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Summary: This is one of the best books i've ever read!!!!!
Review: Surpassed only by The Eye of the World. This book was a little slower then others that i've read by Jordan.
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Summary: The best of the series
Review: This is my favorite book in the series. I love it. It rocks. Mat gets his army and Rand kicks some @$$. Long live RJ with the exception of books 6-8. Luckily book 9 has no where to go but up. Long live the band of the red hand!!!!!!
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Summary: Fantasy will never be the same!!
Review: When i first stepped in to the world of wot I was stunned by how jordan had created a world in the spirit of Tolkien and allso taken the step further where Tolkien came short. Jordans wild imagination along with his great writing-skills has changed fantasy forever. His storytelling, his charaters so alive and detailed and his creatures stunned me from the beginning to the end. The fourth book continues where the last ended and picks up the story and leads it to the end. Sometimes I had to laugh, some times I had to wipe away some tears. No book, or book-series has ever done that to me. Thanks Robert Jordan!!
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Summary: THE bEsT BoOk YeT!!!!!
Review: This book is AWESOME. For any people who find these books boring, I have to say that I am a 13 year old male who is reading 600-1000 page books by R Jordan.(paperback) If this bookand the others can keep the ongoing interest of a 13 year old whoever gives it a abd report must have a short temper or is very impatient. This book is a must-buy!!! I personally love the book so much because some really awesome things happen to Perrin, who happens to be my favorite character. Also, it really opens up the aiel people to all readers. Even if you have to mortgage your house...BUY THIS BOOK!!!
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Summary: A complex and wonderfully developed series
Review: The charachters are so well made, you really feel for them and the background is well developed and imense. There is always several things going on, but you are never lost. The whole series is complex and well written. If you liked magician you'll love this.
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Summary: Propbably the best so far
Review: This book is probably the best WOT so far. Jordan really works with Perrin (my favorite character). The other great part of this book is the detailed introduction of the Aiel. They are the overall coolest people throughout the book. Jordan makes WOT come to life agian with his best yet.
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Summary: The series continues on with no lull in the enchantment
Review: The Shadow Rising followed the previous books very well. It kept with the same themes, while adding many new twists and conflicts at the same time to create yet another spellbinding novel to keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page. As in all of Jordan's books, the characters and conflicts are so realistically placed into the fantasy world that it seems real, and makes you feel as if you were there. The book enchants even the less imaginative among us, and to try and figure out the complex "Game of the Houses" or any of the Forsaken's twisted plans can stretch any mind. Every little detail matters in these books, and everything is incoorporated together very masterfully.
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Summary: One of the best of the series....
Review: I REALLY dug this one. I mean, the opening sequence of the attack on Tear... the revelations in Rhuidean... seriously, someone else in one of the reviews says that the past "sounds suspiciously like technology"... and why shouldn't it? Jordan does a brilliant job of codifying the un-codifyable -- magic, folks -- and, in the flashbacks, showing its natural outgrowth in a developed and peaceful world! As Clarke says, "Any technology, sufficiently advanced, becomes indistinguishable from magic"... this works in reverse, too. And the the place of the Aiel, both in the present of the novels, and the past... jeez. It's just brilliant. And I still love Mat. Finally, he gets a way to stand up to the Aes Sedei.On the down side... wish that the portals and the races we met in this installment had been continued elsewhere. Wish that the Aiel baddies were a _little_ more human. I wish i hadn't been able to pick up on "zaim" (Aiel for "corn") as a direct derivation from "maize." I REALLY want to just slap Nynaeve around. GOD, she's annoying. But I KNOW people like that. So at least it supports the overall consistency. Jordan has a great imagination. If he's managed to parlay that into a vast and profitable series, which has, in turn, spawned hordes of ravening fans... well, more power to to him. And as I just shelled out $20+ for "The Path of Daggers," I guess I'll just ravine (can one actually _ravine_?) along with the rest of them.
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Summary: good
Review: This is a good book which expands the stories developed in the first 3 books of the series. I like Jordan's resourcefulness, his ability to assign his knowledge of different cultures to different peoples that appear in his series(roughly, japanese =Shienaran; Tuareg=Aiel; gypsy-Flower Children=Tuathan etc.)and combines them with assorted Tolkiana and mythologies. Especially wonderful I find his encorporation of serious concepts of shamanism, lucid dreaming etc. Reading his books is, in my opinion, not just "empty entertainment". Also, I really liked the detailed descriptions of people, of blackmith's work, for example, or of sailing, animals,... his inventions on new flower species, animals.. etc. ... Shows that RJ has a keen eye for facts as well as a good imagination and info-resources. The only (and i guess minor) problem i have is with the psychology of the characters, especially concerning "love". He has a few cliches he employs time and again. Worse, as opposed to the often sophisticated settings, the relationships tend to be rather linear and sort of pre-adolescent, with a lot of pouting, weird insecurities and little psychological growth. So that as the story develops the characters themselves remain frozen within their own cliches. As a consequence, the storyline becomes at times rather simplistic and repetitive. David
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Summary: Give it some time
Review: For all of you who are just picking up this series, dont let all the negative reviews beat you down. Some of the readers need to remember that this is a GRAND story, with very far reaching effects into a rich world. Instead of seeing each book on it's own, look at them as an entire story, one that has got to have a middle that builds up the end. It just happens to be that this is one LONG story, and, with that in mind, you can understand its LONG middle! I am sure that none of the readers would want Bobby to end the story in one quick swoop. -Take as long as you need Bobby, we'll still be buying the books...
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