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The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, Book 8)

The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, Book 8)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Book!! I can barelly wait for the next one.
Review: I thought Robert Jordan could not possibly have more loose ends... Well, I was wrong. Book 8 has no dubious characters, and things really start to solidify. The book has an overall sense of maturity that the other 7 lacked.

By the end of this book, you are certain of who is where, you just don't know what will happen next. I particularly enjoyed Rand and Perry assuming a more definitive role. Their characters are finaly very certain of themselves. Overall, this is a great book. I can barely wait for book 9 (and 10, and 11, and 12...)

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: This book is fair.
Review: Path of Daggers, the eighth book in the series Wheel of Time, was a disappointment. After waiting for more than a year, I had hope to read a good book by Robert Jordan. Instead, this book turned out to be just fair. There was too much talk and enough action. The events described in the previous volumes just seemed to drag on and on.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Masterful
Review: Jordan continues to demonstrate his immense talent as a writer and a storyteller with The Path of Daggers. For those fans hopelessly addicted to the rest of the series (and you know who you are), you won't be disappointed by this latest installation. The scenes with Perrin and Faile, the tension generated and Perrin's gradual, though reluctant, acceptance of his being Ta'varen continue to be wonderfully written. As do Rand's grim methods for dealing with officious, backstabbing nobles. To put it succintly, his plan for dealing with the threat posed by the Seachan, and at the same time for cementing the alliances of those supporters of dubious loyalty was sweet as hell. Not to mention an ending to the book, and some scenes within, that were quite surprising, serving to add even more edge-of-the-seat tension to this collosal plot. My only regret in the book was that Rand's annihilation of the Seachan wasn't expanded upon with more battle scenes. But that's a trifling detail. The only advice I would give to perspective readers is to make sure your current on the series. Obviously, and I think this is where many of the slams on the book come from, if you haven't read the series in a year or two years, you'll have difficulty remembering the characters and you clearly won't enjoy the book as much. For those who wrote such atrocious critiques, which I found not only irritating but also insulting, I would suggest rereading the series from the beginning, and you'll see that The Path of Daggers isn't just filler but a majestically written, immensely compelling, and wonderfully inventive book in its own right. If not, I guess you can always opt for a brain transplant. Kudos to RJ.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Garbage!
Review: The only reason I gave it a star is cause you couldn't give a negative rating. Geez! I could say this all in two words--Where's Mat? My favorite character has disappeared off the face of the earth! The plot goes nowhere! The only thing new happening is there's a snow storm and Rand's going mad. I was SEVERELY disappointed by this junk. Frankly, I got more out of reading the dust jacket than the book. The plot goes nowhere, only leads to more complexities, and nothing is cleared up. AND WHERE'S MAT? You leave him dying and maybe captured by Seanchan, and everyone's hanging onto what's going to happen, and DON'T EVEN MENTION HIM! I was lucky I got this book at the library instead of wasting money on buying it. Frankly, the only use I can see for it is to burn it. The other seven books were wonderful; this one, a five -year-old could have written better. If number Nine is like this, I'm stopping reading Jordan for once and for all, and he's lost a formerly great fan.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Negative Rating
Review: My pet Guppie, could have written a more lively story. I was waiting for Mat, I was waiting for Rand to Kill Mazrim. Shoot I was waiting for the week to end, this whole book took place in about a week. And so many tangents, a College Geometry teacher would get lost in about two point seven seconds.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Yada-Yada-Yada
Review: PoD is a book about "nothing", "not that there's anything wrong with that" (apologies to Seinfeld). The first 4 WoT books were riveting but unfortunately it's been an agonizing down-hill slide ever since. This is the first epic I've read where I'm actually considering bailing out at this point. At best, I won't be buying "Book 9" until I've read the reviews and it's in paperback! R.J. let's try to get some focus back into this series and bring it to a clever, exciting conclusion.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Waited too long for way too little!
Review: I waited 2 years for the story to continue and this is it? I hope the next volume is due out next week because Path of Daggers was, in reality, a Trail of Tedium.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This series was going nowhere from book four
Review: I think RJ is spending more time on Computer games and other stuff to give a hoot about his books but he ceeps churning them out for more money.

DONT BUY THIS BOOK (or any of them for that matter)

You will just get hooked on a story that starts great and ends (if it ever will end) as a pathetic scam

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Reader's small attention span causes this books' low rating
Review: Oh, all ye conniosseurs of Fantasy, I truly pity your innability to concentrate on a series that has the potential of being the JRR Tolkein of the 21th century. I do not deny that the pace of PoD has significantly slowed, but it has not become less interesting. What you seem to demand is more action and less plot. If you look at this objectively, many of you will realize how terribly shallow this insistence is. Let RJ develop his story. I am certain and would also wish to assure you as well that what he has done in the past few books will be appreciated when you see all of the plot complexities come together. While you may wish only for an immediate conclusion, would it not be much more interesting if you waited until all of the diverging parts of the story coalesce into a single masterful end with each plot twist given its place. I believe so. I also would like to defend RJ from this notion that he has "sold out" and become a "capitalist pig". Perhaps some of you do not realize this, but one of the reasons why WoTwas even given birth is due to Robert Jordan's love for history. The amount of research that man has had to put into this story to create (or recreate if choose to observe their historical base) the ethnic races and cultural idiosyncrasies is immense, from my understanding. To suggest that he is now writing his novels for money is absurd given the amount of time he has invested in its plot and story. In fact, during what many of you complain about as the long wait between books, RJ was writing novels that were based much more in history than WoT has ever been. I think the problem lies in this notion, which many of you harbor, that Robert Jordan should cater to each of your assumptions on what fantasy is. What I propose is a little trust and a little less derisiveness in your responses to PoD. Wait and see. I believe that this slower pace is a sign of growth as opposed to one of a loss of ideas or a "sell out". But if you are one who desires that Robert Jordan only satisfy your desire for a shallow fantasy series, have a little patients and maybe he will revert to his old ways.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Everyone of you "critics" are crazy
Review: For the people who gave this book 1, you all are crazy. There is nothing out there of this magnitude to compare these books with. Jordan has done something no other author has everdone! It's like someone giving Tolkien's second book, at the time, in the Lord of the Rings a 1 star because it was too "slow". The reason everyone was dissapointed was because the longer we wait for the next one, the higher our expectations will be for it. So if you're not a hard core fantasy fan, and cannot appriciate what he has done, then go read Stephen King!

Tolkar


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