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Summary: Perhaps the most terrible fantasy book ever.
Review: I have read many a fantasy author. To name a few, RA Salvatore, Allan Cole and Chris Bunch, David Eddings, Terry Brooks, Terry Goodkind, and of course, Jordan. His first six books were gripping masterpieces. However, in the last two, his story has gone downhill. I would not recommend Path of Daggers to ANYone. Absolutely NOTHING happened with Mat, the most interesting character, and nothing really happened with Saldaea! Jordan tried to substitute introducing some new characters and new concepts (untying weaves? That was just contrived.) for an actual plot. Raymond E Feist's magical realms of mystery, Terry Goodkind's interesting characters, and Allan Cole and Chris Bunch's sweeping epic fantasy worlds all now outdo this series. Sorry Jordan.
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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: This book is drawn out. Get with the plot sometime. Don't waste your time buying it... wait for paperback or even better go to a library to read it. I've been a hardcore WoT fan for years now, but I'm not sure I want to continue after PoD.
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Summary: Wall-denting speed record.
Review: I didn't even make it past the prologue of this book before it went flying toward my wall. Jordan's detailed descriptions have deteriorated into endless infodumps without relevance to the central story. One minor character looking at a group of other minor characters produces paragraphs of mind-bogglingly unnecessary factoids about each one. I pulled the book back out of my wall later on and randomly flipped through, only to see more of the same wretched wallowing in plotless "ambience". I give up. Incidentally, to answer those RJ fans who say that only other best-selling authors are qualified to criticize his books, I say you don't have to be able to lay an egg to tell if it's rotten.
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Summary: Its not a stand alone book
Review: I thought that this was actually a very good book. The reason it was released like this was: time. Granted, it would have been better if the first half were tacked onto the end of book 7, and the second half, plus book nine, where book 8. However, nobody wanted to wait 3-4 years for seven, so they released it, and now we have to take the filler which is good, just not action packed and great like the ones with the mane story elements. But think of book nine...Tar Valon under siege...Rand confronts the creator...Matt meets daughter of the nine moons...Perrin confronts (again) the whitecloaks, this time w/ an army, and if we're lucky, the Aiel will shatter themselves into a fraction of a fraction against the Seanchan.
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Summary: It took me 3 weeks to finish this installment!
Review: Do you want to know why? I was disipointed and bored with it. Boring, boring, boring...I'm sorry but it was...I remember puting it down for a week and reading 'Rage of a Demon King'(by Raymond E. Feist, good book) instead...it only took me 4 weeks to read the first 6(the 7th in only 2 days)! There are good things about the book though and here they are: 1. It allows the reader to see how much Rand takes for advantage...his strength, dexterity, and the many Talents with the One Power he has. 2. It futher illustrates how much Aes Sedai suck! 3. It futher illustrates how much the women characters in general suck! 4. Though I believe Jordan should have done it earlier on in the series, he writes this book mostly from the women's POV 5. It's a great stager, in that I mean that in the next book anything can happen I don't buy for one moment, with his skill and imagination, that this book took 2 years to write(I think he took about 2 weeks on this title). I think this is just the one book to tone the public down so that he can have more time to develop the plot and finally end the series in the next 2 books. Note: The real score I gave was a 2.5
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Summary: No story, endless droning
Review: This highly acclaimed series never seems to end, which wouldn't be that bad if the books were not growing increasingly boring with each release. Diehards will buy this, no doubt, but for a casual reader of this series who is unsure how much more of it they want to read, I say this: STOP NOW. Mr. Jordan has mastered the art of going on for 20 pages+ (literally) describing the most insignificant of things, or devoting entire chapters to conversations that do absolutely nothing to push the story forward or develop characters that have already been described into the ground. You must trudge through the first 150 pages of this book before anything of significance even happens - chapter after chapter devoted to this woman wondering about what the other bickering woman are saying to one another, and other such nonsense. The amount of characters and groups and factions is growing with each passing book, until it is now at an unbearable level. Rather than have a new novel in the series be a significant step forward in the tale of the Dragon Reborn, we have the multitude of characters fighting for page time to such a degree that none of the story gets told! More happened in the first novel than has occurred in the last three combined. Ugh. Again, die hards will stick by this, but if you are one of the many toying with the idea of bailing out on the series, now is the time to do it.
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Summary: Don't ever stop
Review: Mr Jordan, keep it going. You're one of a few who have the spark within themselves to write such legendary work. Don't listen to anybody who bags your books, if they don't have anything constructive to say, they can be 'directed to the door' for all I care. Never stop, keep this saga going for I'll regret the day when there is no more Rand, Mat, Perrin and Co. Awesome read.
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Summary: This book is the BEST
Review: I've read all of Robert Jordan's books and i think this one is the best book he has ever writen.
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Summary: very interesting
Review: I really like the series very much. but when is or is there going to be a book 9?
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Summary: Ok start, but lacking
Review: In the grand tradition of Robert Jordan books it is a contiuation of a great story, however this has been the worst story yet. Several main characters or groups were left out and it lacked the great moments of tention and suspence. Overall it was disaponting, but bein g a die hard fan of Robert Jordan. I will stick this series till the end.
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