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Summary: excellent in quality.
Review: well worth reading. The depth and interplay of characters is downright wonderfull. The scale at which Jordan writes is admerble. Matt dosent get an apperance in this book. Morgise (ex-queen) Perrin, Seaine, Min, the black aja, Seanchan, sea folk, the prophet, forsaken, Nynaeve, Elayne, Egwene, and Rand take part in this book along w/ almost everyone else. This book will leave you wondering about Rand, Perrin, Min, Matt, and Perrins wife, Egwene, and what those forsaken have up their sleaves. Not to mention the sanity of one Rand al Thor. A good read.
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Summary: Long winded, boring and very disapointing
Review: After two and one half years, I eagerly picked up this book hoping I could enjoy it in the same way as I had the first six. Unfortunately, after I was halfway through, I put the book down and didn't pick it up again for several days. Only a long flight to the East Coast allowed me to gather enough interest to finish it. I thought the 7th book was rather bad, but hoped it was an aberration. I was wrong. It's too bad that so many people are starved for a good story. If the next one takes another two years to write, I really don't care. It could end now and I would never wonder what would have happened. It's too bad Mr. Jordan couldn't keep the pace going as he had in the first five of these exciting novels. I am certain that if Prof. Tolkein is not spinning in his grave over Jordan's theft of his ideas, he's more furious at the man for insulting his readers.
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Summary: Love the characters, hate the soap opera...
Review: I will admit that I am a Jordan junkie, and will faithfully go out and purchase number nine whenever it manages to make it to the shelves. For over a year I waited ever so patiently for the eight installment in this fantasy monolith and when I had returned to my comfortable sitting room with a bottle of wine and a full pack of smokes to lose myself in the world that Jordon had masterfully crafted in his first few works I was painfully dissapointed. Over a year of making excuses for Jordan's sluggish writing in volumes six and seven and the eigth provides nothing more than pulp fiction. Sure I love the characters and read on to continue to spend time with them, but I was expecting a little more than 900 page taster of events to come. I hope the ninth volume will vindicate my faith and hope in Mr. Jordon and the editors at Tor.
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Summary: Jordan needs to re-focus because he's losing it!
Review: At least these reviews don't say Jordan is better than Tolkien anymore, that was always over-exaggerated. Path of Daggers lacks all of the elements that made the first 4 -5 books in the series great. In fact there is no climax or ending, after reading this, you can't help but get the impression that he just quit writing ended each subplot wherever it was, and shipped the book for the Christmas selling season.Where have all the songs, jokes and deep character interaction gone? Each character has become a parody of him/herself. Rand, Nynaeve, even Elayne. Why do we need a whole sequence of chapters to explain Perrin's two day visit to a city. A great author would have brought everything into balance by telling is only what we need to know. Who cares about the carrots in Nynaeuve's lentil stew being too hard? Tolkien wrote 10 books worth of background information for the Lord of the Rings. But he edited it down to a phenomenal 3 book series that has become a modern classic by a genius. then he left it to his son to publish all of the historical details and stuff like what elves ate when times were tough. Maybe if we're lucky Jordan will have a son who will edit this series down to a trilogy that deserves to be mentioned in the same paragraph as the Lord of the Rings. If you haven't started this series yet, just wait for that day, or if you want to see what all the hype is about, just read the Eye of the World and then wait for the post-humous readers digest version. As it is, you're going to be waiting at least five years to read the end of this story anyway. Jordan is like a guitarist who thinks he will be Jimi Hendrix because he plays fast...Tolkien wrote a great story, Jordan has just given us 8 books and the promise of at least 3 more...
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Summary: It took how long to write this?
Review: This series started off so promising, but it gets worse with each book. The plot lines do not advance, its just a bunch of people jumping from place to place. The main characters never grow. If they are in the book at all. How can you write a book and not have one of central figures in it, did Matt get abducted by aliens and taken to another planet? Jordan writes like he has no idea where he wants to go or is just bored with the whole thing. Maybe he since he made his millions he just doesn't care any more. He is called the great one and the master and other such lofty titles but a master who takes two years to write a book should put out a better product than this. I am thankful for libraries so i don't have to waste money buying these books. I don't care when the next book comes out because i am through with this series.
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Summary: Do not start this series!!
Review: Terrible book! Jordan has build an incredible world, but does he have the ability and desire to do something with it? The problem with this book is not that nothing happens, but that you care less and less about what happens to anyone as you read it. I started out interested in what had happened to Matt, but after finishing, felt that he was probably better off not being in this book. I certainly wish that Rand, Minn, Perrin, Ny. had not been in it.
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Summary: try to start wrapping it up!
Review: This book (like all the others) is nessesary to read if you are hooked on this story. The book though seems to go nowhere along the plotline. Also it seems that Mr. jordan is trying to stretch this story out as far as it can go. It is the best series I've read so far, but if he doesn't start wrapping it up soon I'll begin to lose intrest in it.
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Summary: I'll bet the final book will disappoint...sometime in 2037
Review: For anyone that is still reading because you got hooked on the first five books (which were fairly good), you're probably wondering when something important is going to happen again. I say, stop reading. I won't buy another book in this series. I predict the final book will be a major disappointment. Some of us are still slogging along through the volumes because we're hooked, and hoping for an exciting resolution, and for all the answers to be revealed. I don't think it's going to happen. How could the series possibly get better, when Mr. Jordan has written 3 terribly boring books in a row? Mr. Jordan is just making a career out of this series, and taking us hapless readers on a very bad ride.
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Summary: Poor attempt at continuing a previously excellent series
Review: Do not make the mistake of buying this book. It does nothing to further the storyline in the initial Wheel of Time series, instead, it chooses to create boring, frivolous sub-plots and add even more non-essential characters. The characters you loved in the initial books in the series are ignored, while the story flounders and no progress is made. Mr. Jordan has succeeded in cramming 6 pages of relevant action into a 1,000 page book, hoping that we'll all be foolish enough to buy "just one more" to see how it all ends. Don't do it! It's incredibly sad to have so much potential wasted, but it appears greed has got the best of Mr. Jordan as he hopes this "cash cow" will continue indefinitely.
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Summary: yawn- next please!!!
Review: Robert, Robert, Robert! What are you trying to do to us! We are loyal and consistent, why can't you be? One would think 7 books was more than enough to develop characters and places. Do you want to keep creating a fantastic series for us to continue enjoying or have you just gotten used to royalty cheques we keep contributing to? This is soapie slush, not the classic WoT we are used to. How long before book 9 is released? If it's not soon and with substance you will lose us all. Stop being lazy!
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