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Summary: Better than Eye of the World.
Review: I was so glad that in this volume they didn't need to stop in every little town.This is the main reason that I consider this better than Eye of the World.But than it also has more romance(I so hope that Rand and Egwene marry at the end of the series)and answers more questions ,plus the Dragon is Reborn. This book was also not as slow and ploddding as the first one.It has many plot twists,and near escapes,et cetera.To be frank ,I loved it.
One night ,when Rand al'Thor accidentally mentions the Dark One's name(Shai'tan)the Horn of Valere is stolen.He ,Mat,Perrin,Loial,and a handful of others go out in search of Padan Fain,the one who stole the Horn.
Meanwhile,Egwene and Nynaeve are being trained as Aes Sedai at the White Tower.
Anyone who likes Feist,read this.
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Summary: The Great Hunt pulls you in and won't let you go!
Review: This book is so wonderful. Nothing that you expect to happen happens, there is a twist around every corner. Robert Jordan just leaves you thirsting for more!
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Summary: Amazing...the best modern heroic fantasy book
Review: Beats the Eye of the World hollow.
Bears comparison with Tolkien at places.
The highest point in a series that has just plummeted since then.
Strongly recommend it to anyone - even the casual reader of fiction.
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Summary: one of the best
Review: i love how the plot goes WOOSH and inflates to epic porportions, a trouble many authors have. but jordan nails it. 5 stars
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Summary: Sliding scale
Review: ... My memory of certain parts of the book is still fairly good, but I certainly don't remember everything that went on. This book, more than any of the others, could have used a sliding scale of points. ... my evaluation would probably have gone something like this: +2 stars for the Darkfriends' meeting in the beginning of the book, which gives various clues to the identity of Darkfriends later. -3 stars for the Borderlands society, where the woman pretend to let men rule for no apparent reason. ... I could understand this if the book's societies were portrayed as violently anti-female and the women felt the need to manipulate things from behind the scenes in fear for their lives, but this is not the case for any of the book's societies. ... +1 star each for the initial appearance of the phrases "Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain" and "The grave is no bar to my call." -1 star when I realized that the death-duty proverb would keep reappearing again...and again...and again... Apparently, having found a good thing, Jordan is reluctant to let it go. +3 stars for the initial descriptions of various parts of Aes Sedai training, such as the flower visualizations used to help novices and Accepted unlock their powers. Very few fantasy books describe the *details* of magical training, so this caught my attention. +4 stars for the description of the flies in the village Rand passes through. I still remember that. Many descriptive authors regularly evoke beauty, but few remember how effective it can be to evoke disgust. +1 for Mat's reaction to learning that Rand might be the Dragon. He is almost the only character who reacts realistically, and he became my favorite character from that moment forward. -6 stars for "The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills" and the sternness of everyone in power about yielding to fate. Now, my intense love of free will might be a personal trait, but the idea that mindless obedience is encouraged and invidiualism, independence, and rebellion absolutely discouraged wore on me. It also allows Jordan to use the most fantastic coincidences and get away with them. Hey, it was fate! -2 stars for the apparent forced marriages of males among the Ogier. This might be some kind of analogy to the forced marriages of women throughout Earth's history, but if so, it read more like vengeance than an analogy. ... +10 stars for the Seanchan and their society. The strange beasts (about which we never really hear much, alas) and their intriguing caste system introduced a strong sense of the alien that doesn't appear anywhere else in Jordan's work, except possibly with the Aiel. -12 stars for my sudden realization in this book that Jordan apparently possesses no sense of linguistic reality whatsoever. His people come from culture after strange culture, and there's only one language for the *whole* *entire* *continent?* Some people have accents, and the Seanchan slur their words, but that's it. And apparently the language spoken now has no real relation to the Old Tongue. And apparently the villagers of Emond's Field, despite staying in the same spot for hundreds of years and only having contact with the occasional traveler, can understand the speech of capital cities with ease. ... +3 stars for the battle at the end, and -1 for my realization ... +2 stars for the lines "Masema, who hated him. Masema, who looked at him as if seeing a vision of the Light." (at least I think that's how it goes). That moment has stayed with me, probably because the wording thrills me. I've left out quite a lot, and some of what's in here is (no doubt) due to personal idiosyncrasies. But I do think there are problems with Jordan's work that people don't mention often to be pointed out, as well as strengths to be praised.
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Summary: Some good development here...
Review: I've looked over both rave reviews & hate reviews before starting mine. Personally, I feel that the series hits a good stride here. The first book was a better than adequate introduction to the characters and the basic story line. Now, this second book takes us deeper into the mythology and develops some of the minor characters from the first book along with a few new ones. I enjoyed this one better. While the middle of the first book subjected us to a long trek with repetitious happenings and dreams along the way, the middle of this one keeps going with the differently developing threads between the female characters and the males on the hunt. The ending did make me hungrier for the next book in the series.
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Summary: The Great Hunt
Review: "Tia mi aven Moridin isainde vadin." Thus it is written on the Horn of Valere, meaning "The grave is no bar to my call." For hundreds of years, storytellers have told the legendary tale of the Great Hunt of the Horn of Valere. The Horn will bring back the dead warriors of the Age of Legends. Rand al'Thor, a shepherd from the Two Rivers with a heron-marked sword, is the Dragon Reborn, Lews Therin Telamon, who will break the world, the one soul who will defy the Dark Lord. It was Rand al'Thor who found the Horn of Valere. But it is stolen, along with the evil-tainted dagger from Shadar Logoth that Matrim Cauthon, Rand's friend, is bonded to and will die without. A group of brave men set out to find the Horn and the dagger. " 'You ride to find the Horn, and the hope of the world rides with you. The Horn cannot be left in the wrong hands, especially in Darkfriend hands. Those who come to answer its call, will come whoever blows it, and they are bound to the Horn, not to the Light. I charge all of you, find the Horn, and let nothing bar your way.' " This novel contains suspense and keeps you on your toes with exhilarating action.
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Summary: Jordan is the Master
Review: If you read Book One, then no doubt you are tempted to read Book II. Don't delay. It's just as good as the first and the scandals and plots get thicker. In this book we learn more about the various Ajahs of the Aeis Sadai and we visit the White Tower at long last. Can't say anymore......Don't want to ruin anything for you, but you are in for some real surprises.
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Summary: Getting better
Review: ***3.5 stars*** Whereas the first book was a lot of pages setting up the action, book 2 plunges the reader into it. And that, ultimately, is what makes this a better book. Jordan is limited as a writer: he's not a wordsmith like Tolkien or Donaldson, nor is he a good developer of larger themes like those giants were. He also doesn't have a knack for creating characters that jump off of the page (Eddings), either, although he certainly is not at a loss to keeping adding more of them to the stew. Jordan's success, then, is in the plot, and this book has several good ones going on.
Also, thankfully, the Tolkien borrowings aren't nearly as prominent as the first book, although Aragorn (I mean Lan) and Gandalf (I mean Thom Merrelin) are back for more. Now that we know more about Aes Sedai, they and their purposes do seem to be highly reminiscient of Frank Herbert's Bene Gesserit, but at least Jordan is borrowing across genres now.
This is just a very good, very tight (uncharacteristically so, I'm finding out, as I'm now on the fifth book and there are long stretches where nothing seems to happen later on) novel that makes Jordan's world come alive much more so than the first book did. Of particular interest was the invasion of the Seanchan, a race of warlike people from "across the sea" who deal with their female channelers in a way much differently than rasing them to be Aes Sedai. Rand is becoming a little less interesting now that the novelty of treating him as a fish out of water has passed, but more is done with the other characters to pick up the slack.
Points deducted for Jordan's cornball, tiresome "battle of the sexes" theme and for the smash-you-over-the-head obviousness of his lupine depictions of Perrin (who is frequently sitting on his "haunches" or "sniffing the air"), but most of the time the story is good enough for one to ignore such things.
If the rest of series is as good as the Great Hunt, this will be a better than average series.
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Summary: An amazing novel
Review: The Great Hunt is a masterful sequel to The Eye of the World. The plot never slows in this novel. I am honestly amazed by the difference between Jordan's first novels and his latter ones. He still shifts between multiple plots, but people can still see how they are connected. Egwene and Nyn leave the White Tower, but they are still involved with what happens to Rand. What also makes this novel better than some of the later ones is that you can pick this book up and read it without reading the first one. Somethings may not be clear, but you will still enjoy a good novel. What happens. Rand feels abandoned by Moraine in Fal Dara and resolves to leave without his friends. He makes it as far as the stable before he learns he cannot leave. While he is trapped in the city, trollocs storm the keep; Mat's dagger and the horn of Valere are stolen. With's Mat's need and the knowledge that the followers of the horn will follow whoever blows it, Rand joins the chase for the horn. Egwene and Nyn are off to the White Tower, but after three months are off on their own adventure. The chase for the horn covers multiple countries and starts and finishes wars. But in the end it is Rand versus the Dark One for the lives of his friends. I cannot do justice to the action or excitement of this novel. I have read it recently and encourage you to buy this novel, because like me, you will probably read it more than once.
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