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Summary: My disappointment/someone stole the other half of my book
Review: ....While this book clears up a few character ambiguities,allows us to indentify a few recycled personalities, and has asmashing good finish, it left me feeling, well...unsatisfied. Thereturn of Mat is welcome, as is discovering more about Verin,Cadsuane, and the Seanchan culture. But once again, Jordan gives usmerely a "kiss and a promise." As in Path Of Daggers,characters appearing in the Prologue don't show up again for the restof the novel. The whole of Winter's Heart is set BEFORE the ending ofPOD, so Egwene has not yet set out to attack the White Tower. Perrinsets out to find Faile, but for all the 300 pages devoted to his pointof view, all he finds are her clothes. Aside from the majorconfrontation at the end of the novel (as ALL Wheel of Time novelsseem to end), there are no major plot threads tied off. Don't expectto know absolutely who killed Asmodean, if Moiraine is alive, ifSammael is still skulking about, or to know how many Forsaken arestill living by the end of the book. Ever since Lord Of Chaos, thebook pages themselves have gotten smaller, the font size bigger, andthe margins wider. While this installment may contain the action thatsome readers have cried out for, it seems whip from one point of viewto the next without truly forwarding the overall narrative. A decentaddition to the WOT story, but to me a disappointing end to a two yearwait. At this pace, I shudder to thing how many years it will beuntil the series is concluded.
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Summary: why do people want resolution?!?!
Review: robert's jordan's recent trend towards fragmented and incomprehensible plots is the most exciting and good thing to happen to fantasy since raymond feist ignored the "rules" and wrote the excellent "magician". unlike feist, who quickly descended into standard fantasy fare, jordan has continuosly pushed fantasy forward into an intensely more interesting realm of irresolution and textural world-building. bravo, the only thing im worried about is that fact that jordan has definite plans to finish the series. if ever a series deserved to be left open ended, this one does.
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Summary: About damn time
Review: After reading the first hundred or so pages I was ready to throw the book out the window... something about Perrin still fighting the lord thing after 9 books make me a lil short fused. I swear if he complains about the damn flags again I am going to hunt him down in a wolf dream and strangle him with them. And the whole Elayne deal... I mean how many times can she bag on rand for being a foolish male, or how many chars can Jordan talk about that will never be a part of the story. Anyway... the last halve of the book has all the old Jordan flare. All the theory sites that have contemplated who is desguised as whom can now give it a rest to some degree. The triangle love affair is completed and Rand wont have to mummble "unfair" under his breath anymore... and Matt... I have spent 4 years wondering about him and blammo... He is the man. Anyway... you can bag on Jordan all you want, but the man writes a damn fine book.
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Summary: Waiting for the Wheel to Turn? Keep waiting!
Review: Unlike the mantra of the series, the Wheel seems to have stopped turning for the last three books. I don't know about other readers, but I'm getting pretty frustrated with plot lines that are dragged out over multiple books just to continue the series. I think the last three books could EASILY have been condensed into one book but... As for the threads of the Wheel that are twisted in this book...surprisingly, there ARE answers to some of the burning, unresolved questions from the last two books (who is that masked man? Who is that short woman with...'huge tracts of land', Osangar's Randland identity, etc.). And some of Min's visions do come true...as well as her spouting off more random gibberish (stop with the forshadowing all ready and just have things happen!). However, for all the threads that are finally tied together...some just come out in one big tangled knot (ie the end of the book....while very cool, was very frustrating: just WTF was Rand doing besides channelling??) And some are just plain sappy (you'll know which part). I've said it before and I'll say it again....it's time for some superfluous characters to die. Separate the wheat from the chaff before Tar'mon Gaidon! (If it hasn't already happened). =)
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Summary: Please don't die before you finish the series, Robert!
Review: Is it just me or is the series stretching longer and longer? At the rate of Path of Daggers we'll all be long dead before Robert Jordan or anyone else choosen to write the rest of the series will finish. However, I might as well try to avoid a weave of Complusion as stop reading this addictive series. The characters seem to be lifelong friends of everyone that reads the book, and places and events and history are so rich that you would believe that Robert Jordan used to live there. I just hope he will finish before he is dead.
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Summary: golly gee willikers
Review: durn that robert j. fer wratin so meny buks! this'n will be 10, an then ol Billie M. is gonna hafta get hisself somethin else to count on! this buk has them SORDs innit, which y'all yankees use to chop one tother up. boy oh, not ah shotgun, but it does the trick if'n y'all know what i mean! see, this robby j. wrat's 'bout folks a riled up over Scratch comin' back, jes laek the Rev does on Sun. but y'all yankees doan prey laek us folks, stead y'all get them SORDS outta yer closit an start yellin an hollerin somthin FIERCE. an somma y'all's weminfolk start usin that there majik tu. an scratch, He's not to keen on alla that so he starts blastin an cursin' uppa storm on y'all. Fortunatelly, y'all gotta good ole boy name RAND an he's not takin it lyin down, no ser. He -n- his buds gotta whole lotta SORDS an they ain't fraid to use 'em, y-know. so he -n- scratch have been wrasslin uppa storm fer bout TEN whole buks now, an boy it jess seems to be gettin started. robbie j., he kin give ol Rev. a run fer long sermon's, yessiree! So y'all reed this'n now, it'll be a hoot 'cause ol RAND, he's got a big ol SORD in this'n tu!
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Summary: good but when it will it end
Review: First of fans won't be disappointed. This was a good book. But its becoming obvious that Jordan is needlessly perpetuating the series. I mean, cmon, RJ just get it over with already. I feel fortunate that I didn't start reading this series until book six came out. As such I've only been waiting for ending now for about six years. At the rate you going I'll be in a rest home and you'll probably be dead before you finish. If your not going to pick up the pace of writing the books then do us a favor and finish the series already. Your making it hard to pick up new fans because how many are not going to be daunted at having to read 5000 pages just to get caught up and your annoying long time fans by making us wait for years between volumes.
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Summary: Let's Rally Around the flag!
Review: Looks like the diehard Robert Jordan fans, afraid for the series after the absolute BS that was books 7 and 8, finally have something to rally around. Thats because this book is actually better than Path of Daggers! Yes! Unfortunately its not much better. Why has this series turned to mud after book5, it started out with so many fans. Now the only people left going are those who are thrilled to hear that Nynaeve still tugs her hair when angry. The book is worth half a star, really (half a star more than Path of Daggers). It actually brings some major plotlines NEAR conclusion (i.e. Kinslayer) but Jordan is still dragging things out. Looks like the only reason the series is so drawn out is because Jordan wants to build up the suspense. Wow, Rand is hearing things again, there's a new one. Will he go mad? No one knows, and probably wont for a Long Long time. He seems perfectly sane apart from this occasional 'voice-hearing' thrown in. Apart from that there is STILL no major theme building! Its like a history book of Randland. with some decorations. The female characters apart from Min are as annoying as ever, and as badly drawn as ever. The Aes Sedai are STILL up to their dumb schemes. Can't ANYONE get along in this world? The people who hate the Dark One haven't yet decided to actually FIGHT him instead of just talk. And its book 9. Well, if you're a crazy Jordan fan (and I know some) then yea you'll probably love this book, its only a little better than Book8. But if you were really disappointed by the books after Book5, then don't bother. Don't put yourself through the pain.
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Summary: {insert witty title here}
Review: While I don't read many novels, This series has kept me glued. I see a lot of mixed reviews. Some claim Jordan is long winded and has too many plot twists. Those twists keep the story entertaining. I just love the way he made his own little vocabulary. Like I said, i don't read much, but this book is difficult to put down.
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Summary: Some people have read a different book than I own.
Review: I've been reading the Wheel of Time series since the summer of 1990 when I was introduced to it by a close friend. Having read most of the "Names" in fantasy up till then and disliked many of them due to simplistic plots and characterization, I found Robert Jordan to be refreshing. Each year and then every other year I have awaited the release of the next volume of the series. I agree that Path of daggers was not the best book in the series, though not as poorly written as many make it out once the epectation of a two year wait has subsided. But overall these books have been fantastic as far as characterization, realism of politics, and general mythic quality, much more so than the ridiculous and often pathetic offerings from others in this genre. And to those of you who continue to say the series is running too long I must say - Get an attention span! So what if the series take 20 years from start to finish.Just because you are used to instant gratification from television doesn't mean RJ should wrap this up in some fashion so you can forget about it. I am perfectly happy to allow him the time to finish the story as intended. I only gave the book a 3 star review because I have only read the first 80 pages or so and am reserving judgement until I have finshed. But I wanted to tell the fans reading the review that Mat is definitely in this book and the review that states otherwise must have been written by someone on crack. I know this because I flipped through the book looking for his symbol at the chapter headings. There seems to be numerous chapters with his symbol or where he was mentioned. Yes, I peeked so sue me.
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