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Summary: Read this one Twice!!! Can't wait for number 8!!!
Review: I haven't been disappointed in any of the Wheel of Time books, and this one was the best to date. The Characters are complex and Jordan ties the story together so cleverly that every page in this is series only leads to anticipation on the next one. I love Fantasy, and Jordan's Wheel of Time series is one of my all time favorites! I only have one complaint... that he doesn't write them as fast as I read them!
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Summary: Its good so far
Review: I am only on page 262, but it is awsome! My only problem is that the front cover is shorter than the rest of the book, and when I read, it always falls out of my hands. But Mr. Jordan, I've got to hand it to you that this is another great book. When are you going to publish the next book? I go through a book per week and I started this one this morning. Okay so I read slow, but I spend most of my day reading away, ask the kids at my school. PLEASE WRITE FAST! YOUR FANS ARE WAITING!
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Summary: In anticaption for book#8
Review: For anyone who is thinking of starting Robert Jordan's WOT: DON'T....Not until he finishes the whole series...it's torture waiting for the next book. I agree with all the reviewers that thought that Mat's rape scene was not funny. And I also think that Olver is Gaider Cain reborn - did anyone else spot that?
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Summary: Crown of Swords
Review: Ah the classic Robert Jordan book...build up the suspense with all the loose ends. The only problem...too long a delay between books, but so what...we can read them all over again. Robert Jordan rocks.
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Summary: What a bore
Review: As a loyal WOT reader it causes me great pain to write this but it must be done. This book shows what the series has become. Absolutely boring. I had to read this book inbetween my purchases of other books to even finnish it. The author needs to quit stalling to make a few bucks and finnish this series. I for one will not buy anymore in this series till it is finnished, and only then when there arent any of my other favorites out there to buy.
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Summary: Not his best, but still very interesting
Review: What an amazing collection of reviews. This book runs the gamut of the worst book anybody's written to the greatest fantasy novel of our time. The first book was so good that now, eight years later, maybe we all expect too much of RJ. A lot of complaints about the length of time between novels. I think RJ knows he needs a winner in the next one. That's why he's taking his time.
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Summary: By far the best book I've ever read.
Review: Being in my very favorite series of books, this is the best one in the series. Robert Jordan's writing is AMAZING!!!
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Summary: Huh?
Review: First things first. I've been a big RJ fan for several years now, gobbling up the books as they came out. For the longest time I was a Wheel of Time fanatic with the best of them. Then, you know what? I grew up. I read other fantasy books, and realized, no, WOT is not the best out there. It's not the greatest world ever created. The characters aren't incredibly well done, or even well done at all in most cases. All that said, I still think books 1, 2, and 4 are among the most entertaining fantasies I've read. However, 6 and 7 have fallen terribly. The Wheel of Time was never great literature (face it - comparisons with Tolkien are ludicrous; all you need is one look to see that Tolkien's command of language is supreme, and RJ ripped *so* much from the Lord of the Rings; examples: Padan Fain is analogous to Smeagol/Gollum; the Nym are analogous to the Ents; Perrin's return to the Two Rivers is analogous to the "Scourging of the Shire"; etc., etc.), but it's always been entertaining. Yes, books 6 and 7 are still pretty fun to read, but not nearly as gripping. It took me a week to read book 7! Having finished books 1 through 5 in no more than two days apiece, and book 6 in three, that really says something. When I reread the series I found A Crown of Swords almost boring at times. Coming from a fan like me, that's harsh criticism. Why did I find it boring? Too much filler, too few happenings. Nothing is resolved questionable argument to say the least. For true fantasy, I suggest the average WoT fanatic should broaden his/her horizons and pick up Tolkien, or maybe Donaldson (just finished the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - wow!), or even Wolfe. For purely entertaining fantasy, the Wheel of Time is still wonderful, but George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones has taken the trophy away. I await Martin's and Jordan's forthcoming works to make my next judgement. Turn it around, RJ!
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Summary: Excellent - but where is the NEXT book???
Review: I, my husband, and my son are all reading this series and I have finished first! WHAT am I going to do while I wait for the next one? I cannot even think about starting on something else while not knowing what happens with the Last Battle; how does Elaida "get hers" - when will (or WILL they) the Aes Sedai ever realize that true power lies in balance??? Does Elayne's mother ever get free of the Children of the Light? What happens when they use the bowl Elayne and Nynaeve have been looking for? Does Rand ever get Elayne on the throne??? Etc. etc. etc...I am hanging in mid-air here!!! Loved the series so far though *grin* Is there any way to contact the author?
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Summary: How many times can you read the same thing?
Review: Unfortunately, things seem to be going downhill for RJ, after the horrid release of COS. There was so little substance, with events reoccuring to almost every character, and describied in monstrously long detail each and every time. Min all of the sudden wants Rand's "warm flesh?" When the hell did this appear, and why in Light's name is it RJs style now? Elayne and Nynaeve get a good laugh at Mat being relentlessly raped by Tylin, and I find that disturbing. No doubt I'll read the next one, but there needs to be less pointless rape and more substance. This pattern of 900 pages of describing minor characters and then finishing with 20 pages of quick Chosen killing has to end. I pray to the Creator that it gets better.....
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