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Summary: It's Great d@mmit and stop complaining about slower plots!
Review: Yes it was slow, but not as slow as ACOS. No it didn't move the plot forward as much as the first five, and wasn't the true masterpiece that the first 5(ESPECIALLY Shadow Rising) was. However, this let me get captivated in the compelling world of the Wheel of Time series and gave me the raw excitement of new events, thus STILL deserving 5 stars as simply being part of the Wheel of Time series. The whole thing's so great when read cover to cover to cover to ...(etc).This book has solidified a theory of mine: RJ is writing on a definite story arc and this one and the 2 before it(to some the "boring" ones, to me the ones merely with a slower plot but still amazing compared to everything else out there) are at the top of the arc. Rand's been barely holding things together by using every bit of his skill, and at the end of this one, everything's as tight-wound as it can be, and for once in these 3 books there are major events(the kind you used to see all over the place in the 1st 5 but lately only end the books) set to happen pretty much as soon as #9 starts. It's like throwing a ball into the air: it slows down at the top before it turns around and speeds downwards. That time has been set up beautifully at the end of PoD, and in PoD the speeding up begins. ACOS was the very top, and the fall begins. Next book it's obvious that everything's gonna snap, as the unraveling begins at the end of PoD. That means that if Tor is smart and keeps him from writing another Fallon book in between(even they benefit as these make infinitely more money) we can get another faster-paced book within a year and a half, and all the impatient people looking for more story will be satisfied. While we're waiting, we can realize that we STILL have a new installment in the Wheel of Time and should be overjoyed and enjoy every wonderful page.
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Summary: Stop complaining!!
Review: What is it with you guys? What do you think, that the series is too long? From what I heard, that is exactly what you think. Well, I REALLY disagree. If you think that the series is to long, than stop reading or buying the book. I like the series, and I hope that it will last untill the 15th book or so. I mean, he isn't even CLOSE to confronting the Dark One. The Aes Sedai hasn't bowed to him yet. So STOP COMPLAINING!!
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Summary: Disgruntled Former Fan. Jordan is steadily going downhill.
Review: I loved the first five books. Almost worthy of Tolkien. Book six was very good, but got a bit convoluted at points. Book seven was a bit worse, I found it drug on at points, and was only saved by a well written last 100 pages or so. The Path of Daggers is the biggest waste of 600 pages I have ever read. At the very least Jordan could have wrapped up a couple of his minor worthless plots. He seems bound and determined to drag this series on until no one cares what the ending is. I can't believe that I waited for two years for this drivel!! NOTHING HAPPENED IN THE BOOK!!! Where the hell was Mat at anyway? Jordan was too busy introducing more crummy little plots by resurrected Forsaken to bother devoting a chapter to one of the main characters. We never even hear what happens with the plots anyway why waste pages on them? If you are a big Wheel of Time fan, buy the book. But be prepared to have second thoughts about buying book nine whenever it comes out.
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Summary: More!More!!MORE!!!
Review: I have to say that this book left me wanting yes more. I loved all of his stuff from the beginning up till here but not only did this book no advance the plot each character got only about four or five chapters. It was still reasonably well written for a fantasy novel but he chose to give Elaida a minor subcharacter more space than he did Mat who didn't even appear in this book. Rand and Perrin have both sat out a book but still it was disapointing. Really my biggest problem is that he took maybe two years to write it and came up with about 600 pages. He has spent less time on other books and come up with more space. Also it didn't seem to end, when I finished I thought that maybe I had a defective copy. I truly hope that in the future Mr. Jordan ( if that's his real name ) will improve and lenghten his novels.
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Summary: I REALLY DON'T SEE WHAT EVERYONE'S PROBLEM IS
Review: In a series of this magnitude, there has to be an upside as well as a downside. I think that RJ's given us a very good setup of what to expect in book #9. For all you losers who think that RJ should end the series ASAP, you shouldn't complaining anything about series quality. For me, I want a really good story and I don't want it ruined by people who think that the series should have ended already. If you want a really crappy story, then fine. Think whatever you want. I want the quality and I'll happily take anything comes my way.
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Summary: more action, less story
Review: For some unfathomable reason, I rushed to read this book, knowing full well that it will be 1-2 years before the next one appears. There were some interesting developments in PoD, but it seems that each passing book covers less time and goes into more mind-numbing detail. The personalities of many characters continue to regress (how many pages are wasted talking about how everyone is 'besotted with' or 'mooning over' each other? you'd think that people might concentrate a bit with the end of the world approaching), and users of the Power aren't using their newfound knowledge very well (why spend 15 days travelling to Caemlyn when you can Travel? jump through the damn whole and stop bitching!). Does Cadsuane want the world to end before she teaches Rand his lesson? Is it really possible to kill anyone? It seems like there are more Forsaken now than we started with. I appreciate the level of detail that Jordan puts in each book, especially in the background characters, but it has gotten to the point where it detracts from the story. I agree with many of the reviewers that this series has become too much like a soap opera. I want to see it through to the end, but I can't see that happening in less than 4 or 5 books at the current rate. It will probably reach the point that one book discusses the events of a single day. My advice is to stay clear of these books for another 20 years so that you can actually read them from start to finish.
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Summary: Jordan is l33t
Review: There's no other way to put it. Robert Jordan is the master, he's creative, inventive (my god, the part where Elayne gets shielded and an a-bomb goes off, that was -- rapture) very few authors can spell-bind me like Jordan can, and he's done it again. While I can't really put this book on level with The Shadow Rising (my fav), it is certainly well above LoC and aCoS, the best time I've had in a long time. RJ can do it like no-one else, (and although Terry Goodkind tries as hard as he can to knock him off, he can't compare)
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Summary: This book is complex only for the sake of complexity.
Review: Mr. Jordan seems compelled to weave a plot as complex as the magic weaved by his characters. I can accept complexity if it leads somewhere. Terry Goodkind is a very complex storyteller, but as his tale goes along the reader starts to understand some of the reasons behind the complexity. This is not so with Mr. Jordan. In Eddings work, we come to understand the nature of the two forces that confront each other for control of the destiny of the universe. After eight (8) books we still know nothing of the Dark One or of the great battle that is to come. It almost seems that Mr. Jordan has become so in love with this work that he has no wish to bring it to an end. The early volumes had a richness about them as we learned of Rand, Mat, and Perrin and their roles as reincarnated men of destiny. Now, all that we have is a bunch of loose ends that must be tied up to bring us to any meaningful resolution. This volume takes us no closer to the climax than we were two (2) volumes ago. Indeed, we learn nothing more about the characters and their powers or as I said earlier, about how the Dark One will be represented at the final battle. Mr. Jordan needs to go back and read his earlier volumes and find the story that he has left behind. That is unless, the issue here is making money and not storytelling. The longer this goes on the more it will appear that the former is true. This volume can be skipped without doing any harm to the story line, and that is sad.
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Summary: If #1 was this poor, I would not have continued.
Review: The slide into irrelavance continues. I had noticed that the two previous entries into the Wheel of Time tended to drag out the minutia and compact the plot developments. The Path of Daggers continues the trend. Out of 591 pages, 25 are relevant to a few plotlines. The balance is annoying fluff. I am finished with this series and this author. Congratulations TOR and Mr. Jordan on publishing a really big paperweight.
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Summary: Don't waste your money- check it out from the library.
Review: After waiting for 2 1/2 years for this book, I was horribly disappointed. Nothing happens. 591 pages, and it's all prologue for book 9. (Or, the way the series is going, book 12, perhaps.) I'll be checking out the next book from the library before buying it.
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