of-view; Mat, Elayne, Egwene Perrin, and Faile all get screen time, with chapters for Rand, Alviarin, Pevara, Karede, and a few others. Most of the action is political, with very little fighting, travel, or discovery. Some new, so far minor threads were introduced. Some interesting decisions were made,although nothing has come of most of them in this book. In short, it wasn't bad, it was moderately interesting, and it was a pleasant book if you like Jordan, but the content could probably have been condensed into a much shorter book. It would have been much, much better if the plot had actually developed and some of the hanging situations been resolved.
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Summary: Please end something!!
Review: 680 pages later, and not one thing resolved. If anything, there are less things resolved. The tower is still divided, Faile is still captive, Mat still isnt married, who knows what is going on with the Black Tower, and Rand is barely in the book. Save yourself twenty dollars, buy it in paperback, so maybe after you read it will have less time to wait for a plot line to end. I have been waiting close to 7 years for the tower to be united, and i am 20. Thats more than a third of my life. Some of the other lines are just as old. If Robert Jordan has a heart attack before he closes some of these......
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Summary: Enough is enough
Review: I have been reading the WoT novels for over ten years now, and re-reading. For years I have marvelled over the extraordinary complexity of Mr. Jordan's world-building skills and the continued attention to detail. Like so many others, I eagerly awaited the tenth installment, Crossroads, and having now read it, can say that Mr. Jordan has lost control over the story-line as he focuses on peripheral characters or avoids advancing the plot in favor of character development. Lets face it, if the characters are not fleshed out sufficiently after 9 books and their goals and motivations revealed, its just not going to happen in book 10. Moreover, it is long past time that certain events took place. For example, two books back the "rebel" Aes Sedai commenced the siege of the White Tower. Except wait, by the end of book 10, it still doesn't happen (sorry to give that away). Something's been going on with Mazrim Taim and the Black Tower for over three books, but no plot advancement there in book 10 either. (While we could speculate, wouldn't it just be nice to actually know by this time). I could go on, but in short, I only have the following to say: Enough is enough.
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