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Summary: Can I have the Cliff Notes please?
Review: What abosulte crap. Characters as shallow as a daytime soap, meaningless dialogue, absent characters... should I continue???No author of any credit needs to "Build Up" characters for 5 books! The scene at the end of the book is analgous to a starving man getting a cracker-- best meal you will ever have... but still, just a cracker. Anyone who compares this to Tolkein is an idiot. Really. You should use Amazon's CRM system to the fullest and check off "this review NOT helpful" to anyone who gave more than 2 stars-- in this manner you can weed the morons out of your book recommendations.
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Summary: A great and horrible series
Review: I would like to start out by informing that I love and hate this author. "Why?" you say? Because he torments us time and time again. I'm not really qualified to judge the quality of his writing from an experts point of view, but from reading my share of books I have come to this conclusion: This is a unique author! In contrast to some of the other reviewers who has followed this series for (seemingly) decades I was given my first book three months ago. This has been my LEAST productive three months of my life. But it also gave me an interesting perspective of the books and the way they are writen. 1) The main plot is epic. And the Author has been able to give the readers (that's me...and hopefully you) the impression of a alive world populated by dynamic characters. Even though the portraying of the characters (especially the female ones) seems at times to be lacking. He is still is able to pull through and ends up with a world that is belivable. 2) Subplots are plentyfull and diversed. What I like about them is the way they make every one of the characters seem more alive by giving them goals and history. 3) There has been a few critical coments of his "cut&paste" writing style. The way it is done leaves no doubt that the author chose that style for effect. Even though it can seem longwinded at times it enhaces the ritualistic and symbolic value of the "moments". 4) There is a definatly slow pace in the last couple of books in the serie. The level of detail is HUGE! The glossary is handy but you still strugle to remember details and names from a couple of books ago. The most frustrating thing is not the amount of plot details, but the 5-page description of braclets a 15-sec character is wearing. (I know, I know...builds character...but it's a bit excessive at times) As conclusion I would like to warn you. Don't by this book unless you are willing to "retire" from the real world for a copule of. If you are then I would suggest that you buy the book, close the drapes, call your boss and claim to have a higly contagious disease...then enter one of the most compelling universes ever created and ejoy.
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Summary: Quickly, while were still young!!
Review: This series will never end. It goes on, and on, and on, and on...Opps! Now I'm doing it. The content is a continuing re-hash. What started out as an interesting series has been exploited by page stuffing, cut and paste authorship until the glow has been completely erradicated by this effort at milking extra dollars from loyal fans. Too bad, Robert Jordan once had me as a fan but this is too much...will it take 10, 12 or even 15 books before the publisher lets him out of this overdone dollar game he has been in? It reminds me of "Friday the 13th - part 13". If they bought the last one, let's sell the 10 more like it with a fresh coat of paint. Would someone please bring in Reader's Digest to condense this series down to 3 novels?
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Summary: Four and a Half Revisited/More R.Jordan Support
Review: I have already stated why I liked this book in the other reviews I have written so I will not waste the time of my co-reveiwers on that. What I would like to point out is that while Mr. Jordan seems to be taking a very long time to finish the series, it has in fact been less time than it took Pr. Tolkien to write the Lord of the Rings. I think when all is said and done, many if not most of us, that have come to the opinion that the series is too long will be grateful for its length. After all, the only flaw that every one agreed upon in the Lord of the Rings was that it was too short. Mr. Jordan originally intended this to be a six book series. I would not be surprised if it reached twelve and I am expecting thirteen. After all, that number is signifigant through out the series. Does this mean that he is riding a cash cow? No. Mr. Martin had the same thing happen while he was writing A Song of Ice and Fire. Originally that was intended to be a trilogy, and now he is aiming for a six book series. I understand everyones frustration. I am impatient for the next installments myself and even I have to admit that the Tanchio sequence grated on my nerves for a bit, and that some of the detail involving the heroines is long winded. Please remember, Mr.Jordan is as male as half the rest of humanity. I have often found that authors of one gender have difficulty portraying characters of the other, and in my attempts at writing I have trouble with it myself. Mr. Jordan's female characters are no where near as bad as others I have read (or attempted to write, I must admit). The other complaint, that of the series length, comes from the fact that this is the first fantasy series I have ever heard of that has depth of this magnitude. Simply put, we as readers are impatient because we are used to less-in-depth and therefore almost always, less quality ficton. Nothing I have read before is of this quality and depth: not Misters Donaldson, Herbert, and Salvatore and certainly not Mr. Forstchen or Mr. Saberhagen's berserker or book of swords series. Only the Silmarillion was as complicated as the Wheel of Time and that book was a single volume simply because it was an overview and not, strictly speaking, telling a story. I still would recommend this series unto any reader, along with The Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire. One thing all of us agree upon: at least Mr. Jordan kept this series from being too short.
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Summary: great book
Review: i love the wheel of time series. they are a peice of art, i have read the series 4 times. the series is the best i have ever read and i have read quite alot of books. the only problem is that it takes forever for the next book to come out. other then that the wheel of time series is totaly the best book series you'll ever lay eyes on.
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Summary: Ugh. Editor needed, please
Review: Since Jordan's editor at TOR is his wife, I'm not surprised with the low ratings he's engendering these days. I'm one person who won't read Jordan ever again. I stopped with the last book and am glad I did, to read the reviews here. Try George RR Martin, folks, or Glen Cook, Robin Hobb, Guy Gavriel Kay (the REAL master) and Sean Russell.
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Summary: Looking up again
Review: UNlike some of the previous works in this series, this one contains very little filler. Major plot turns happen regularly, and no characters are utterly forgotten. However, it's simply not as strong as the early books in the series were, though it's a considerable improvement over those immediately before it.
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Summary: Getting a little too long.
Review: I love fantasy books as much as the next guy but this is getting a little long. At near 1000+ pages for each one of Jordan's books, it is getting hard for those of us with limited amounts of time to read and reread each of his books every time a new one comes out. Winter's Heart is a nice breath of fresh air after Path of Daggers and Crown of Swords. Why? you ask. Because there is plot movement. Mat Cauthon returns in this book after being absent for Path of Daggers.
Let me put it this way. If you have already read the other 8 you should read this book. But if you haven't read any of them yet, do some soul searching and decide if you want to read what is totaling as of book 9 at over 10,000 pages.
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Summary: Finally!
Review: The series is at last starting to feel climatical. Rand and company overcome (or at least it seems that way) a pivotal antagonist while further evolving in character. A lot of the questions I had have been answered, to some extent, in this latest chapter. My only problem lies in the first few chapters that deal with Perrin's plight; an outcome is never reached. The book is amazing though.
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Summary: Great plot bad women characters
Review: The plot is very complex and so intertwined with the rest of the series that you'll wish you had taken notes in the first eight books. Some of the scenes in Winter's Heart are mysterious and dark, others are beyond awsome and filled with light like the battle at the end of the book. A central message in the Wheel of Time series is that men can't understand women and women can't understand men. This theme is well supported by Robert Jodan's shallow women. He dosen't understand women at all. The only characteristics in most of his women are: lust, anger, moodiness, pride and empathy. There are a few exeptions to this like Anida and Egwene. In contrast his men typically make very deep, interesting, and complex characters. Not to mention they are more insiteful and intelligent. I think that the best characters in this series are Mat, Perin, and Fain. Overall this book is great. Other books I recomend reading are The Chronicles of Narnia, This Present Darkness, and The Cavern of Black Ice.
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