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Summary: This was a complete waste of time! A mercenary exercise
Review: I got nothing out of this book at all. Has Jordan lost the plot? Did he write this get-nowhere tome just as a money grabbing exercise? I think he should get a move on with the narrative, and stop playing with us. A very disappointing book.
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Summary: Please put this out of it's misery!
Review: I got hooked early, reading books two and three literally inone sitting. Jordan kept me riveted. Five years later, I am sop***** at this guy I can't stand it. He has ruined a really great series. Fantasy fiction is junk food. It should be quick and enjoyable. This book is torture. I've been waiting on each book, until the last two. I couldn't even finish this one. If you are thinking about starting this series... DON"T!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Great books as always, but a little slow and little to read
Review: As always Robert Jordan delivers a great story line on the continuing saga of Rand al'Thor's fight against the Lord of the Dark. This book contains fewer pages and a larger font than all the other books. Ih he slowng down or what? I think he is slowly leading us into a major battle by building up anxiety and tension over what is going to happend next. The actually plot of the story is thin. There is not much action wise. Rand's army going insane, Elayne working on her quest, Forsake meddling, etc.. None of the hard and heavy action. Overall I like it for what it contains, but not the length and slowness.
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Summary: slow - a Jordan letdown
Review: Rand Al'Thor makes first apperance at books 1/2 point. Little or no new ground is covered. More of the same. 2 stars based on prior books.
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Summary: R.J.,GET ON WITH IT !
Review: This is without a doubt the low point for this series.I understand the desire to cash in on a good thing but to be this blatant about it is an insult to the reader.What makes it worse is the unbelievably long wait we had to suffer through and this is what we get?!?! The pace of the series has been slowing progressively since the first few books and with POD it comes to a virtual halt. Plot development was almost non-existent,rather the story meanders about and like the characters ends up getting nowhere.
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Summary: Send a message to TOR!
Review: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! I really like Robert Jordan's writings and I suppose I will convince myself to buy the next installment of this series. This book is so bad though, that the only explanation I can come up with is the greed of the editors and publishers to make money on this otherwise phenomenal fiction. Tell all your friends not to buy this or the paperback version, publish your reviews on all the bulletin boards on the subject you can find and perhaps the people at TOR will get message!
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Summary: Horrible
Review: I loved the first couple of books in the ETW series. However, the series have been in serious decline lately. There is no plot. My heart does not even waver as I read. Why should it? No one ever dies. What suspense is there? I bought the last two books just to "see what would happen". I will not do so with the 9th. This series shouldn't ended long ago.
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Summary: I, as I always do, agree with the minority.
Review: I think that within the 10-20 reviews that bash PoG, a few positive comments should be interspersed. Since no one else has done this recently, the responsibility falls to me. #1- Granted, this book is often tedious and perhaps a little overly concentrated on mannerisms. However, if you have ever read Terry Brooks, you know what it is like to have a story with characters that we can not make a personal connection to. I am going on a limb here, but: I do care how many times certain characters pull their braid. It gives one a growing sense that we know the characters intimately. Along this line, RJ is much like David Eddings. Also, if the entire book was nothing more than a constant battle, than everyone would probably complain about that. #2- Jordan is attempting something most other fantasy authors have not. He is putting realism into fantasy. Contradiction- perhaps- but true none-the-less. He does so by painstakingly exporing each character and allowing them to react as real humans would rather than the fake heroic- "I must go save the world" reaction. Even RJ loses that on occasion, but at least he tries. #3- Finally, stop complaining about the time it takes for the book to come out. Would you prefer a botched job or a masterpiece. The cliche "Genius is only 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" is entirely true. You have to work to produce a thousand pages worth of good fantasy. You have to plan, write, and rewrite. Live with it. Or give writing a shot yourself and see how well you do. As a single book, only so-so. As a part of a whole, miraculous.
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Summary: much ado about nothing
Review: Jordan's epic saga has ground to a halt. This installment featured the character development of bit players to the exclusion of everything else - certainly to the exclusion of moving the plot along. Instead of focussing on the protagonists we've come to know from previous books, we got page after page of meaningless characters we'll forget about tomorrow. To make matters worse, the dead aren't really dead. In an attempt to bring back some of the Forsaken Rand killed off in the earlier books, the Dark One is now reanimating them and giving them different names. Sheesh. What's next? Moiranne rises from the grave in book 29, titled "I doubt we'll see the end of this series in your lifetime." Seriously, Jordan risks the entire series by meandering about aimlessly. And, at $28 for the hardcover, I think I'll wait for the next one in paperback. A reader questioning the value of what he reads is not a good sign.
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Summary: A Path of Daggers is an incredible fantasy experience.
Review: Robert Jordan is by far the most brilliant writer in the fantasy world and is undoubtedly the best writer who's works I have been privlaged enough to read. I have been reading fantasy books for years. Purchasing every remotely good book I have been able to find. But of all those wonderful works, The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan is the most complex, in depth, sample of fantasy literature that i have ever read. Several of the books I have read the very same day I bought them. There have been recent accusations and complaints that A Path of Daggers is not as intriguing as the past books of the series, but upon reading the book myself, I find the rumors to be totally false. Book 8 pulls you back into Jordan's remarkable world of the Wheel of Time, right where book 7 left off. This book will rightly take its place in Jordan's remarkable list of works. Which one day, will become classics.
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