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Summary: Please, just get on with it!!!!
Review: I have to agree with most of the previous reviews on this book. Whilst the first 4 or 5 in the series were very good, ever since then the books have just been more padding and less story. The characters have become continuingly 1 dimensional, the female characters especially. (While they appear to be strong willed, all they ever seem to do is complain about the men, and compare how low cut their dresses are.) As you progress through to the end of this book you realize that while the book is close to 1000 pages long, the whole books' story line could have been compressed down to about 30. We are continuingly waiting for something to happen.Based on the reading of the 7th and 8th books I was unsure whether to buy this book, but I did more to continue on with a series I initially enjoyed. I am now telling my friends not to bother buying it, just go to a bookstore, pick it off the shelf and read the last 50 pages. They are the only ones with anything actually in them.
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Summary: Can't wait for book 10!
Review: This was by far one of the best fantasy novels I have ever read. Robert Jordan makes this very realistic. When I was reading it I was wondering if something like this really could have happened in another time or another place. The books have a very large cast of important characters. There's a lot of bickering, bantering, politics. You will hate some of the characters and love some of the others. Winter's Heart is a large book but that shouldn't be an excuse of not buying/reading. It goes by quick and you will be relunctant to put it down. It is that good. I read this book in three days!
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Summary: Many Books in One - Stay focused Jordan!
Review: I read this book again, mostly for lack of anything else to read - I realized that I remembered nothing in the past 3 or 4 books in the series, and thought maybe my attention was too poor and skipped many important parts. I read it again, and this time I did not search for chapters with the word "Rand" in it. I found the other characters seperate plots to be enjoyable, but alltogether UNCONNECTED - if your in the series for Rand you have no need to read most of the chapters (while he is the main character and the selling point of the books, only a couple chapters include him; the rest are about one of his girl/friends little problems with power/loved one) It is like reading a collection of short stories. JORDAN WOULD IMPROVE WITH MORE CONNECTION - put the characters together or somthing; many readers complain because they like Rand and get all these tales that have nothing to do with the main plot. You will go from reading about Rand smashing buildings the next chapter begins with Faile talking to some woman. It takes alot of patience not to curse and just skip to the next chapter to find out what happens to Rand (some 15 chapters later at times). He should probably just write about Rand and what he hears about his friends, until they meet him. Do separate books on the other characters or somthing; also, Jordan wants us to like all his characters, and he puts characteristics on them that he likes; good, but when there are many main characters, we find them all moving towards an ideal man/woman that is in his mind, and thus very similar - he needs to vary them. Maybe he should look for other likeable characteristics and tag them onto them - one may be quiet and one loud, one quick to anger one patient etc. Its fairly simple, but all characters seem to be very closely related, the most radical are Min and Mat, and even then they are moving towards each other- In the end I like the ideas (forsaken, channeling, angreal, etc) but there are flaws in the book structure and characters. If he used all those thousands of pages on one main topic (Rand?) these would be very good, but I feel as if I'm reading many books mixed together - he just needs focus!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: An otherwise tolerable installment in Jordan's once-great Wheel of Time series has been ruined by exactly one character: Cadsuane. If you thought Jordan's women were annoying in previous books, you will probably despise Cadsuane. I was hoping that Rand would balefire her or at least show her how to treat the Dragon Reborn. Unfortunately, Rand, in a stunning (and, in my opinion, extremely out-of-character) move continues to accept her abuse. The other women in the book haven't changed from being annoying and ludicrously hypocritical, either. This trend throughout the series has always detracted from its epic atmosphere, and in Winter's Heart it is simply unbearable. I would love to finish the series, but I cannot bear to read such "tainted" books. I will always wonder what compelled the author to give the vast majority of the women in his books such characters.
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Summary: Treading water
Review: Blood and bloody ashes, 766 pages of treading water! Mr. Jordan needs to get an editor (perhaps a life). It is somewhat mind boggling that this volume received such high praise by the majority of reviewers. Note to newbies to Wheel of Time: You can skip this volume without missing much of substance and hope that Jordan actually writes something worth reading next time.
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Summary: An amazing novel
Review: There is much to say about this book and Jordan's entire Wheel of Time Series. First, I will say this. Winters Heart does not contain the same passion and fervor I found in the first book. I have now read the series twice. Each time, after reading the first book, I cannot get enough. I finish the first three books feeling Jordan has composed a masterfull series. Looking back at the past six novels, I think Jordan has slowed the pace of his novels and changed his characters personalities so that the series has lost some of its original flair. If you have read the Path of Daggers, then I encourage you to read Winters Heart, which is a much better novel. Winters Heart reminds me of the Brothers Karamazov. An interesting beginning, a great finish, and a necessary but boring middle. How Elayne secures the throne of Andor does not play a huge role in this Last Battle plot. Of the major plots Jordan weaves, this one seemed boring in Winters Heart. I enjoyed reading about the developments concerning Perrin, Mat and Rand, but Elayne bored me and Egwene was hardly mentioned. The way Jordan develops multiple plots allows for multiple climaxs throughout the novel. In Winter's Heart Jordan takes full advantage of his style. He leaves you hanging with Perrin's, Mat's, and Elayne's situations, and I admit, the final pages concerning Elayne sparked my interest. The parts of the novel concerning Rand were very intense and suspenseful. If you are reading the reviews for this book, you have probably read the previous eight books. In that case, buy this book, read it, and you will enjoy yourself.
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Summary: I enjoyed it. The WOT series still impresses me.
Review: The Wheel of Time is the first epic fantasy series I ever read. I came in late, so I got to go through the first eight books uninterrupted. It was about a two year wait between Path of Daggers and Winter's Heart. During that time, I've started or completed a few other fantasy series. Before starting Winter's
Heart, I wondered if I would still find Jordan's writing and the story as interesting and fantastic as I did before, or would I find that I've turned into one of the detractors who've grown weary of the series. Well overall, I really enjoyed the book and still consider Jordan one of the best I've ever read. There wasn't a single page in the book that bored me or felt unnecessary. Most of this book appears to be Jordan putting the pieces in place for some powerful stuff to happen next (I suspect that the battle to take over the White Tower will be a major part of the next book).
Nothing astoundingly dramatic really happens until the very end of this book. But that doesn't mean that the manuevering and plotting that occurs throughout the rest of the book was uninteresting. I'm still enjoying WOT, and am eagerly looking forward to the next book in the series.
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Summary: Great series but I hate to wait !
Review: A welcome return to the series after a long wait for number 9. It was VERY good to see Mat again, as he's brought some life back into the story line. I was a little disappointed that Jordan stranded Perrin and never looked in on him again, but I expect he knows where he's going. I am still waiting for Moirane, as it is so obvious she will turn up one day. As for all the Forsaken being part of a huge transmigration program, can we please have some information on this? I can't be the only person completely swamped. One thing that must be a sure-fire sign of a good writer is that I was nearly at the end and hadn't noticed how much I had read. As an aspiring writer, I demand to know how he does that. I must agree with another reviewer, there are too many characters, and I can't remember Teslyn from Tylin, or Merilille from Myrelle, but all the important people are still there. I'm hoping book 10 will be getting towards wrapping the whole thing up, as I am beginning to feel he just wants to string it out as long as possible. Yes books take as long as they need to tell a story and not a letter less, but that doesn't mean the plot can walk in circles for ages. I would like to know what happened to Egwene at the White Tower, and what's happened to Perrin, and there is a strange lack of Trollocs.... I have recently started a new series called Swords of Life and Death. The first book The Price of Immortality was like nothing I have read before but again I find myself waiting for the sequel. huh, oh well. hopefully C.M. Whitlock will churn them out faster than Jordan.
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Summary: Good but will it ever end..
Review: This is better than the 7th and 8th book. I think the publishers are making him milk this thing till there is no money left in the series. He keeps adding more and more characters until I have to go back and reread books just to keep up with everything. While I do like the details and the development of sidecharacters <are there any main characters??> I think Tad Williams does a better job of it and in fewer pages.
Mr.Williams managed to wrap up the Dragonbone Chair series and The Otherland series in the time Mr Jordan has taken to definitely NOT finish this one. But I admit I am so hooked on this I have to keep reading it to find out what happens to my *favorite* characters. <ie the ones introduced in the first two books.>
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Summary: In this era of instant everything.....
Review: I've grown so tired of reading all the bad reviews about the last 3 or 4 Jordan books, depending on the review writer. In this era of instant everything, these readers(I can't call them fans) seem to need to complain about the slow pacing of the more recent Jordan books. I understand some points of their frustration waiting 2 years for a book(as opposed to the earlier books which were usually a year apart)and not getting the complete fix they were expecting whether it be enough action or character coverage, but what hooked me from book 1(which I picked up new when it first came out)is the complete attention to details and the slow methodical maturing and growth of all the characters which includes the world itself.One thing to keep in mind is that although the 10th book is on it's way all the books add up to one outstanding story on a completely believable world with characters that you hunger for more info on and wish the best for.
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