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Summary: REAL AVERAGE RATING
Review: WAIT!!!The rating for this book is all wrong since 200 fools gave it 5 stars before the book was even released. The real rating is about 2 stars and only because of his previous great work. Buy this book used (mine is available for $5) but don't support this terrible turn of the series!!!
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Summary: Not worth the wait or the money
Review: Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series begins wonderfully with the same feeling of legend that one gets from reading Tolkien or watching Star Wars. The eight book in this series however, only continues a downhill trend that began after book four. Jordan's caracters have become increasingly and frustratingly flat and undynamic. Rand especially has gone from a confused but very human young man on an adventure to a bitter and completely static caracter. And the same holds true for the rest of the cast. Perrin and Mat have become shockingly immature in their inability to recognize or feel adult emotions. And the women have all become singleminded in their respective tasks. What Jordan needs to do to revive this epic is to show us some kindness, bravery, and love in his angry, duty bound plot, and to start answering the myriad of questions that have been raised and left hanging.
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Summary: I only bought it because I've got the first seven
Review: What in the world of time has happened? Most of the time I'll read a book in a couple days (most of the first seven books I read in one or two sittings), but I've been struggling through this one for almost a week and I'm only halfway through. Why, may I ask, do we have to wade through 240 some odd pages of no movement whatsoever in the plot until we finally get to see Rand? And where is a little action? Dialogue? Hopping around to see what ALL the characters are doing? I have to say that if the next book (which I guess we'll see sometime next century) is like this one, I may have to wait until it goes on the clearance rack before I buy it. Unfortunately, I'm hooked, and this series will eternally have space on my bookshelf. I'm disappointed, but I shall persevere!
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Summary: Wheel of Time takes a vacation
Review: First off, I have absolutely loved the first seven book of WOT. Secondly, Book Eight is a disgrace to the previous seven. The eternal struggle between good and evil seems to be on vacation. The plot lines have hardly been advanced and the climatic scences that have closed the previuos books was sorely missing. Mat is competely missing from this book, which is a shame. It felt like this book was meant as a placeholder, setting up all of the storylines to continue in book nine. I felt robbed that I waited 2.5 years for this. I am hoping that Book 9 picks up where book seven left off. For the first time in this series, I won't re-read this book.
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Summary: IS THIS A JOKE?
Review: Ok, I cannot fault the style or the storytelling ability of Mr. Jordon. He is an incredible writer who has captured my imagingation. I understand that you cannot just throw together a series or single book of this magnitude overnight. He asked us to wait. We did. He promised us this would be his best book yet. In terms of plot line character development and substance he did not produce. I am not asking for any cuts. I have waited two years to have a chance to read this. What I would like is some sort of forward movement. Why did he not just let us wait another 6 months and finish this book. After 583 pages, I have learned nothing. I can only hope this means that book 9 will soon follow. I know the Publisher needs to make thier profits, but how will they if the audience is alienated. I've come to far to stop now but there is no way I would reccomend that any of my friends begin this until there is some hope that it may progress. Mr. Jordan, please dont make the same mistake that W.E. B. Griffen did with his Corps series. I will never read another of his books. I have enjoyed yours too much to feel that you have sold out.
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Summary: Path of Daggers-Two years in the making?
Review: As a dedicated WoT fan, you obviously have to read this book. If you're thinking about testing the WoT water, this is not the book to do it with. The first time I read Jordan was the first book of the series. There were already five books out so I plowed my way through, with an insatiable desire to find out what happens next. And then the writting started to focus on even more detail. I'm a fan of detail, just not to the extent Jordan reaches in Path of Daggers. That said, as far as seeing an end to this series, I don't think that it will end, and I'm suprised that anyone is speculating a final book number, "there are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the wheel of time..." in fact I think that Path of Daggers solidifies this idea, and Robert Jordan must have a little chuckle whenever someone inquires about it. After waiting two years for the continuation of the story, I'm dissapointed that this "chapter" is little more than a day in the life of the characters, that at the geatest of stretches shouldn't have taken two years to create. With no mention of the things that have intrigued readers like me all along, like the prophecies of the dragon, the three way struggle over Rand, etc., I was left wondering what the point of this book was. Bottom line is this, I fell in love with this series because I could draw a direct correlation of my own childhoood dungeons and dragons fantasies with tales that Jordan spun, and now it's focus is more about the politics, and let's face it, politics are not great food for the imagination.
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Summary: I'll wait on book Nine
Review: In preparation for this book I re-read the last two books in the series. But after reading a majority of the reviews here, I'll simply wait on Book 9 before I invest another dime to this series. I've had the feeling for a long time that Mr. Jordan was stretching this out. "The series of a liftime" and all that stuff. Authors must remember that the readers aren't stupid and we can smell somone stringing out a series a mile away.
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Summary: Should be called: Path to nowhere.
Review: Let me start off by saying, I have read this series through twice and out of all the authors I read religiously: Jordan is the best BUT! Here we go: 1. I am sick and tired of everyone being tougher and more cruel and deceitful than the next person. ex: Sorilea is the toughest ever, nobody could come near being as tough.... Cadsuane (i hate this character) is the toughest, nobody comes near being as tough as she is.... Alise is the toughest, nobody comes near.. get my point? 2. Where is Mat? The only character who doesnt have 500 clones of himself walking around the weave. 3. Why is Rand being a punk? I know I know, he has to keep Cadsuane on his good side or whatever.. but he should shield her from the weave and bend her over his knee and wear her rear out... then send her bawling to Sorilea. I personally would introduce her to balefire. All in all this book is one supreme 2 year awaited dissapointment. I will of course read book nine.. but I am will be surprised if nine sells what 8 did. If anyone has any comments feel free to e-mail me.
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Summary: Departure into the realm of infinite drivel
Review: I once believed WoT was THE best fantasy series ever written. You actually became a part of the world that RJ created. However, with this book and the last, it has become nothing but a backwash of purple prose and mindless drivel. No plot movement(well, maybe at a SLOW snail's pace), no excitement, no AURA. That seems to be what's missing, the need to read further to see what happens to the characters we came to care about. The mystery and enchantment is gone, replaced instead by endless descriptions and repetitions of plot lines and character traits we have heard so often before. Please RJ, return this series to the form that made it impossible to put down. Resurrect the mystery and the clearly defined points of good and evil rushing toward the ultimate climax. You've developed the characters enough, now it's time for the points to meet and be resolved. I'll hang in there for book 9 but please don't disappoint again!
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Summary: author must have taken a vacation on book 8
Review: I am a big fan of The Wheel of Time Series. But, was very disappointed with The Path of Daggers. All of the planning in the 7 previous volumes have gone to waste in volume 8. It seems Robert Jordan took a vacation while writing book 8. Hey Robert: Please read your first 7 books of the series and let's get back to the good stuff!!!!
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