Rating: Summary: Almost made me quit reading the series Review: While the end of the book and the beginning are rather good, you as a reader should look forward to a long and boring mid section of this novel. It rambles on and on about detail and things that have little if no action. For a period of a few months I quit reading this book because the fourty or fifty page sections with the three women characters were so boring that I felt like I was wasting my time. So I warn you... if you are willing to fight through the boring sections with the women characters then I suggest reading this book, its ending is worth the wait.
Rating: Summary: too many characters Review: This IS a good book, but it is just not as tight as the first one. The author starts wandering into political intrigues and lots of new characters, so many it is hard to keep up with who is who at times. I love the action!
Rating: Summary: One of Many Greats Review: Great book. Great series. Lots of intrigue, suspense, action, romance, just about everything really. I'm still waiting for the next one to come out! (er, the next one after Winter's Heart, that is). Highly recomended for any fantasy reader.
Rating: Summary: 5 Stars for Great Hunt. As for Wheel of Time..... Review: I Promise: I'm going to be spoiler free. This is the second book in the Wheel of Time (WOT) series (after Eye of the World). It is BETTER than the first one. Jordan is really finding his legs with the series. All of the tenants of excellent fantasy are here. Jordan is a great writer who builds an incredible world with a compelling history. His characters are also incredible. Great Hunt is a great book, but be warned: as of this writing Jordan hasn't finished WOT. The Great Hunt does not stand alone, the ending is something of a cliffhanger. My guess is the end of this series isn't going to happen until 2006 (I believe there are going to be 12 books, but I don't think there's an official word). Is it going to be worth it? I don't think so. WOT has gotten very complicated and is becoming turgid. Sometime around Book 6, the action began to crawl. Book 8 (the last one I read) was almost 700 pages and took place over three days, AND was practically missing some important characters! I've read the first five books twice now beacuse it is too difficult to wait a year between reading books. (And he's coming out with them once every other year at this point). My advice: Wait until Jordan's finished them all. It's best to read them one after another. By then we'll know if it was worth the wait. You've been warned! My grade for the series: 1. Wheel of Time: A- 2. Great Hunt: A 3. Dragon Reborn: A+ 4. Shadow Rising: A+ 5. Fires of Heaven: A 6. Lord of Chaos: B 7. Crown of Swords: C+ 8. Path of Daggars: C 9. Winter's Heart (haven't read, waiting for Jordon to finish)
Rating: Summary: Can't Put It Down! Great Series! Review: Just like "The Eye...," TGH starts out with nothing but action. This action carries out abundantly through the whole 680 pages through three or four different stories, each involving significant characters. The cast of main characters become larger, as the number of lands, customs & all-to-suspenseful scenes that Lan, Rand, Moiriane, Egwene, Hurin, Loial, Mat, Perrin, Ingtar & the rest have been through is at a high number even though this is only the second book. I'd talk more, but there's big books to read!.......
Rating: Summary: Best Fantasy Collection Ever Written Review: I have been reading the Wheel of Time series since the first book came out and this is my favorite series ever. However, it's not for everyone. Jordan is probably the most descriptive writer I have ever read and he will describe everything he possibly can in one situation in order to set the mood properly. This makes his books, and the chapters, very long. Some people don't like long and descriptive, elaborate writing like this, I do, and I believe that Robert Jordan is the best author I have ever read. Read the series in order, starting from the first book, and it will make a lot more sense and be much more enjoyable reading. I've gone back and read all of them over again at least twice.
Rating: Summary: A Great Sequel to the Wheel of Time Review: Jordan does it again with this book. The whole book is very in depth down to the last page. Will they be able to find the horn and at the same time be able to defeat the Dark One.
Rating: Summary: A Great Sequel Review: Jordan comes through again in the Great Hunt. Rand has to deal with pressures of being able to channel, Perrin is depressed because of his ability to talk to wolves, and Mat's dagger is stolen along with the Horn of Valere(sp?) by Padin Fain. Egwene, Elyane, and Nynaveave go off to the White Tower to learn how to be Aes Seadi (though Nynaveave [annoyingly] only goes so she can for some reason kill Moiraine for some ambiguous and pointless reason) Rand gets lost in another world on his chase of the Horn and dagger where he meets a mysterious women who becomes very important later in the series...I'll leave it at that... If you did not like the last book because Jordan borrowed some things from Tolkien then you will like this one more because he does no do that here. Magic becomes more important; standard fantasy cliches are almost non-existant; the plot is complex; and women take a more active role. The main reason this book is great is because the characters develope a lot more. Mat shows his true colors from the beginning and very ending of the previous book; Perrin has conflicting ideas of his abilities; Lan and Moiraine's relationship gets more complicated; and all the other women develope more(Egwene, Nynaeve, and Elyane) Though, I still don't think this book is as good as the Eye of the World. In TEOTW everything was more detailed and Jordan painted a better picture. In this book danger is at every corner and the dumb characters walk right into it. (The po-dung women where at least smart in the previous book) I do have a couple of small gripes that almost gives this book a 4 but not quite. The main character (especiall the women) are petty, childish, and argumentative. There is competition between women and men where women think all men are "wool heads, hasty, over-heroic, and thing with the hair on their chest. The men are whipped and bend over backwards to this treatment and let the women walk all over them. (I think Jordan is trying to appease his wife) But still, this is a great book, one of the best in the series. It is detailed there are plots at every turn and Jordan tells a satisfying story.
Rating: Summary: perfecto Review: i thought the book was a mastery of the world Tolkien created in The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings .Before i read this i thought no one would ever beat tolkien or even equaly I believe this man Robert Jordan has done it.I kept expecting to find a ring power a hobbit in it He is the tolkien of our age
Rating: Summary: One of the few good ones Review: I have read the entire series and this is one of the few books in the series that can be read with having not read what comes before. This is a self contain story that has a history and a future in the previous and next books. I would call this the 2nd best book of the series after The Dragon Reborn.
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