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Summary: Wheel of (Filler)...Time
Review: Robert Jordan should be embarassed by writing this book and compelling consumers to reading yet another 600 + pages of filler. ... For those faithful fans not yet disappointed, a point of advice.....SKIP THIS BOOK! NOTHING HAPPENS OF ANY CONSEQUENCE! As for me, I'll wait on the next book and hope others will act as litmus paper, giving me insight regarding the readability of what's to come.
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Summary: Has Robert Jordan gone senile
Review: Despite the waning of this series, "The Wheel of Time" has consistently provided; believable characters, thick and rich detail, well thought out development, well paced action, and an amazing world parallel to our lives but with enchanting differences. Crossroads of Twilight has NONE of that. The characters feel stale, and uninteresting. The detail that Jordan had so mastered was taken to excruciating levels. I couldn't stand reading through four pages about what the feel of the camp and the inside of a tent was. After it was already introduced! Each of the characters separate plot lines lead to nothing. No form of resolution, no answers to previous questions, and tedious new questions. Ether Robert Jordan is trying to sap every last dime out of this series, he has the worst case of writers block ever (despite almost 700 pages 0 content!), or he is senile. DON'T BUY THIS BOOK UNTELL THE NEXT ONE COMES OUT. Then make sure that one is not trip either.
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Summary: Fever dreams were better.
Review: If I hadn't been sick in bed with the flu, I would never have made it to the end of this book. It was so boring I longed for my fever to return so I could hallucinate a better plot. This was such a great series for six wonderful books. Then it started dying a slow (sloooooow) death. It's sad, really. And the discussions I've been seeing about it remind me way too much of what I heard back when Lucas brought out Phantom Menace. Oh, how we cling to the rose that has wilted! Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to get together with my creative fellow fans and we're going to have a WOT roleplaying game that starts right after Lord of Chaos - - and maybe then we'll feel a bit better knowing that at least we have a killer premise for a gaming world.
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Summary: A Nagging Wife
Review: most of the reviewers on this page have been at it since issue number 5. it's an entertainment, guys, not intellectual piece, nor a college text book that you absolutely must readd. if you don't like it just drop it. don't buy the book anymore and quit qhinning. as for the rest of Jordan fans, like myself, well ... READ ON !
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Summary: Should have wrapped the series up 5 books ago
Review: The beginning 3 or 4 books were quite good with interesting storylines and ideas. Unfortunately the series was dragged out beyond good story-telling. I am not surprised since it is on the bestseller list, but I am surprised a lot of people are still buying the book (I borrowed it from the library and did not find it interesting enough to read the whole book). The story has been dragging, nothing much is happening, the characters are non-descript and boring. I wish it was wrapped up 5 books ago and this could have been a classic.
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Summary: Pathetic..... ALL FILLER!
Review: Everything that happened in this latest installment could have been written in two chapters. NOTHING HAPPENED! Robert Jordan has definitely fallen in love with his characters... and lost total sight of telling a story. He has probably a couple hundred characters now in this story.... so it is easy to see how he can write over 600 pages of filler/fluff/psuedo character development. Enough already! I'm not sure how he is going to salvage the mess he has created. He has turned one of (if not the) best fantasy stories into a never ending saga to create more and more characters. Enough characters already..... Mr Jordan needs to get back to TELLING A STORY!
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Summary: Still standing at the Crossroads
Review: Believe the other one star reviews. Honestly, you could skip this book, read the next one and pick up right where you left off [from book 9]. I still think Robert Jordan is a good writer and his attention to detail is astounding, but that attention to detail is what's slowing the series down. I don't want to read a page devoted to describing how a person walks into a tent or what their dress looks like. Things that could be sufficiently summed up in a couple sentences are instead getting multiple paragraphs. Add to that weaving in new characters for additional subplots and our original characters are only in about half the book. One has to wonder if RJ is just prolonging the series for more profit.
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Summary: Robert Jordan drags out another
Review: It's a shame... once again, Robert Jordan shows his talent for drawing the series out even further, giving the story more twists and complications when he should be resolving the 4,009 plots he's already introduced. C'mon, RJ, how much more involved can you make this? The Wheel of Time puts soap operas to shame for the sheer drag-it-out factor. It wouldn't be so bad if the time between books was decreasing. But instead, fans waited two years and three months for this last book... as opposed to the *mere* two years they waited for the previous book. How long will he make us wait for another book that complicates the plot even further? My grandkids will no doubt father children who will be wondering when the series will end. Boo to Robert Jordan. He's become a money-hungry, greedy writer with more concern for his own pocket than his fans. His books no longer provide satisfying content and just plain take too long to produce. This will be the last of his series that I read.
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Summary: What a colossal disappointment...
Review: I have just finished the highly anticipated Crossroads of Twilight and I'm still wondering when my anticipation will be met. This book is repetitive, ill-defined, and ultimately boring. Chapters are filled with inane detail and mindless thoughts and dialogue with very little true plot resolution whatsoever. If the entire series was finished this book might be forgiven in light of the overall series, but to wait for years only to read this tripe really ticks me off. The author's lack of creativity and focus in combination with publisher's inept editing and dollar-driven marketing strategy are alienating fans and are killing what used to be the best fantasy series in decades. In truth, if Crossroads of Twilight had been the first book in the Wheel of Time series there never would have been enough of an audience to warrant a second book.
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Summary: "Oops I did it again"
Review: Like a broken record, repeating it over and over again. How many times does a reader need to be reminded that Aes Sedai pierce you with a stare and the world is so complex and so much is happening (Oedipus complex maybe). Oops, I lost the plot somewhere. This story "Crossroads of Winters Heart in Twilight" is the culmination of 3 very bad books. I fear there is no end in sight. Jordan has become entangled in his own web of mistrust, deceit, and perhaps is himself tainted by the source (whiskey that is). I enjoyed this series, for years, eagerly awaiting the next installment. I have lost my interest and am contemplating putting this series to rest, COT has done nothing to change my mind. What started so well, has spun out of control. Maybe next time.
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