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Summary: Absolute and utter crap
Review: Undoubtedly one of the most annoying writers ever. Robert might be a good storyteller - if he didn't drag everything out as much as possible to pull in the dollars - but his writing style is pathetic. He uses the same phrases again and again. How many times have we been told about the 'cool gazes' of aes sedai, or women smoothing their dresses etc. Shut up Jordan, your'e just annoying. The first two books were 5 star material in my opinion but he's run out of gas. I actually found Asmodean an interesting character before he was killed but nearly all the others are infuriating. Leave the series unfinished Robert, and try to salvage some respect.
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Summary: Jordan is loosing it
Review: This book is the worst yet. I unfortunately got hooked on this series long ago and probably will continue to read them. New readers don't start. The plot has not developed since the 3 or 4 th book. Simply The Book SUCKS!
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Summary: OK, but need to regain focus
Review: I am a little disappointed at the way the main plot is being lost in this tangle of smaller, less important "soap-opera" style character plots. Stop telling me how many times Nynavae tugs on her braid, stop telling me how many times Rand throws a temper tantrum, stop telling me about all the arguments between Aes Sedai, Sea Folk, the Wise Ones, and the "Kin", and please please please STOP talking about Rand's lovelife! Just dedicate a chapter in the next book to him getting a three-some, and let's get on with the story! What have the Forsaken been doing/thinking all this time? What is happening with Mat? What is up with this Borderlands invasion? There is simply too much going on in this WoT world to waste words on trvial character descriptions. Please regain a little focus, make this series great again!!
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Summary: Jordan is making his way into the history books
Review: Yes, it took a long time. No I didn't like waiting 2 years. On the other hand, I would much rather wait, and let Jordan take the time he needs to write a solid story, than have him rush through and turn out more pulp. Sure this story moved a little slow in places. So? Jordan is taking his time to give us a world with a level of detail not found in anything save Tolkien's Middle Earth. You can't do that by rushing through it. I, for one, loved this book as I have loved every other WoT book. Hurrah for Jordan, and take as long as you need. If you need to stretch it to 12 or 15 or more books, I will buy every one on the day it is released.
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Summary: Why? Why did this happen?
Review: I scanned through about 40% of the book the first time I read it, skipping the descriptions of local vegetation, Aes Sedai histrionics and utterly redundant character descriptions. Hello? I've read seven of your books; I don't need the 60th analysis of every character's trademark mannerisms and appearance. Along with the obsessive/compulsive need to hyper-describe everything, what happened with: MAT: Duh. Everyone misses him. Hint: try to write more than a few sentences about an extremely popular character. SEANCHAN/COMBAT IN GENERAL: I used to feel like I was in the middle of the action. Now Rand is a senile armchair general (Saidin feels weird? Ah, ignore it! I'm suddenly a complete idiot!) The Seanchan battles were like watching a sterile CNN report. POLITICS: Interesting when coupled with action. Egwene isn't so incredibly compelling a character that you can write 400 pages about her petty insecurities. COMMON SENSE: Morgase somewhere along the line had plastic surgery. Min (apparantly) bashes her head against a wall until her IQ drops 70 points. Perrin becomes the Wolf of Self Esteem Issues. The Forsaken (and Morodin) decide to take a break from terrorizing the world. Rand is utterly unfazed by an assassination attempt. Anyhow, the book sucked. I was more entertained reading the reviews. I'm going to B&N for Book 9 and reading it there. If it's worth my dime, I'll buy it out of principle.
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Summary: Pot-boiler par excellence!
Review: I have been an avid reader of the ongoing Wheel of Time series but this was pap of the worst sort. A more overt exploitation of his frenzied readership could not be imagined. To have a plot hardly progress over 600+ pages is terrible. It appears that Jordan has set himself the task of writing the longest fantasy novel ever and in doing so has sacrificed all narrative integrity. Even as an addict I find myself prepared to walk away though I suspect that if you are considering buying this book you are already in so far it will be almost inevitable that you go on.
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Summary: Path of Daggers was an amazing novel in an amazing series.
Review: Path of Daggers, the 8th book of the Wheel of Time series, lived up to the previos masterpeices in the series and made me crave for more. Although Mat was not really talked about in the book, the return of Logain made me want to laugh with joy. Robert Jordan rules!!
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Summary: In one word, disappointing
Review: The creativity it took to create such a world presented in The Wheel of Time series was amazing. Equally amazing was his ability to take such a wonderful world and make it extremely boring. I was waiting to read about Rand Al'Thor's grooming habits in the following chapters. The only relief I found was the book ended before that happened. It is plain to see that Mr Jordan has lost interest in this series and should have ended it before the Crown of Swords. Most disappointing was to find the powerful Aes Sedai, the ones who could manipulate the course of nations, turned into scheming hens who always get themselves into trouble. The only character with any merit was Cadsuane and she had only a small role in this novel. Overall the book has become too fragmented with too many seperate plots. This leaves little space to develop the characters and the storyline. This book gave me the impression that Robert Jordan was simply drawing out (rather painfully) a novel to earn as much as possible out of a succesful storyline. The only positive comment I can make about the book is that Robert Jordan has a wonderful style of writing that can even make a poor story bearable to read.
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Summary: this fellow needs a good editor
Review: Unfortunately, Path of Daggers is far inferior to the other books of Robert Jordan. While I have great respect for him as an author, I think that this book would have benefited from a serious re-write. It is fractured with very little direction and no conclusion whatsoever. We are given snippets of each character's motivation and experience. But nothing ties them together (at least in this volume) and Jordan doesn't even try to bring the novel to some intermediate conclusion (as he did in No.7). I felt like he had some work in progress (pre-edit) and slapped a name on it and put it out to the public. It's reminiscent of the difficulties Stephen R. Donaldson had in his second trilogy of the IllEarth War. Sometimes more is not better and I think you'll be doing yourself a disservice if you buy this book. Borrow it from a friend or the library. I regret spending the money on it.
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Summary: Not worth the wait
Review: What a disappointment! Robert Jordan seems to have cashed in the fact that readers who have read this far are going to keep reading no matter what. This book is about 570 pages of filler and 20 of set up for the next book. Since you're going to have to wait a couple of years for the next book anyway, why not just wait for the paperback? or better yet, get it from the library.
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