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Summary: I have not read ANYTHING better!
Review: This entire series is getting better by the book. If someone FORCED you to read the first installment in the series (___Eye of the World___), you would not be able to stop reading until you finished the series!
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Summary: Not THAT good
Review: I wont write any spoilers,so feel free to read this.. :)
The Wheel of Time spins,and weaves the lives of our heroes..
I like the fact that they are gaining in Power..When I played ADND I never liked low level characters,and I was always anxious to grow..The heroes grow in power here..And at last Mat shows some of his ..Rand is as always talking to himself,thinking,plotting,not trusting anyone etc..
The chapters in Rhuidean are truly masterfully written.
I like the fact that the Forsaken show some intelligence (well,not all of them..but Lanfear does..)
I dont like the fact that they have no apparent purpose in their evilness..It is as a previous reviewer wrote a "I ll take the world cause it is there" story..anyway..
Now to the ever present most annoying feature for me:
The women!Ok,I ve actually met some women that act like Nynaeve,or Aviendha,or Egwene..BUT NOT ALL OF WOMEN..
If I lived in this world I would surely take oaths of celibacy ,and become a monk in order to avoid them..
They b&^$h and nag all the time.Aviendha especially this time takes the trophy of "Bi%ch of the milennia" from Nynaeve's hands..She expects Rand to respect and act according to an honor code he hasnt ever heard of..And he gives him hard time for not acting as he "should" ..
The book is not a page turner..It took me a month to read while the previous,only 3 days at most each..
It [isn't horrible],it just is not THAT good..
I like the fact though that is one of the few books that I tend to like the "bad guys".(Lanfear)
Oh,and somebody SHOOT FAILE... :)
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Summary: The Best so Far
Review: So Far, this book has been my favorite. It has finally progressed to where things start happening. Not like the first 3 which dragged a rut in my brain..lol. So much happens to each character. I don't like to copmplain in reviews so I'm hoping if you read it you keep an open mind!.
-peace
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Summary: Good Stuff
Review: This is the heart of the series. Read and appreciate.
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Summary: Not as good as the first 3, but a must read...
Review: Okay, These books are ill right (that means good), the first 3 are hella tight(which also means good), this fourth one kinda drags at parts, and no chapter really stand out like in the others. But, the main deal about the WoT is that you should read them all and in order.-Dont waste your money on the hard cover, youll thank me when you buy the paperback... -If you can check out a summary of the chapter if it starts getting dull, so you can get a better idea of where things are going... Okay, on to book five...Is it Ail (like ginger) or A-EEL (electric)
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Summary: I honestly don't know why I read it.
Review: Seriously. They did NOTHING in 980 pages. I just DO NOT CARE about the hair color and 'seductive eyes' of a merchant's wagon driver. Jordan may find it more beneficial to make Rand a little less crazy (what's up with the main character going bonkers? Nothing to do with his 'taint') and Moiraine a little less meddlesome than to prattle on and on about some very low cut dresses. That really annoys me. Nynaeve & Egwene, if it's even possible, are even more annoying. I really can find precious little good about this book. PS: how many sinuous lines can one thing have in four pages?
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Summary: Good if you have the patience.
Review: The fourth installment of the neverending Wheel of Time sees our hero Rand traveling to the Aiel Waste to fulfill another prophecy. Rand isn't only the Dragon Reborn, he's appearantly He Who Comes With the Dawn as well. The premis of this book was a lot more interesting to me than book 3. I mean, finally Rand get's some limelight and half the book's not about three girls at school? A lot of interesting background about the Aiel is revealed in this book as well as where Rand's own history fits into all this. You'll be surprised at some things. Unfortunately, by this point, Jordan is now Juggling over a dozen characters over four separate story threads. Let's count them. In the first thread we have Rand, Egwene, Moiraine, Lan, and Mat. In the second thread we have Perrin, Faile, and Loial, In the third we have Elayne, Nynaeve, Thom, and Juilin. In the fourth thread we have Min, Siuane, and Leane. That's not to count all the other supporting characters that readers of Jordan know could have their own threads at any time. In some ways this is both good and bad for the story. For those that enjoy the long drawn out soap operah, it's great. There's plenty to get sucked into. For those anxious for the plot to reveal itself however, it's sometimes agonizing. This book had a lot going for it. The subject matter was more interesting than in the previous books, but unfortunately, Jordan doesn't give you enough of it and worse, he doesn't stick to it. Everytime the book jumps to the characters and the storyline happening in Tanchico you're tempted to skip the chapter. Present, again, is Jordan's use of "convenient" storytelling. This time however, it's not Rand who's miraculously able to save the with much overdone powers-he-never-knew-he-had. Who woulda thought that one of the other characters (besides Rand and Moiraine who really cant) had the ability to take on a Forsaken toe to toe? I sure didn't. Well in this book, one of the characters is instantly elevated to Forsaken power level status. There hasn't been anything this dumb in the series since Nynaeve and Lan instantly fall in love in a matter of pages with no foreshadowing whatsoever in the first book. Some parts of the book are so great and others make you want to pull your hair out in frustration. Nothing really gets resolved in this book, though we do get to learn about the Aiel and Rand's history which is not limited to this life. This makes the book a worth addition to the series, but I sure hope it doesn't it doesn't turn into an "another book, another forsaken" formula. This book is not quite as good as the books two and three, though parts are fantastic (ie seeing Perrin develop into the part he's destined to play). It's good enough to get fans to read the next book, but you just can't help thinking these books could be so much better.
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Summary: The start of a new theme in the series, and started well.
Review: This book marks the beginning of a change in the characters that, so far, have been shown as naive and somewhat timid youngsters. As they have more responsibility and duty laid upon them, they adapt into stronger, more forceful personalities, and by the end of the book, are all quite different to what they were at the end of book 3.
Jordan does a very good job of carrying this out, the characters still act in a familiar way, they just reveal a stonger side to themselves. He has avoided the pitfalls in this area which would have led to botched characters that are completly different people to those followed in the first 3 books. TSR is a very strong book aside from the skilful character develepment too, it introduces the Aiel properly, who are always extremely refreshing and entertaining to read about. And we see Rand finally beginning to get to grips with the One Power, which has so far proven a very fickle gift. It also is split neatly into 3 separate plots, with their own separate climaxes, interspaced by sub-plots that are all entertaining to read. Jordan has done well with this book; it takes bold strides forward from the last one, and ends on a note which promises more in books to come.
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Summary: And let's go backwards, and forwards, and sideways...
Review: (Do *not* read this review if you have not read the book and still care. I just give too much away, because I am going to be very specific about what annoys me). I read this book in three days in late 1995. I have never reread it. There are reasons for that. Lots of 'em. Positives first. If it really distresses you to read anything negative about this book, then you can just read this part. -Rhuidean. Forget about selling the prologues to the books; Jordan should just sell the Rhuidean sections on their own. I would say they're worth the cover price, except that to fully understand them you have to wade through lots and lots and lots of sand of Aiel descriptions, dress descriptions, facial expression descriptions, and angst descriptions... Whoops. Excuse me while I put the annoyed part of my memory back in the cage for a moment. -Mat finally starts to develop 'special powers' as a character. That this, too, will become a dead end is not yet visible. -We see the Two Rivers again. Interesting idea in conception, though the execution was depressing. -Lanfear turns out to be the most interesting female character in the book. I think it's a bad sign when I'm cheering for the Dark side and I'm not supposed to. All right. Unleash the annoyance! -The villains are *unrelievedly* Dark. The Forsaken probably sold their own mothers into slavery. The Dark One wants to take over the world because...well, because it's there, I think. No one on the evil side seems to have the shred of a good quality, with the exception of some intelligence on Lanfear's part. That the supposed heroes are stupid, bratty teenagers does not help. -Rand has become rather crazed, and not due to the taint. Many of his actions left me scratching my head. *Why* does he trundle from one disaster to another? *Why* does he not tell the people around them things it could be vital for them to know? *Why* does he keep up this ridiculous prejudice against killing a woman? (This is yet another sign of the unrealistic quality of Jordan's world. Chivalry has no meaning when the women are so powerful). -Everyone seems really, really desperate to get out of Tear, especially considering how much time they spent to get there in the last book. And yet Jordan drags the scene, and drags the scene, and drags the scene. I kept expecting the characters to just bolt out of the Stone screaming. -Moiraine here officially succumbs to Creeping Female Rot. She tells other female characters that she suspects she knows the face of the man she will marry better than they know the faces of their future husbands. Does she bother explaining this? No, of course not. It would get in the way of her regular schedule of meddling. -For the first time, I started really noticing how many times a woman "crosses her arms beneath her breasts." Why? Was it just so Jordan could add the word "breasts" more times per page? -Faile is back again. She's posessive of Perrin, she won't listen to him, and she somehow convinces him that he loves her, even though you'd think Perrin would love a dead bird before her. She poisons the Two Rivers plotline, not that it wasn't bad enough without her. -Lots and lots of people have managed to survive in the Two Rivers. Is Perrin's family among them? Of course not. They have been destroyed, so that Perrin can Angst! And then there is more Angst! And then there is more Angst! -The Whitecloaks continue to get on everyone's nerves. If this is the Light, may the Dark come swiftly! -You learn more about the Aiel than you ever wanted to know, yet somehow, none of it is new. The women are still pushy, and they still abide by codes of courtesy they somehow expect outsiders to know by heart, just like the Aes Sedai. Take Dune and sprinkle it with Jordan's "endearing" descriptions of rocks and sand and the battles between the sexes, and there you go. I ended this book determined to ignore the female characters other than Lanfear as best as I could, other than dreaming of imaginative ends for them. Jordan doesn't write strong women; he writes a collection of shallow, shrill stereotypes, labels them "female," and slaps slightly different names on them. *sigh* It really is too bad that seeds like Mat and Rhuidean got planted in this manure.
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Summary: couldn't put it down
Review: I ripped through the series as fast as I could. I could not read the pages fast enough.
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