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Summary: Intricate Details, and Politcal Scheems.
Review: I must agree with seveal reviews I have already read, that Robert Jordan may just be writing now to fill his bank account, but at the same time, the way he writes is not all action and thins blowing up. This, is a book only for thoes that can follow plot after plot after plot, and have atleast a basic understanding of political intregue and hidden meaning. Quite frankly, most of his readers, in order to understand all of his works you have to read into everything like a Cairhienan. Most of this book and the one before it has been for "Set up purposes" to arange where things will be going. Yes, you should read into what the people you've never heard of before are doing. If you can not follow where all of the information is going, like following 1000 lines to 10000 different points, than perhaps this is just a filler book for you.
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Summary: i have read all the books in order
Review: and crossroads of twilight is still very weak. even imagining the whole series as one great big book i can see a solid improvement if winters heart and crossroads of twilight were edited together as one book. in previous books jordan would use his elaborate details to provide hints and clues that would lead to interesting discussions and often be resolved or elaborated upon in the following book. very little of this is apparent in crossroads of twilight. many of the details do not build on previous mysteries and those that do do not reveal much. if only one significant mystery had be revealed to the reader, not even to the characters but just to the reader it would have been a refreshing moment in an otherwise tedious ramble also engaging a moving plot would have been nice. the long awaited siege on Tar Valon is discussed by the sisters camping outside of the city but by the end of the book the siege has not begun. how many "wait for the next book" delays can one plot point take? it has been three books by now. and that is just the one thread in this tangled tapestry. it was a poorly developed book. if you had to wait for two years it was very bad show to hand off this "subtle" story. people who wait for two years have expectations. expectations based on what previous books have delivered. it was not unreasonable for people to expect a bit more even a lot more than crossroads of twilight delivered. even a few solid setbacks that finish a plotline and change it to something else would have been ok. on a separate note. for those of you who defend jordan by claiming he is not trying to milk the books for all the money he can should realize that he has agreed with Tor to split the first novels (probably all of them) into two separate books to be targeted to young readers. now i do not know what planet you live on but here on earth children grow up. someday a 6 year old will be a 14 year old and then that child can read all the Wheel of time books he or she may want. the series might even have reached a conclusion by then. Splitting the books is absolutely a way of milking the series for more money. Is crossroads of twilight a way of milking money out of a fan base, probably. it certainly was not written FOR them. pretty much any book after the fourth one feels a bit like it is dragging out the series to make more money. this one just sucked at the same time.
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Summary: How long, Lord, how long?
Review: I was an enthusiastic fan of the series, couldn't wait for the next book to come out, then read... this... whatever it is. It's like the time you spend in an airport waiting for a delayed connector flight. You're not going anywhere, you don't have much to do, and nothing interesting is going on - you're really just keeping your place in case something happens later. It just seems that Robert Jordan has lost his enthusiasm for this story but doesn't quite know how to end it. Maybe he hasn't been able to come up with an idea for another series so he's not ready to let this one end because he needs the money?
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Summary: The Wheel Weaves as the Wheel Will - just not in bk 10
Review: At the beginning of book 10
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1) Perrin's wife has been kidnapped by the Shaido
1a) Masema is on his way to meet the Dragon.
2) Elayne is pregnant with the Dragon's child
3) Mat is on the run with the Daughter of the Nine Moons
4) Rand has cleansed saidin & is planning his next move
4a) Cadsuane is trying to figure how to advise/manipulate the Dragon
5) Egwene & Gareth Bryne are preparing to lay siege to Tar Valon A few hundred pages later -------------------------
1) Perrin's wife remains kidnapped
1a) Masema still on his way.
2) Elayne's still is pregnant
3) Mat is on the run with the Daughter of the Nine Moons
4) Rand has cleansed saidin & is planning his next move
4a) Cadsuane is still trying to figure how to advise/manipulate the Dragon
5) Egwene & Gareth Bryne are preparing to lay siege to Tar Valon Also the Mat-Tuon interaction sounds very similar to the Perrin-Faile saga. Its like the story has gone into a slow-motion. This one definitely has no place in the series. Someone building a collection/looking to complete the series can safely skip book 10 without losing any threads.
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Summary: All Filler no Killer story line
Review: I was first introduced to this series by my best friend when I was sixteen and I fell in love with it. I went and bought all the books and I couldn't put it down. I could hardly pick this one up. I felt obligated to finish it just because this was at one time my favorite book series. I just finished the book and I realize that I could just as easily have read the last few chapters of the book and I would have gotten all the very little plot advancement I needed to go on to the next book. A couple of things happen but all I can say is not enough to make it worth reading. I used to try to defend some of the slower moving books (starting with book 7 really) but I can't defend book 10. If things had been like this in book 1-6, Rand would still be wandering around in the Waste talking to the Clan Cheifs, Perrin would still be in the Two Rivers fighting off the White Cloaks and the Trollocs, only you would see him trying to scheme with the Women's Circle and the Village Council. Basically this story has lost it's edge what takes RJ three books to say he used to say in one chapter. Read the books and you'll see I'm not exagerating (sp?) My biggest question after reading the book was how someone could write so much and say so little. There is no such thing as a set-up book, not when they went from the Two Rivers to the Blight in one book and from the Borderlands to Falme with a huge battle at the end of the next. There was way too much action before to suggest that he needs an entire book to set up the next part of the story. He can do better, he did before, he can again. There is no excuse for a book where absolutely nothing of import happens until the end and what does happen should have at the beginning. This book was a waste of good paper!!!!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I have been reading this series loyally since I first picked up Eye of the World six years ago(1998). I loved it and all of the books up to A Path of Daggers. Winter's Heart was tough. That was the book where i started to feel that jordan had lost his way. The only reason I say that it is average is that something happened in the END! Yet, i feel that i should not have to say that about a Robert Jordan book. I was hoping this was just slight slip up on the path to a bright and glorious series. I wish I had realized that Jordan was setting me up for an immense disappointment. Crossroads of Twilight ( the one book in the series i had to purchase in hardcover, i will never forgive myself) is literary feces. It reeked of boredom and little plot movement. The sad part is that i could tell this as soon as i read the Prologue and First Chapter. It was impossible to read beyond that. I honestly believe that Jordan is either trying to make more money by selling filler or that he simply has lost his creative passion, spark, etc. I recommend Crossroads of Twilight for the blind, the stupid, the foolish, and/or the fanatical(who take blindness, stupidity, foolishness to the levels of income Jordan makes writing this....filler). After all, it is only these types that will continue to purchase filler/literary feces. The best thing to do is to teach Jordan a valuable lesson about greed and not buy the rest of the series. I am offended, angered and very disappointed by this recent offering Jordan calls a book.
However, for those of you interested in a series and author who is leagues above Jordan in writing ability and integrity, I recommend A Song of Fire and Ice series by the great George R. R. Martin. Martin takes his time writing his books. He explains that he does this to ensure the reader receives a polished literary gem of the utmost quality(not a direct quote but the general idea he is trying to convey to demanding readers). So stop buying and reading Jordan and start reading something WORTH YOUR TIME AND MONEY!
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Summary: Crossroads of Mediocrity
Review: First, I have to say that it's well-written, with consistent characters.
Unfortunately, it's well-written boredom. I waited impatiently for this book, and was rewarded with something I had to trudge through. Rereading it doesn't help. Rereading the series doesn't make this book any better - but it does make the rest of them look very good.
I'll probably still buy the next book, because I do want to know what happens next... but I'm still very, very disappointed.
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Summary: This book is beyond excellent
Review: Shame on all of you who gave this book one star, or anything less than five! Yes, I can see how it might be disappointing if you have waited for several years to have many questions answered and situations resolved, but try to see past your impatience for the gem that is Crossroads of Twilight. Jordan is not being paid by the word, he is capturing the essence of when time seems to slow or stop before a momentous occurence. My advice: Re-read the entire series before reading Crossroads. That way, it won't seem like a letdown. You will really see what a beautiful piece of work this book is, and appreciate the in-depth character development you get.
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Summary: Oh dear
Review: Oh, how the mighty have fallen! The first 4 or 5 books in this series were excellent, but since then each book has been worse than the last. Unfortunetly, this book tops them all. I have never encountered a book that took so long to say next to nothing. I would say that 80% of the text is description and 20% is plot-advancing dialogue. It takes Jordan, on average, an entire page to go from "Hello" to "How do you do?" Filler, anyone? Not to mention the myriad of characters who all blend together because none of them are particularly memorable. Apparently, all Aes Sedai have some sort of hive-mind that gives them all the same personality, but different motivations. I could rant on and on about Jordan's obsession with every character's clothing or the inner digressions each character has after every line of dialogue. But I won't. If you're like me, and you must learn the fate of Randland, then read this book and get it over with. Hopefully, book 11 will have a plot.
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Summary: A painful turn of the Wheel
Review: Well if you are reading a review about book 10 of a series - you already have invested about 8,000 pages in the Wheel of Time world. Robert Jordan has created a very detailed world filled with magic and sword fights. A lot of fans have compared him favorably to Tolkien. The first 5 books of the series I would have to agree that he does have some of Tolkien's epic story telling ability. Unfortunately this series as become mired in details with little plot momentum. To be fair, I felt that parts of the Lord of the Rings dragged too. Well many reviewers have already stated that not much happens in Crossroads. Rand is hardly in the story - Matt and Perrin are in the same situation that they start in with a small character arc for Perrin, and the Aes Sedai on both sides are very worried but take little action except for a foolish move at the end. It is very frustrating to push through hundreds of pages without any plot developments. I would recommend you skip this book, read the reviews on book 11 and if favorable, just read the 100 pages of story recap that Jordan always puts at the beginning of his books. Why is this story so bad? I think the characters developed too much power too fast. Where you were very concerned if a small party of common folk would escape evil forces in the first couple books, now you have Rand - the most powerful male on the planet, Perrin - more venerable but still leading a sizable army, Mat - seemingly too lucky to die, Elayne is very close to being a Queen, Egwene is leading the Aes Sedai, I have no idea what Nynaeve is doing, etc. Each of the characters is very powerful so you would expect epic decisions and large scale battles - instead you get plenty of introspection and soul searching. I have little fear that any of these characters will actually die so there is little suspense. I found parts of the Wheel of Time incredible - when Rand saw the history of the Aiel, trying to escape Shadar Logoth, learning about the forsaken. The world of the Wheel of Time is very reach and I would think full of exciting tales to tell. Crossroads seems to pick the most mundane to tell. I do plan to ready the reviews of the upcoming books and would love to see this tale through the Last Battle. I just hope the next book is not as painful for the readers.
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