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Summary: No not as good as good as some of the others but...
Review: Interesting in its own way i think Jordan kind of "hurried up" this book. Not as good as Eye of the World, or Dragon Reborn, but there are some interesting new twists. The Seanchan invasion is quite exciting and some new briefings about Calandor. Egwene takes a firmer grip on her role as Amrylin, and plenty of foreshadowing keeps you earrning for Winter's Heart to come! Although i must admit i did not like the fact that Jordan did not say a word about Matrim Cauthon, and spent less detail on nynaeve, Elaine, and the Bowl of Winds, it certainly was a good book, doing more than hinting on wonderful things to come!
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Summary: It is like watching the x-files...
Review: I guess we can expect Robert Jordan to live forever because it doesn't look like he is planning on resolving any plotlines any time soon. Its like watching the X-files, "is the Smoking man his father?" "Are Rand and Elayne cousins?" "What the hell happened to Kryzeck?" "Haven't heard from Mat in a while"I think Jordan is a great story teller, his WoT series is one of the best. This book wont disappoint but Jordan opens up plot twists twice as fast as he concludes them. There is no closure for anything going on. I think that a great series has to grow and for that to happen the past must be concluded (although it can come back to bite you in the rear). You cant treat a series like a soap opera where you just move along and expect the readers not to care what happened to this person. Just because a plot line hasn't been mentioned in 3 books doesnt mean it isn't there in the readers mind waiting for something that says "No I haven't forgotten about that, it is still important to the plot."
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Summary: No end in sight...
Review: Well, I made it. Then again, maybe not. Eight books and thousands of pages after "The Eye of the World," I'm through all of the currently existing prose that makes up Robert Jordan's megasaga "The Wheel of Time," and presumably, if you are reading this review, you are considering reaching this pinnacle yourself. Should you bother? "The Wheel of Time" began as a second-rate Tolkien pastiche, and its first three volumes were formulaic and contrived. Beginning with Book 4, "The Shadow Rising," however, Jordan began to take fuller advantage of the rich potential of the fantasyland he had invented, as well as of the bygone "Age of Legends" that underlies it. His plots seemed less scripted and more natural, and his characters actually seemed to evolve a bit from their beginnings as cardboard cut-outs. Starting with Book 6, "Lord of Chaos," however, Jordan began to get bogged down in variations of the same basic plot points: Rand Al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, flits about the various kingdoms he has conquered to no real end, the female characters squabble and bicker, the bad guys scheme and always seem to have the upper hand, even after they die (especially after the Dark One hits the "reset" button and resurrects them), armies move hither and thither and people die. There is certainly more to things than this tongue-in-cheek description allows, but really, that's the run of it. "Path of Daggers" is more of the same. For those who have followed the story to this point, events do occur, and are duly described, and the made-up history of this fantasyland moves ploddingly forward. Anyone not familiar with the first seven volumes, however, will be hopelessly lost--Jordan has finally given up his feeble attempts at providing capsule summaries of characters and events to make things marginally decodable for the uninitiated. It is at this point, of course, that the dedicated reader might finally lose all patience with Jordan's severe case of literary elephantiasis; it is not difficult to imagine how the story to this point could have been handled with considerably less verbiage. Just so, also, with this review. So, the recommendations: if you haven't read the other books in this series, don't bother with this. If you have, now is a good time to determine if you wish to continue or not, since there is no indication that the frustrations of reading this series will ever be alleviated. Regardless, all those who are solely impressed with scale should be reminded that the rewards of fiction, even of epic fantasy, are to be found in other details, and in these Jordan provides less of an obvious example.
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Summary: Admittedly a little slow, but what a builder!
Review: So many people are saying the story line for the Wheel of Time series is old, slow, and/or plain dead. I must say I disagree. I started reading the series in 1997 or 1996, back when book 5(?) was the most recent book. I must say I'm completely hooked. Yes, Path of Daggers was a little slow, and yes it lacked a huge battle as I was hoping for. But considering that each of the books has tied into the past and into the future, this books still leaves drooling in anticipation of what is to come! The army has reached Tar Valon! Even if they don't begin the battle in book 9, there will undoubtedly be some pre-fight action between the army and the Aes Sedi that are left in the white tower. The days of the red sisters are numbered! And the dark one continues to loosen his bonds that keep him imprisoned, but when he finally ecapes, will any of his trusted Forsaken be around to help him? I seriously doubt it. There were 12 origonally. Rand has killed at least 4, and 2 others are missing, and Moraine killed Lanfear. That leaves 5 at most. Over all, I must say this. The series is long, and at times tedious, but if you get involved in the story, you will be hooked!
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Summary: Jordan must be dead
Review: I have finally figured it out. Jordan died after Fires of Heaven. Yep. That has to be it. He died and Tor got Goodkind, Rawn or some other plodding fantasy writer to finish up the series. Only it was such a cash cow that they won't finish it. It will just go on and on and on until there are no more trees left on the planet. Or maybe a computer is writing it. You know, one programmed to write sentences like "Rand would know what to do, he understands women." or "Egwene smoothed her skirt." or "Elayne hugged Avendha and realized that she loved her like a sister." Or endless descriptions of the weather and where the characters slept and what they ate and Nynaeve's PMS. But Jordan is dead. Has to be. Hey -- the best thing about the last couple of books are the reviews on Amazon. They are GREAT. Witty, fun, succinct, clever. Everything the series is not. Worth reading. 5 stars for the reviews.
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Summary: Was this a book?
Review: I don't know what this was. I suspect it was a couple of months mortgage payment for Jordan or Oliver or what ever his name is. When an author treats his audience with such contempt it means something: he hates his characters (can't say that I blame him at this point); he is sick of the series (so put a bullet in it, already) or he's been through an ugly divorce and is trying to eek out some alimony. Hmmm. Maybe all three? I see Winter's Heart is already on Amazon's best seller list. There IS one born every minute! Me -- I'm waiting for the reviews and the paperback edition. After slogging through Path of Daggers and Crown of Swords I'm not going to fall for a fool's gambit again. I notice Jordan has endorsed George RR Martin's books. Maybe he could ask for some pointers.
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Summary: Another filler book
Review: It seems that this most recent installment of the Wheel of Time lacks the zeal of the earlier books. The Path of Daggers feels like a filler book, like Mr. Jordan used the entire book to set up his next. If this is true then the next book will be outstanding. One must not, however, pass up this book becuase it is still well written, just an ending would be nice soon.
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Summary: it's all about the benjamins
Review: like many an artist before him, it seems jordan has decided to start doing it just for the money. i remember when i first started reading this series in march of 2000. i used to see the books all the time, and i remember thinking "this guy has a lot of books set in the same world. he must follow different generations of characters throughout the series. cool!" so, i read the 1st one, thinking that rand et al's adventures would be wrapped up by book 4, then we'd get a new cast of characters in the same milieu by book 5. oh, how wrong i was! some authors i read in high school made me think they subscribed to the idea "why say in 10 words what you can say in 1000?" jordan seems to now be thinking "why say in three books what you can say in 12?" don't get me wrong: this kind of thing works in comic books. but i don't want a comic book about randland; i want well-paced novels. randland is becoming a cartoon. the number of characters on the "Cannot Die" list just keeps growing. why don't rand and company just walk around in their underwear and use toothpicks as weapons? nothing and no one can kill them. and they can receive no wound that is not Significant and Prophesied. i never worry that they might actually be killed, or have changes of heart, or be seriously incapacitated. this makes for boring, predictable reading. the only fun is in guessing which minor character is going to have to die to remind us that it is a dangerous and evil enemy that rand and company face. this, too, gets old pretty quickly. i'd give this book 0 stars if i could. but, of course, i'm going to by winterheart, just like everyone else. but i'll be buying it b/c i believe in giving people 2nd (or, more accurately, 10th) chances.
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Summary: Finish the story already!!!
Review: The book was ok, the overall series is great, but hey, this has been dragging on for long enough. At this point it seems like Jordan is prolonging things just to sell more books and it is getting quite frustrating. 8 books and more than 5000 pages is enough......
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Summary: Over 1800 reviews
Review: The very fact that this book recieved over 1800 review is something, sure there are people who will hate the book and/or series, but if over 1800 people took the time to write a review, it proves jordan has created something quite spectacular in the WOT series. Dont buy this series if you're not willing to read lots of long books, or if you cant sit out some of the slow parts and enjoy the complex storyline. When i watched star wars, i hated empire strikes back, but i saw it anyway because i wanted to know the background for the next(and much better in my opinion) movie. If you cant do that, dont buy any WOT books
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