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Summary: Too much battle of the sexes
Review: I like the Jordan series, but the battle of the sexes is becoming fastidious. It's commendable the way Jordan has cast women into powerful roles in the series, but he has done so to a fault. It seems to me that women are not only equal to the men, but superior. The women can hardly say anything at all about the men without some dispariging remark. If the roles were reversed and the comments about the men were made about women, the series wouldn't survive. This book seems to be the culmination of predominant sexist theme in the book. The sexism is the antithesis of what we see in the real world, and it is just as irritating. The book itself is good if you can ignore this feature, or if it doesn't bother you. The idea of Elayne bonding Rand just seems absurd to me and it castrates what should be the most powerful character in the series. Of course I'll keep reading, I have too much time invested in the series to stop now.
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Summary: Better than Shadow Rising
Review: This is better than the last book The Shadow Rising, but isn't as good as the first three. Still a great book and a wonderful read. I was amazed on the character devlopment this one had. I can't believe Jordan is able to maintain such a daunting task as dragging this series out while keeping reader's interest.
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Summary: For those who say the series is going down hill...
Review: Although this book is not the best in WOT it is necessary. Jordan has created a wonderfull series, but whithin the series he needs a few stepping stones, this is one of them. Be patient, get through the stepping-stone books so that you can enjoy the great books that come after it. This book is very important because it introduces the Aiel, they definatly have a big part to play in the series. BE patient and remember these books are a SERIES they are not ment to be judged alone. Think of the WOT series as a single book and all the books chapters in the WOT book. No one judges a book by a couple chapters.
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Summary: Good, but not great.
Review: I felt this book did not pack as much punch as the first 4, but that's not to say I didn't like it. I liked it a lot, actually, and thought the ending was very good. Nynaeve vs Moghedien was awesome! And I (like everyone I'm sure) am dying to know who Asmodean sees at the end. Here's hpping that both Moiraine AND Lanfear are still alive and duking it out somwhere.
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Summary: Actions would speak louder than all these words....
Review: This volume is where I gave up on the "Wheel of Time" series. The scenes became too repetitious, all the characters started sounding alike, and the overall story had long since lost its direction. Strange, but I recall being impatient during the first 100 pages of volume I, "Eye of the World." That was just a hint of the frustration to come. Jordan created what could have been a fascinating world with a well-imagined matriarchal society, and hinted at many intriguing things about its past... then drifted off into endless scenes with the female characters b***hing about the men. If the series ever ends, the publisher should hire somebody to boil the whole thing down to 1,500 pages or so.
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Summary: The start of the downhill
Review: After the well paced, throughly enjoying start of this series, The Fires of Heaven shifted Robert Jordan's overrated series into a new, slower gear...a gear that it still has not shifted out of, as any reader of A Path of Daggers will tell you. It is here that he decided to fragment his epic story into several hundred subplots, peopled by several hundred minor, flat characters, and written with several hundred repeated phrases and descriptions.Rather than continue on with a focused, interesting tale, Jordan instead decided to create the never-ending Melrose Place of fantasy, with characters popping in and out at a head spinning pace. A terrible waste of paper. Read the first three books in this series as a trilogy, then, for the love of god, stop their before you get sucked in...
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Summary: Great read, but to much detail
Review: This book and the whole series before it is a great read! It has a good plot. I agree with people who say it is like reading several different books at a time as Rand and his comrades are fighting for the Light all over this fantasy world. The only reason why I don't give it five stars is because it is way to detailed and has a lot of extra stuff that Jordan doesn't need to put in. It would be the same, if not better, if Jordan cut off a lot of that detail that sometimes interferes with the story.
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Summary: Overwhelming only to the faint of heart (and mind)
Review: Once again Jordan scores another bucket. This book makes you wonder if Jordan will ever or even can wrap up the series (of course he will and can 'cause he's the shiz). A really big book (just like the rest in fact) that has a few slow parts (but then again, when else would you be able to put it down and get some sleep @@:'). My only beef against the book is that Jordan's fetish with female anatomy (cleavage shots anyone) gets old and anoying (it's prevalent throughout the series in fact), but overall an awesome book even though I would rank it as the worst in the series.
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Summary: Great Addition!
Review: Although I do generally agree with everyone else saying that the series is slowly beginning to lose some of its initial 'oomph', I must say that this book still tops the ranks of one of the best WoT books in the series. And BTW, I do like Nynaeve so you guys can stop it with the insults about her 'braid tugging' and 'skirt smoothing'! Unfortunately, I don't quite like what Jordan has done with his characters. They started out pretty likable, with definitive characteristics and their own minds, but now I see that they've degenerated to extremes. The women as usual have almost formed their own unofficial universal Women's Circle, with Elayne, Aviendha, Egwene and the rest trying to rid the world of men (even though it's pretty obvious who they've thrown their hearts out for ...). Rand has lost all his appeal to me as the central character of the series, becoming more like a madman muttering to himself all the time, while trying to puzzle women out and defeat all the Forsaken for his 'immaculate' plans. Mat has always been irritating, so I'll just skip him, but Perrin was totally obliterated from this particular book! Sometimes, it gets pretty unnerving for someone with such a terrible memory like me to keep up with the central ppl in the story when they aren't even included in certain books... Anyway, the WoT is still THE series to read! I've already bought the next one, so I'm in no hurry to get to the end (if it ever comes! j/k Jordan! Take all your time! PLEASE!).
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Summary: I have found the Wheel of Time series totally engrossing.
Review: Being particularly fond of lengthy series, Robert Jordan delivers the goods. I didn't find out about the series until the eighth volume, but when I did I couldn't put them down. Just when the story gets you focused on one character, the perspective changes in such a way that another character is the central figure. I especially enjoy when they interract. I am also looking forward to the illumination to the allusions of this world perhaps being a time in our own very distant future (light bulbs, airplanes, even the original names of their notable historical figures). I can't wait to see where it's all going and am looking forward to ride.
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