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Summary: Not the best
Review: The first half of this book can be wriitten of but in the second half the action starts to pick up and the plot is left with many confrontations about to happen which should mean that the next book would be a classic. Lets hope so anyway.
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Summary: slow & tedious
Review: After a long wait since finishing the first 6 I paid for Path of Daggers with a gleam in my eyes. Days later I was deflated & felt so let down - just about everything in this book was second rate - did he have some kind of deadline to reach & so gave them this?? I just hope that 8 & 9 are like the first 6. To make me feel better after reading this I wiped the dust from my Steven Donaldson Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (1st & 2nd) & read an excellent Fantasy series
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Summary: I'm getting quite sad about it
Review: Reading all these reviews of PoD has become quite as long and boring as most of them say the book is! In fact, I really hope Robert Jordan reads these (and all the othere) reviews, so as to get an idea about what the Wheel has become lately. That's making me sad, man: this one should have been the best Fantasy series ever, but now it seems its very author is spoiling it all for... what? Self-inflation? money-lust (personally, I don't think)? Inertia? I dunno my friends...
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Summary: Call this book "Jordan Fires His Editor"
Review: I vaguely suspect that through a series of unfortunate oversights, this book never made it into the hands of a competent editor. Would that someone had taken a red marker and slashed and burned line after line of "smoothing her skirt," "tugging her braid," "eyes crept wider and wider in shock," "he/she wore ____"; and eighty-sixed any redundant dialogue, any clichéed action or reaction, and any reference to any character who made absolutely no impact on the forward motion of the plot. Had this been the case, Jordan would have been faced with the challenge of resolving at least one subplot before hitting the 300th page (pick one, Jordan -- ANY one!).If you want to know how lousy the writing really is, try reading it aloud for 5 minutes. "Finding his sneer, he raised a contemptuous eyebrow." Jordan can't find more than one way to describe an emotion; which is regrettable since most of his characters are only capable of one emotion. I didn't start reading this series because I expected high literature, but if Jordan is going to put his story on a rack and stretch it to 10 or, the Light forbid, more volumes, then I don't want to be subjected to a tedious rehashing of every one of his stock character descriptions. Ditch the cookie-cutter stereotypes, and if you can't develop any of the characters, then just tell the goddamned story. I'm not returning PoD for a refund or feeding it to the fire because I'll be reading it when I need an over-the-counter sedative.
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Summary: Condescending, disrespectful
Review: I am so disappointed in this book. I personally returned all three copies I got for Christmas. Nothing happens - except that Mr Jordan met his deadline for another customer-fleecing and made an already wealthy publisher some more much-needed pocket money. I feel disrespected - I was hoping that after 7 (in which very little happened) the plot would get revved up again and I could experience the excitement I had felt reading the first 5 books. What a clever trick - get your stupid readers hooked with the quality of the first few books, and then churn out some absolute drivel to keep them hanging - take their money but leave them questioning the wisdom of ever having started to read the series in the first place. Mr Jordan, we are the ones who have put you where you are, and have made you as well-off as you are now - show us more respect, stop being so lazy and start writing in the manner we know you can. Your integrity is seriously challenged by this book.
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Summary: never got beyond customer reviews
Review: I, like others, have been anxiously waiting for this book to come out. But after reading the reviews from fellow fans ... thank goodness I did not listen to "Critics" ... I think I will pass on this latest from RJ. Thank you Amazon.com for giving us this forum for reviews.
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Summary: I hope Mr. Jordan can see these reviews
Review: Because he needs some discipline. Anybody that can write books like the Eye of the World and the Great Hunt (Arguably two of the greatest fantasy books ever) and then turn out some kind of pulp mash like the Path of Daggers, definitely has lost direction. When I first got interested in the series last year, I read some of the interviews posted around the web and I thought Jordan was money hungry and arrogant. Then I kept reading the books in the series and I thought I had been wrong. Then Path of Daggers came out and I knew I was right. We are being had! I can't really imagine any other explanation for this book's quality than, Jordan had a deadline, he stopped writing where he was, and said, OK the book is done. It is amazing and outrageous that in the final chapters he opens up entirely new story lines and then just leaves them dangling. It is even more amazing that Tor books lets him get away with this. Readers unite, rise up, write Tor books and tell them to bring this prodigy back in line. He can do better and he should. For those of you who say that this book is a necessary part of the series here is a test. Let's call it a random sampling, so you can try it as many times as you like. 9/10 times you will get the same results: 1. Pick up the Great Hunt. 2. Open the book anywhere and read for one hour. 3. See if you can stop when the hour is up. 4. If you don't want to stop ask yourself why. 5. Try the same thing with path of daggers. 6. Do you want to keep reading for an hour? Was this book easier to put down? 7. See how far the series has degenerated.
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Summary: More of same
Review: The weather's changed, but nothing else has
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Summary: This book is a set up for the next one
Review: Since several plotlines in the WoT were solved in book 7, this book develops 3 new ones. By the end of the book, they are still being fleshed out and the characters are in even more danger. Its clear that they will be resolved in the next book (due in 2 years). Its almost like "The Path of Daggers" is the first 1/3 of the real book 8. My advice is to wait untill book 9 is out. At least then you will not have to wait 2 years for the clifhanger ending to be resolved.
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Summary: Commander Tom to Robert Jordan: Unacceptable
Review: If zero stars were an option, I would have selected it. This novel is awfull. Recommendation: I suggest that Jordan read some Terry Goodkin and see how to spend 600-700 pages developing a plot so spellbinding that you can't stop reading. POD has to be the longest read in history. Warning: Terry Goodkin is not for those who have given POD more than two stars. Too much plot and excitement here. You guys just stick with Jordan's sedate, puts you right to sleep style.
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