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Summary: The Best I have read so far
Review: So far I have read all the books up to this one and it is so far the best I have read. The book whaen I read it plays like a movie in my head and is so intense in the most part that I couldn't put it down. You think you know what is going to happen next but 9 out of 10 times your wrong and if you do put the book down you'll be guessing what is going to happen untill you start reading again. This series being so long and but always actionpacked outdoes the Lord of the Ring. I recomend this book to anyone who likes fntasy and adventure cause it has it all.
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Summary: Good, and bad, I would give it three and a half if I could
Review: This book is pretty good, but in some parts it drags. It is highly annoying, however, do to the fact that all the woman are constantly mad over nothing, and men are constantly slammed to the wall if they say 'what a nice day' about how subborn and stupid and wool headed they are. Then the whole thing with Nyneave tugging on her braid, I would like to tug it out of her head. She is always mad at someone, for no reason at all, and the only charcter you still like is Perrin because he's the only one who isn't whiny and makes dumb choices. The action is really good, when there is action, though the book could have been shortened to about 300 pages. But the whole channeling thing is cool, and it has great potential, lets just hope he can hold on to the same quality as the first four in the future.
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Summary: In my opinion, Jordan's finest yet
Review: In this book many different issues are addressed. When I first read this book the plot absolutly shocked me. The deaths of several main characters shock the WoT universe, creating voids and resulting power struggles. Personally I feel that is so far is Jordan's finest and the best in the series.
The action, is intense including 2 major battes (in the same book), confration with multiple Forsaken, not a boring dialogue filled book (unlike Crossroads...),increased character depth, and awesome twists to the plot (of which some haven't come back into effect yet...). Quite simply this is the Wheel of Time powerhouse novel were Jordan hits everynote in fullstride. I strongly recomend readers to start at the beginning and wait until they reach The Fires of Heaven. This is a very solid read, please enjoy it to the fullest.
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Summary: Man bashing galore
Review: If you like man bashing, arrogant women. This is the book for you. I thought that the women would get better as the series went on, but it's much worse. I don't understand what they are so angry about. It's bizarre.
This entire book is basically dedicated to these snippy, condescending, man hating women. I don't know if I can continue the series. About 900 pages of this is too much. OK, OK men are stupid...I get it.
I have to say my favorite part of the series so far was when Egwene got beat to a pulp.
I wonder if Robert Jordan is really a man?
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Summary: Nice Job
Review: Not the best, but Jordan moves the story along. That's more than I can say for his later efforts.
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Summary: Why
Review: If it wasn't for Perrin and Mat I'd give up on this series. The first three books thrilled me. I loved the world and the characters, knowing that there was going to be at least another 8 of these was amazing. How could it all go so wrong so fast. I've gone from loving and caring about Rand to thinking the sooner the mad man dies the better. All the women have turned into an absurd caricature of a universal Womens Circle. Jordan endlessly repeats himself (I can only think it is for people who have picked up the books half way through, because surely he doesn't need to remind his readers minor points after this long) and his plot devices are childlike at times. I admit that he is keeping me reading these books and that is for two reasons 1. I want to be there when Rand dies and 2. I have to read something while I wait for the new George RR Martin book to come out. If there is anyone out there who reads Robert Jordan and hasn't read George RR Martins 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series I suggest you switch NOW.
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Summary: okay, but sub-par for the series
Review: I had a few problems with this book. First of all, there are some scenes that are just plain repetitive. Every chapter about Elayne and Nynaeve is just them bickering about each other for wearing skimpy clothes, like a book for 13 year old girls. I think this book gets better reviews because the end is extraordianary. The last 200 pages or so are top notch, but the rest of the book is just uneventful. I mean the first time Jordan said that Nynaeve showed too much "pale bosom", it was fine, but if you pay close attention he says it dozens of times throughout the course of the novel. I stopped at about page 600 to read another book, and after I returned I liked the rest of it, but it is just too long and drawn out (kind of like the series in general). Definitely the worst book in the series, but you have to read it to appreciate the later ones. It is a necessary evil.
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Summary: I'm still puzzled about what the title means.
Review: Something to do with balefire? Lightning? The tempers of the people in the book? I still don't really know what "The Fires of Heaven" stands for, and I must admit that troubles me. But not to the point of reading the book again. This book's content made no impression on me. I can't remember anything that happens in "The Fires of Heaven" other than three scenes near the very end. I have no idea why. This amnesia set in two weeks after I first read the book, and has continued since. At the time I read it, I still really liked the series, which I was reading from the library, had just finished "The Shadow Rising" extremely quickly, and hurtled into "The Fires of Heaven." It took me a month to get to the last page. This was where the series's plotlines suddenly exploded into a million writhing lines of illogic. It must have been, because when I started "Lord of Chaos" (which I liked much better), there were those plotlines. But only vague images of this book itself remain to me. If you're reading "Wheel of Time" for excitement, you might want to skip directly to the end of "The Fires of Heaven." There are several interesting battle scenes that might make your blood pound without reading the rest of the book. (I won't reveal them for spoilers' sake). Why review this book, then, if it made so little impression on me? Because that's not what should have happened. I was in the middle, so far as I knew, of an exciting series- grant that I was younger then- and one where I actually cared about the world if not the characters. I thought the pace would continue. I thought Rand would change the Aiel in some dramatic way. I thought there was a plot somewhere in all the Aes Sedai bickering. I thought the thing I wanted most would happen, and Faile would finally die. But this book slammed me dead. It was a year before I started "Lord of Chaos," and then I didn't miss the presence of "Fires of Heaven." So, even though my reaction to this book is mostly indifference, mixed with it is a grumbling dissatisfaction. I think that Jordan sabotaged himself with this book. Various reviewers pinpoint various places in the saga that made them give up. This book wasn't enough to make me give up, but it was enough to warn me that Jordan was not an undisputed genius and could not walk without faltering. Up until that point I had thought he was. The one star is because there are no 0-star options. Well, and because I still wonder what the title means.
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Summary: slowing down
Review: The story starts to slow down in this book. There are a lot of characters in a lot of different places. Be prepared to start consulting the appendix.
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Summary: Did I buy the director's cut by mistake?
Review: ***2.5 stars*** Because my copy of this book has about 400 pages of material that is completely worthless, does nothing to advance the plot or enhance character development, and is a general waste of time. And yet I'm still giving it a slightly higher rating than the last one. Why? Well, despite my above comments, I think number 5 is actually more focused and moves a bit better than number 4. This is not so much an endorsement of Fires of Heaven as a recognition of how Shadow Rising was so horrendously written. Fires of Heaven still has most of the problems that plagued Shadow Rising. Needless summation of previous events, characters reduced to caricatures, saying in 50 pages what could be more effectively done in 10 or 20, etc... it just has the feel that Jordan has totally lost control of his series and is drifting aimlessly. He seems to have written the parts of the story that he was sure about in the first few books, but then he let the scope of his series overwhelm him and so now, with this book and the previous one, he has produced 2000+ pages of material that can only be described as very disappointing, after showing some promise in books 2 and 3. Final caveat: lots of this book take place in Telaranriod, and that bothers me because Telaranriod is one of the sillier, more illogical concepts developed in this series. The notion of a "dreamworld" which is an actual physical copy of the real world, but where nothing is permanent except for injuries to a person's body is a metaphysical nightmare of an idea that Jordan really botched thoroughly.
But is this surprising? By now, no.
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