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Summary: What Went Wrong
Review: OK, this is where I have to part with the series. The problems with the series have far outweighed its original appeal. Here are just a few that I feel compelled to describe:1. Jordan isn't getting paid by the word anymore, he's being paid by the page. There are far less words in this book than previous ones, yet there are just as many pages. It would have been 1/2 the length of Book I if the font had been the same size. And they still charge us the same price for less book (much less). 2. The main problem with his stories is that Jordan is stretching his books out to these boring "One climax per book" stories. Remember in TEotW when things happened? First the Trollocs, then the chase, then Shadar Logoth, then the split story lines, etc. At the pace the story moves at now, each episode of TEofW would have been mangled into an entire book. Getting out of Emond's Field would have been almost 2 books, with the attack as one, and the chase to the ferry as Book 2. Now one thing happens in the entire book, usually in the last 50 pages. 3. The length of time between each book is way too long to remember or continue to care about each character. I don't mind waiting for books, but keeping track of all these interchangeable people with interchangeable names is impossible. 4. Actually, the only way I remember the story lines is by coming here and reading the reviews. They can't put a paragraph summary on the back of the book, since there isn't a paragraph worth of plot to speak of. But a brief synopsis at the beginning of the book or an enlarged glossary would be nice. 5. Everything everyone else has said about the constant "braid pulling" and irritating females and idiotic males is also true. I can't say anything about it that hasn't been said before, so I won't. That's all I feel worth writing now. I made it more than 500 pages, but I just couldn't care about Harine or Cadsuane or Far Madding anymore. Hearing about Elayne's politics or what's flowing through each character's bonds for the tenth time in as many pages isn't enough to keep my attention anymore.
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Summary: The Wheel Turns....
Review: I enjoy reading the Wheel of Time, over and over. The latest installment is no exception. While many feel the books have been slowing down I disagree. I like the way Mr. Jordan is taking the time to tell the whole story. While I am tired of waiting for the next book, I find that when I re-read the first nine that I find something new each time. Most excellent reading! Mr. Jordan is to be commended for doing what only one other author has been able to do, create a world that is as real as the one we are in! J.R.R.T. was the first, there has finally been a second. Good reading.
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Summary: Make it Stop...
Review: I used to like this series. It had enough going for it to be interesting over many thousands of pages. But I suspect Mr. Jordan is now building a grand house, or buying a boat, or breeding racehorses or something that requires an awful lot of cash. Your cash and my cash. Cash that only the pointless extension of the series can provide. (In this 700 pages we learn what Rand had for breakfast and how bad Aiel are very bad indeed. And yeah, some other stuff, but not much.) I also suppose that I keep expecting the characters to mature. Maybe this is a function of the years and years of real world time that have passed in the writing of the series, while the average 800 pages covers about 6 weeks or so, book time. And yes, I can hear that whiny "Just stop reading it if you don't like it! Just put it down, man, don't rain on my triteness parade." But, hey, I've invested several days of my life reading this thing, so I still want to see how it comes out, even if it has turned to an apalling waste of innocent wood pulp.
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Summary: Good book
Review: I really liked this book. I thought the series was heading downhill, perhaps getting a little boring, but this one really reinvigorated my interest.
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Summary: EEEEEEEEAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!! Get ON With It, Already!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Like many other readers, I was blown away by the first few books. The complex world Jordan has built as welll as the development of the smaller group of characters from the Two Rivers had me waiting for each subsequent book to come out.
But like a lot of others, I've become very disappointed with the tediousness of this series as of late. I've begun to wonder if Jordan is stalling the arrival of Tarmon Gai'don because he can't quite figure out how to do it. Jordan can surely write but let's face it, to write an apocalypse isn't all that easy. With all the secondary plotlines and characters he has developed along the way, he could be wracking his brains out trying to tie them all together, all the while writing "filler".
Or maybe something is happening in Robert Jordan's personal life (i.e.: an illness, loss of a loved one, etc.) that is causing him to lose focus on this series. If that is the case, he should stop writing and take care of himself because that's much more important than the continuation of any book series.
It could also be that since we've paid for his kids to go to college with the previous books in the series, he's now trying to set up a college fund for his great-grandkids by stretching out this series beyond all reason. Seriously, I found myself skipping whole sections of chapters dealing with various character's internal worryings (mainly Nynaeve's endless bitching about men and Elayne's endless bitching about men and almost every female character's bitching about men). And from reading other reviews about this book, I'm not alone in this. SIDE NOTE: Robert Jordan seems to think strong female characters have to be perpetually foul-tempered and be willing to hit male characters when their tempers boil over (imagine the outcries if the genders were reversed in these situations). Nynaeve's crabbiness was almost interesting for the first few books, but this got painfully old very quickly. That's a lot of "maybe"s to try to figure out why a series started off so brilliantly but is now almost a chore to read.
The thing is, one shouldn't have to try to figure out this particular problem when reading any series of books. The enjoyment is either there or it's not and in this case, the enjoyment has faded big-time.
If I ever decide to read the rest of this series (and that's a big "if"), I'm going to check it out from my local library. I'm not spending any more money on Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time.
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Summary: The best WOT book Jordan has turned out in awhile...
Review: The last few books in the series has been pretty unsatisfying, but Winter's Heart brings the WOT back, with gusto! Something finally happens, which is more than one can say for the others, and the ending makes logical sense with the rest of story, also a feature I'd missed. I hope this is a trend that keeps on going!
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Summary: Get to the point.
Review: When I first discovered The Wheel of Time, I devoured the series - pounding down every book that was out at the time. And I have jumped on each new installment as it has become available. I have to agree with those many who feel that Jordan has become somewhat mired in the tale. The world he has built is AMAZING! However, he's spread across so much of it that it takes half of each book for him to work at getting us back up to speed. This and the fact that the last few books have been rightly criticized for nearly ignoring one or more characters underscores the feeling that each book now bites off too much. Not only is the world huge, but the many characters are scattered throughout it, pursuing so very many subplots that to treat the development of each would be work better suited to at least two separate books/series. I'll definitely keep buying the books as they come. Jordan's story is far too enticing for me not to want to see where it goes. But, for what little my opinion on it is worth, I'd like to see the threads of the characters' lives get back together so that the pattern can drive toward - if not eventually reach - the tremendous end so long hinted at.
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Summary: gotta love RJ
Review: It seems there are two kinds of RJ fans: The kind who think he's getting worse with each new book, and the kind who think he's improving as he goes. I must point out that even fans who are getting sick of him ARE still addicted.
While I don't necessarily think he's improving, I don't think he's getting worse, either. My least favorite book was the hook book, Eye of the World, which failed to impress me until at least halfway through. Then my favorite was the second one- The Great Hunt- which made me a loyal fan. Now the series is turning into a "Buffy-esque" soap opera, but I still love it.
But who am I speaking to? This is a review for book 9, so chances are whoever reads this is already a fan. ...
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Summary: Winters Heart: Robert Jordan
Review: Both interesting and descriptive The Wheel of Time is an enjoyable read for anyone of any age. Main characters Rand al'Thor, Mat Carthonon, and Perrin Araya show the struggle of men and woman, younger people and elders, and people with athority's anoyance with their subjects.
Winters heart is one of the most important books in the series. In it Rand al'Thor tries to cleans Sadin or the male half of the True sorce. The Seachan from across the ocean send a landing party with a ruler and the Arylim Seat, the most powerful position in the world, is filled with a girl.
In this strange world of fiction, where men and woman can control the forces which drive time, this story is believable and fun to read. The epic battles of the main characters fight the true sorce of evil. Can they stop it from breaking free of its ever weakening prision?
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Summary: Common now
Review: Jordan has proven himself as master of his work. The last few book of his have been slow but anybody worth half of their brain would recognize that Jordan is building the story up and setting up for Tarmon Gai'don. If you can't sit through it and soak everything up the 3rd or 4th time you read it, this story is not for you. Me, i love it
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