The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, Book 8)

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Summary: Save your time and money!
Review: This in my opinion is the worst book in the WOT series. You could completely skip this book and read the next, and would not have missed anything! Nothing happens in this book. Well OK without giving it away, to be fair, two things of any importance happens, but they could have been told in less than 100 pages. There was no significant character development, just battles that were so long winded, that after a while I didn't care who won. Even these had little significance to the WOT story. It seemed like Jordan just pumped out another book to please his fans and he really missed the boat this time. I look foward to his next book, but hope that I will learn a little bit more about the WOT world in the next 500 plus pages.

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Summary: Like a child tumbling over his own toungue...
Review: Jordan's previous efforts were some of the best books I've ever read, but Daggers, however, lacked consistency and momentum. A paragraph on this character, a chapter on that, a page describing characters that have no impact through the entire book, then back to other characters I had almost forgotten about. He should pick no more than three central characters and tell their stories, not narrate the lives of 8 distinct groups of people.

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Summary: This took two years !!!!!!
Review: As a dedicated fan for the last ten years, there has been a serious degradation of quality in the story line. The story hasn't moved in the last two books and frankly this installment was a chore to read. I also expected a longer book, but this one is eighty pages shorter than the last. Is it a sellout to the fans, maybe , money is important but you have to consider the needs of the fans and what they have come to expect in a product from the past. With authors like Terry Goodkind knocking on your door, you soon find that the throneroom is empty.

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Summary: A waste of my time.
Review: I first picked up on this series when visiting America early this decade and, along with family and friends, have followed it ever since. I have now had enough and wont bother with it anymore. Don't authors work with editors anymore? Somebody needs to tell Jordan that what initially interested his readers was the way his characters were forcefully drawn in an intricate and well developed plot.This book has boring characters and no evidence of a plot. Goodbye!!

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Summary: Hang in there Robert
Review: I' know your books are sagging but just put a little more effort in to it. you shouldn't leave out a character like Mat. Try and put back the spunk in the characters. call me if you have a problem.

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Summary: Love the whole series, he is great at keeping your attention
Review: He is great at developing interesting charachters and complicated plots; This book is no exception. It is even more interesting on an unabriged tape series, because you skip things in reading sooner or later that you don't on tape. The only critizism I is that he didn't seem to move around quite as much in this book. He would stick to one situation longer than I remember in previous books so I kept on worndering what was happining with the other plots.

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Summary: Slow start, finished strong
Review: I thought this was a decent book. A good continuation of the Wheel of Time. I did find that not much was resolved in this book. This book, however did hint at a very strong Book 9 which I am looking foward to.

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Summary: The 600 page vacuum
Review: The intriguing world of the first several novels has deteriorated into noisy office politics punctuated with troubling fetish-like mental fugues replete with spankings, silly empty threats of skinning people alive, and throughout the S&M world of the Seanchan lives in the background. From my POV, Jordan is free to dream of his sexless bondage fantasies, but I sure don't want to read the result when they print through onto paper.

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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!
Review: PLEASE NOTE THAT THE RATING FOR THIS BOOK IS INFLATED! MANY JORDAN FANS WROTE ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY LOVE THE WOT SERIES BEFORE THIS BOOK EVEN CAME OUT. THEREFORE, THESE NON-REVIEWS ADDED AT LEAST A HUNDRED FIVE STAR REVIEWS TO THE RATINGS. There is a famous quote which states, "I wanted to write you a short letter, but for lack of time, I wrote you this long one instead." Anyone who thinks Jordan is doing them a favor by vomiting out this pathetic excuse for a novel because it has over 500 pages is mistaken. Every character is now a predictable cookie cut out. Since Jordan doesn't use a plot, writing POD must have been as easy as breathing. I pity fantasy literature if Jordan is considered one of the best. He sold his loyal fans out with his last 2 books. I have to laugh at all the fans who say, "This book was slow because he is building up to an incredible Book IX." Most readers of the WOT series considered Book VII to be slow. Now that we know book VIII is even less fulfilling, what does that tell us about Book IX. I suggest the fantasy genre needs a 12 step program to get Jordan addicts away from his WOT cash cow. If you can't step away from the WOT after the last 2 books, you need help!

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Summary: oops
Review: One might be asking themselves, what happened. Thus series started off with potential but jordan is focusing more and more on the bickering between good friends and the girls have constant cat fights, as big of a fan as I am of R. Jordan, you have to ask, what's going on?