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Summary: Can't wait for book nine!
Review: I love this series! It took more than a week to read! Unfortunately I've mostly forgot exactly what happened so I think I'll have to read the latest two or three when book nine comes out. Since I read a lot if I wait eagerly for the next book it means I liked the series.This series is an epic of epic proportions!
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Summary: Perhaps stepping on Daggers would keep the reader awake
Review: Robert Jordan devised a brilliant, although not too original idea for what would turn out to be perhaps the greatest fantsay series of the decade some ten years ago. If only he had the innate gift of knowing when to stop. Book 8, Path of Daggers, should never have been. I think he should have wrapped this whole sucker up in six books or so. At the present rate of his last three books, I'd say we have at least eight more to go through.The last 170 pages of this book offer considerably more action than the first 420, which read like a fantasy version of 'Little Women'. You heard that correctly, 'Little Women'. If you are concerned about learning inside dish on how Rand kisses or what proper clothes to wear when entertaining Aes Sedai, then maybe you'd like that portion of the book. Thoughts of giggling girls in braces, weaving spells to make Jiffy Pop rambled through my head during this part of the book. I thought I was reading a fantasy version of an Aes Sedai slumber party. Mr. Jordan, with all due respect, your books are only good when the bad guys are really bad and Rand is kicking ***. There was little to no bad guy action, only limited doses of Rand smiting Senchean, and very little on darkfriends. Then there is poor Mat, left alone somewhere, perhaps never to be heard from again. But boy do we know what Aviendha looks for in a dress nowadays. I have personally invested too much of myself, too much time, and too much money in this series to give up on it now, however... One more book like this and I will lose any interest in seeing how it finishes because I would be able to pick it up three or four boks down the line with nothing happening in between because nothing really happened in this one.
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Summary: Not the best of the series. Drawn out & confusing.
Review: I have really enjoyed this series, but this book was disappointing. Where was Mat? Why after all this time, hasn't something definitive happened? I am ready for the conclusion of this series and thenon to the next. Too much tiny detail and not enough real action. Rand is too powerful to stumble around for all these thousands of pages.
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Summary: Not that bad
Review: Let's face it. When there are 8 books in a series, it may have it's ups and downs. Although the eighth installment may be a "down", the series has been really great, and lets hope the next book will be really cool!
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Summary: where the heck was mat!?!?!
Review: This book was ok, but it mad one mistake: no mat. Mat is the best character in this series by FAR and he got left out :( Now I supose the next book will have a lot of him when he heads over to the land of the seanchan but I was still a little annoyed of this books lack of him.
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Summary: A faster read for me than others
Review: I agree with much of the criticism running throughout these reviews. In particular, I find much of the backgrounding to be both excessive and repetitive. (How does knowing the weave, embroidery and style of every minor character's outfit move the plot forward? Also, I think I have figured out that the Aiel wear cadin'sor and have shoufa draped around their necks.) Additionally, I have such a hard time keeping track of all the lackeys around Rand that I sometimes give up trying. Finally, I find the pull of the series weakening when the characters all seem to possess unimaginable powers. (I still like Mat though - Let's get him back to center stage!) Nevertheless, I certainly appreciate the sheer breadth of this story and enjoy each new twist in the plot. Waiting for #9.
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Summary: What this series really needs...
Review: This series is getting too long. Not that that is a bad thing, it just takes the first hundred pages to remember what is going on. What this book needs is a 10 to 20 page summary of the previous books with a majority devoted to the most recent book. I had no idea what was going on when I started this one. And there's no way in Hell I'm going to reread the series to remember what's happening. Not to mention the horrible turnaround time for each new book... This series started in 1991(?); that's one book a year and they seem to be slowing down. Let's just hope this series ends before the starwars saga ends...
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Summary: Better than I remember, fixes some problems
Review: I read each book as it came out originally, so in between each new book I'd forget what'd happened in the last book (and more before that), and when I first read PoD, it really seemed to drag. But, having recently reread all the books together, PoD fixes a number of the problems I was having up until the seventh book, like him apparently treating each book like it was a self-contained, stand-alone novel, so he had to spend time to explain about things in each book that you already knew from earlier books, so I'd skip paragraphs of old material that had been in all the earlier books too. And this one ended with a number of story lines opening up at the end, instead of a battle, and everything tied up, like the first seven, which also released this book from the stand-alone feeling. I think this is all much to the better. Still, it covers little time, and he definitely need s to wrap it up in ten books.
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Summary: Book 2 Stars, Series 5 Stars
Review: While I'm a fan of the WoF, upon picking up "the path" I found myself extremely disappointed, the book fails to live up to Jordan's previous work. Furthermore it's only about 1/4 the size once you adjust the margins and font size. Several of the main plot lines simply diappear, Mat. After "the crown" started picking up the action that was dropped in "the fires" I thought maybe the series was going somewhere again, however this book was an incredible let down. Jordan fails to continue the minor plot twists that you would find in the first couple books and now create further twists in the later books. i.e. Paitr, prophetic images, and the dramatic irony that keeps myself and many other fans captivated.
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Summary: Just like the Cheerios guy
Review: Jordan is running...out....of.... steam. I was a big fan of the series until the last couple of books. I have put down this book 4 times to read other, better books. I am 400 pages in and not a darn thing has happened.
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