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Summary: This book stunk.
Review: Robert Jordan has taken science fiction readers on an incredible journey with the wheel of time series. Unfortunately, this last book is a slap in the face to any avid reader of TWOT. Some guidelines that RJ needs to follow next time: 1) never let Elayne, Aviendah, Egwene, et al, take up more space than Rand, Mat and Perrin. The others characters are important and interesting, but should be a filler between the big three's adventures. 2) Never, ever, under any circumstances, leave the best character completely out of the book. Where the hell was Mat? When the hell is he going to meet the Daughter of the Nine Moons? 3) Either make Rand go completely insane and resolve it, or forget about it altogether. This wondering whether or not he is going to lose it is much worse than actually seeing what happens if he does. 4) Please stop Nynaeve from pulling her braid at everybody. I thought she was going to turn into a bad ass after the seventh book, but she regressed into a quibling twelve year old again. 5) Get Elyas Machera more into the thick of things. 6) Lastly, don't end a 700 page book with immediate events unanswered. If I've taken the time to slog through 600 pages of dialogue between Egwene and Siuan, give me something in return, like rand turning someone inside out or Perrin kicking ass. With all that said, don't let my criticisms throw you off. I am still a fanatic about this series, but I was really disappointed about waiting two years for virtually nothing. However, I have begun the wait for another two years. Hopefully there will be something at the end this time.
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Summary: Slow and empty
Review: Dear Mr. Jordan, if you are reading this, please don't get insulted, but this is how I feel. I didn't give it 1 star, just because I have read all WoT books and I know you can write and I wanted to encourage you to finally do a good job ( It used to be great, but after last 2 books I am not sure you can do any better than good).It took RJ 2 years to write 500+ pages. It is about 1 page per day (not counting weekends, sick leave, long vacation, family crises, and those days when author simply has a lack of inspiration). It would have been OK if the final product wasn't so empty. I guess RJ wants to write as many books possible just for money. I would gladly pay 20 or 30 % more for a book and get some good stuff like the first 4 or 5 books. If you have never read any of WoT books it is a bad time to start now. You get hooked by the first few books and have to keep on buying some really boring stuff later.
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Summary: Grave Disappointment!
Review: Boring Book. Not at all Jordan's typical style. No sarcastic humor, no exciting parts, no intrigue worth mentioning. Don't bother buying this book and just wait for the 9th one to come out, you wouldn't have missed anything but the pain of loosing interest in this author.
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Summary: Just be patient guys....
Review: I think a lot of people are forgetting that Jordan is writing an Epic Fantasy. Before you can get to any fast moving plot, you need basic character development. Hence, this book was primarily exposition and background for the next three. I am very confident that the seeds he plants in this book will make the rest of the series live up to the first group.
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Summary: Author and editors have no respect for readers.
Review: No imagination. No action. No depth. Poorly chosen conflicts. Narcoleptic sub-plots of evil minor characters, that will be deleted, along with collateral damage from the friendly fire of Jordan's word-processor, later on. No delicious anticipation of meaningful chemistry with the truly nasty. After thousands of pages we have ancephalic stick figures runnning a great confrontation with evil like flat ink stains on paper. Is this all Jordan can come up with in better than 2 years? In his once magical world, passion and fear and honor no longer feed the action and dialog. Why didn't someone at the publishing house ask him why he wrote this insipid book? He will be booed on the street for this. It is a slap in the face of buyers.
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Summary: Details, Details, Details...
Review: No, I didn't read all 565 previous reviews, but it seems most people either loved or hated this book. True, this book leaves little or nothing resolved; true, most of the time is spent (as in previous books) with the laying of additional groundwork. While this has seemed to cause a plethora of complaints, I submit that this is the very essence of what Robert Jordan and WoT is all about. It is the exquisite detail, the once seemingly insignificant references brought to fruition over volumes, the continued character development and the intricate plot weaving that make this book, and indeed the entire series, worth my time and money. All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but will have to read it (and a couple of others) again before I can appreciate all the nuances. Things I liked: --Someone may finally get Rand to grow up and deal (He reminds me a little of Thomas Covenant...), and these two can do it if anyone can... --Perrin is already growing up --Machera is back --Herid Fel may still yield something useful --Davram Bashere and Gareth Bryne --Moridin Things I disliked --No Mat (I'm sure that will change) --Passing references only to Mordeth I'm sure there are many others, but wouldn't want to give too much away. All in all a great book, if only in that it added details. Any reader must understand that WoT encompasses a vast world, and it seems that Robert Jordan is doing his best to do it justice. So what if he makes a little money in the process...
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Summary: Extremely negative
Review: It's hardly a big surprise to me the A PATH OF DAGGERS turned out the way it did. It is formulaic: he obviously had a little check list and sat there saying "OKay, I just finished a little bit about the bowl, let's mention Mat and then proceed to Moridin, just so everyone remembers there are bad guys in the book." Virtually everything in this book went as I expected (Hell, if #9 is goin to end up like #8, I might as well write my own version). I did read it all the way through, hoping for some real excitement, but I was severly let down. Jordan manages to contradict himself on multiple points in the story; if anything the plot slipped backwards instead of stridding forwards. I would never dare to put Jordan on a par with Tolkien (Tolkien wrote a better story with more believable characters in 4 books), but I will continue to read his works. The main problem with Jordan's recent work is that he is now popular. He has a vocal audience he feels he must cater to. Personally I'd rather wait 3 or 4 years and read a well written 700 page book then to wait 2 years and get that waste of a tree that was book #8.
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Summary: good book well worth reading if you are reading the series
Review: I liked the book alot even though I did not think it was quite up to the same quality as some off the others in the series. Rand seems to become more of a carboard character and less of the tragic character masterpiece he was. I think Jordan is beginning to struggle with the series, I waited for this book for more than a year and am somewhat dissapointed. (I bought it in hard back)
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Summary: It was a good setup book but needed a little more action
Review: There was only one part of the book where anything really got done and that was the battle with the Seanchan!!!! This book engrossed me just as all of the others in this great series did but when i was finished i had actually thought that i missed some chapters! I was at the end of the book and i felt that nothing had happened! Now im not saying the book was not worth buying because i enjoyed it and also understand that RJ had to set more things up so that in the next couple books(hopefully) things will begin to happen at a fast pace....but it really would have been nice to have been given a little more to hold our appetite over until the next book.....I truly am of two minds of whether i would like to see this series end...on one hand i would really like to see what happens to the characters but on another the expectation is half of the fun.....I truly hope that RJ ends this series but maybe writes another couple to follow up and not just let all of these great characters whom we have grown to love (and some to love to hate).....
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Summary: The Path of Laggers - Jordan's latest book lags behind
Review: I give credit to Jordan for making a something out of nothing. The content of The Path of Daggers should have been,could have been, written in 100 pages, let alone 600. Throw in his short novel in Legend's, and this book should have approached the length of a Horse Clan's, Gor, or Tarzan novel(I hope the WoT stops before volume #20). However, Jordan somehow draws you into the book and the 600 pages seem like 100. The WoT is a great story, wrtten by a great writer, but it has dragged out over too many years and too many volumes that advance the plot very little. If any readers are thinking of taking up the Wheel of Time series, I suggest waiting until it is finished(sometime after the year 2000), the waiting game is the worst part of reading any series, and this one is rediculous.
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