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Summary: Mo Money, Mo Problems
Review: Mr. Jordan had decided with his latest two books to drag out the story, create new characters, make the old characters do stupid things to make you want to hate them, just so he can generate more income for himself. Does it take over 100 pages for two people to ride a stupid horse to a farm so that they can use the Bowl? Come on, they're on a stupid horse, I can get there faster if I was walking! I really hope that Jordan can tie up this series in the next installment! I don't want to waste my money on another slow and meaningless book. Did anything significant happen in this book...yeah Mr. Jordan made mo money and he gave his fans mo problems.
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Summary: Robert Jordan sets the foundation of the end !
Review: I`m pround to say that I`ve read all eight books that have been printed in this captivating series, and have come to the conclusion that Robert Jordan is one of the best fantasy litterature writers I`ve ever read. The way he captures the reader and entraps him in a world gone crazy is to say at least stunning. Many claim that his eight installment to The Wheel of Time series looses some of the previous books' pace, and I must agree. But one should not despair yet, because I believe he sets an increasingly exciting foundation for his two last books by doing so. As he slowly (almost like real-life) lets us sink so deep into this fantasy world, playing our own feelings of admiration, fear and excitement of the characters described within the books, that all we can do is sit back and wait in stunned excitement for the inevitable end that must come. And the feeling of dread when it does come, promising nothing but emptiness as we seek to replace that valuable, yet undescribable feeling when reading such a masterpiece...
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Summary: The book is boring, and at this pace who rememb. the prelude
Review: I expected more from Jordan, if he wants to expand the plot to such a threadfull pattern, than he should publish his books a little faster. Maybe concentrating on one main character for the length of the book is a better recipe for success. Since it seems that the tapestry Jordan is weaving has too many multicolored threads that pull at the eye first one way and then another without ever focussing on the complete pattern.Mr. Jordan, put the flair of the first four books back into the series or lose a great deal of respect from your readers.
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Summary: Imagination
Review: I've been browsing through the different reviews, and there in something that strikes me as weird. Not many people talk about how the book makes your imagination fly and the very intersting conversations it creates with other fans. It's true that the book in itself is a bit slow, but anyway, read it. And it's much more interesting to talk about the series than all those boring conversations about politcs economics and so on. I think that the structure is very complex and it's all the best that every interpretation is possible. Don't you just wait for the story to be served to you, try to imagine it in advance, the book will be all the more interesting.
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Summary: Rapturuous plot and characters.
Review: In TPoD's the three men from The Two Rivers are apart yet when I read the book I get the feeling that the story-line is coalescing into a cataclysmic end.At the end of a CoS's, Mat was in(or under)trouble, Perrin was somewhere in Ghealdan and Rand was king of Illian.Elayne and co. were planning to correct the weather and Padan Fain was lurking in the background.As is always the case, Jordan never does exactly what we expect and finds the thorn on the rose (and vice versa).This book, although slow at the start, acts as a foundation upon which book 9 will be built and is an excellent read in and of itself regardless of what has came before-hand and what will come in the future.I have read many books in this genre - Tolkien, Wurts,George R.R.Martin and David Eddings - and have never read a series which can compete with the WoT.
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Summary: I'd give it 3.33 stars to be more accurate
Review: The first time I read this book I was pretty disappointed, but the second read showed me that it's not as bad as some people are making it out to be. Just remember that it all fits into the masterplan. There is one major point of contention that I have though: This book is actually very short. If you compare it with the other hardbacks in the series, you'll notice it's shorter in terms of pages and even worse, the font is huge! Compare it to the hardback of Lord of Chaos and you'll see what I mean. It looks like they're trying to deceive the readers. For shame, Tor! For shame, Robert Jordan! Too bad this is the 1500th review and nobody's gonna see it.
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Summary: You will read....
Review: Robert Jordan's series, as a whole, is so comprehensive and complicated that those who engage the first novel will never be able to stop reading. While the eighth addition lacks the speed of the originals, every person who has reviewed it knows if the ninth was 2000 pages and didn't include even a reference to the best character, Mat, they would still read it...more than once. There were scenes in this book that got me jumping all over (Logain's appearance specifically, various other scenes), and as long as the story becomes more complicated, the more pleasant suprizes we'll run into. If you don't want to read a involved complex story then go read something shallow and short...try one of those doppy romance novellas. Just for the record, anyone care to wager on whether Mat returns married and in much power to a Seanchan babe? OH boy...
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Summary: The Series Has Run Out of Steam...
Review: I don't have time to be obsessed with keeping track of the many plot lines Jordan has brought to this series. I certainly have no intention of re-reading all the books again just to figure out where he last left us off. 5,000+ pages, I think, requires a synopsis to help those of us who have a life to get back into the thread of things. I've read all the books in this series, and after 4 or 5, they simply stopped being entertaining. Frankly, after Crown of Thorns, which was such a ponderous, tedious read, I was hoping that the cement hadn't hardened that much in his new book. Well, it has. The prologue was agonizing. The rest was just as bad. I'm still trying to get through it, since there are too many books out there that beckon me with their freshness, their consideration for the reader, and that are not weighted down with the arrogant self-importance that the Jordan hype has brought to his series. Given the actual weight of "The Path of Daggers" hard copy, its use as a doorstop might be one way to recover the wasted expense.
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Summary: Can we say BORING!!!!
Review: This book (or I should say series) has so many flaws I don't know where to begin. It's just not going anywhere. Three hundred and fifty pages (I haven't had the strength to read further) and the only significant event has been the use of the "Bowl of the Winds" (it's about bloody time) and there escape to Camylon. The rest of the pages have just been wasted catching up on where everyone is, and with so many characters I imagine this could take up the rest of the book as well. This series has never had any real substance but the first two or three books worked well because they followed the basic fun heroic adventure story formula. We had a main hero (Rand) with a few friends fleeing the powers of a nearly invincible dark one. Now we've branched off into so many paths that there is no single hero. All of the main characters have become leaders of thousands of people and rarely do anything themselves except for staring down Aes Sedia or trying to figure out exactly what is meant by so an so's tone of voice or facial expression. In a good adventure story the good guys should be the weak under dogs against an incredibly powerful enemy. The dark ones presence is hardly felt in this book. All the heroes have huge armies protecting them so there's no real sense of danger. I think by telling the story from the forsaken's perspective so often he's humanized them and made them much less intimidating. This story has branched off with so many different characters that it neglects the main characters. Maybe I've just got a bad memory, but I can't keep track of who is who (What I really can't understand is why the glossary has shrunk with each book. In Path of Daggers its virtually nonexistent.) Finally there's the predictability problem. By the time anything happens, instead of being surprised or thrilled your like "well it's about stinking time". If your hoping that this series will go somewhere with Path of Daggers let me tell you it doesn't. It's just more of the same stuff we've seen in the last four books (which I think could have been combined into one or two).
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Summary: gotta take your medicine
Review: Most of you reviewers out there sound like spoiled brats. The first six books were phenomenal, i have read many books, and i love these more than anything. These last two are just setting up the mother of all endings, they may be slow, but fast paced nonstop action doesn't work that well for 8 volumes. Sit tight and wait for the fireworks to start going off. I have had the advantage of only starting the series 4 months ago, so i've read all eight books nonstop. This will be kind of weird having to actually wait for the next one. Book 9 will be great, stop being traitors. On a side note, i've decided i hate aes sadae, and I really hate Nyneave. They are all too pretentious, think they know everything, and the books really start to indirectly get you to hate women. Nyneave's attitude toward mat really pisses me off. Normally, i would figure that they were going to fall in love soon, so it wouldn't bother me, but she's with Lan, so I know that won't happen. I don't think she will ever be nice to anybody. I hope RJ makes her grovel before mat when he saves her AGAIN. And she better apologize sometime.
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