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Summary: I laughed. I cried. It was better than Cats!
Review: This book is obviously one of the greatest collections of words ever set to the page. You are doing yourself a great disservice if you don't immediately buy several copies of this literary labour of love by Mr. Jordan. The characters have finally become everything we wanted them to be, and the plotline keeps you on the edge of your seat with its labyrinthine twists and turns! In a word, "Godlike".
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Summary: Shadowon
Review: This series is an extremely indepth one, with exceptional descriptions about characters, places and cultures. It develops characters, plot and history to a wonderful degree and takes you on a vastly enjoyable epic adventure. All of these books have some slow times, most books do, so persevere and it will be worth it in the end. This last book was as good as the rest, and is a wonderful tale with high adventure, good plot twists, and a great slate of characters. It is definitely worth reading. The whole series is.
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Summary: What a tiresome book!
Review: Robert Jordan is just too long winded for me. I enjoyed the first six books, but lately, especially with this last book, it is just not fun anymore. Unless you are obsessed with the Wheel of Time series, go spend your money on something better and more tightly written books. All the characters continue to whine and nothing ever really happens (...). Read the first six books and skip the rest until he decides to finally end this long winded series that rambles on and on and on and on. LIGHT, what a bore!
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Summary: Winter's Heart
Review: I loved Winter's Heart. Many people claimed it to be sub-par; that the series is gradually downgrading. While I agree that the past few books were definitely not the best in the series, The Wheel of Time is still rolling, and Robert Jordan has yet to prove to me that his ideas are running out. The ending of Winter's Heart may not have been a surprise, and was indeed a long-awaited and expected part of the plot, but there were many twists of the plot and sub-plot that tied up loose ends. The novel was just as compelling and full of intrigue as most of the rest of the series, and I have no doubt that the next book will far surpass all the previous ones in scope and imagination. Few other epic fantasy series have caused me so many sleepless nights in bed, and I have no doubt that it will continue to do so.
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Summary: 'Don't Waste Your Time' or 'Can't Get A Pulse'
Review: Stay away from this book and the series. The first four books were entertaining enough to make many loyal readers stick with the series through five volumes of gradually worsening dialogue, annoying descriptions and a convoluted plot. By now, we are numb to the characters and don't care if they live or die. I am hoping we start seeing some useless background characters die sometime soon. The lack of personality or intelligence on behalf of the main characters and villains is annoying. These people are very powerful, but they are not very interesting or smart. If you do start reading, don't expect well executed characterization, but do be prepared for stock characters. The characters don't do anything but complain. The females are overindulgent and whining, the men are spineless and argumentative. Through it all, the differences between genders are repeatedly hammered into our heads in every other word. For a series that is supposed to play off gender differences, the latter books fall flat on their face. Mr. Jordan should take a writing and editing workshop. Some books he might want to read to get a better idea on how to be write without being boring are: The Mists of Avalon
The Fionavar Tapestry
Tigana
Shogun The series has taken so long to get nowhere that reading through it is more like slow torture than an enjoyable experience. If his characters would actually do something besides sit on their respective thrones and wallow in arrogance, the plot might actually get somewhere. I would give it no stars, but one star is the lowest I can go.
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Summary: All Filler and no Plot make RJ a dull boy
Review: A big problem with this series is a lack of rationality and personality in the characters. Through 9 books and the lord knows how many pages of paper, it seems that the lessons normal people would learn over time are wasted on the WoT lot. In addition, since all the main female characters (excepting Moiraine and possibly Verin) were obviously stock characters and/or foils for Rand, Mat and Perrin, the result is a noticeable lack of a female point of view in a series that relies so heavily on gender differences. I am not going to comment on the females in the stories. Most of them are just repeating the same motions and behavioral quirks they had in the start of the series. At this point, we are so numb to them that we don't even care when Nynaeve learns to channel. And with the 50 characters stronger in the Power than she is anyway, there is nothing particularly special about her either. Needless to say, the loss of Moiraine was a tremendous blow to the female cast, and the only one we see approaching some level of development is Egwene. And the whole Ebou Dari philosophy of beat your man was another point of disgust. Mr. Jordan should take some time and read Ursula K. Leguin's works. Hopefully he'll get a clue that women don't enjoy browbeating each other as a matter of course. In addition, most of the male characters occupy a score somewhere between perpetual victim to pathetic. There is no forward movement with the men either, and when they sit around with the women and complain for 100 pages straight, even the most ardent Mat supporter gets tired. Rand is boring, Perrin is boring. With no strong female leads, the series relies on the males, and the only entertaining one in the bunch is Mat. And Lan, if you go in for a lack of emotional responsiveness. This lack of direction in characters correllates to a lack of direction in plot. With no character taking the reins and getting something done, the plot drags and has been dragging for about four straight books now. R. Jordan perhaps should start realizing that time in which nothing happens to one character should best be spent with another character, rather than cutting characters from entire books in favor of 300 pages of descriptions of clothing, various minor characters (who at times seem more important than the main characters themselves) and political plotting. We don't really need to see what some random maid thinks of some random lord for a whole chapter just to introduce a sub-plot into the book. If you are going to load tons of sub plots into the book, please don't spend more time than is necessary to flesh it out. It detracts from the main story and ruins the dramatic effect of the event itself. Mr. Jordan, could you please give us surprises in less then 1000 pages? Jesus, by the time I heard that Faile was being marched around in the snow, I began to hope that this would thin the ranks of minor characters a bit more. She's so boring, she should be shoved into the snow and left to die. She's Saldaean. She's used to it. And toss the rest of the cast in there with her as well.
On to the villains. Oops, there is nothing to say because they are all the same traditional 'I'm bad and I know it' character. The Forsaken are boring us. Either make Rand and the main characters less powerful or give new enemies IQ tests before hiring them. In fact, I would like to put together a book list for Jordan to read: The Mists of Avalon, Shogun and The Fionavar Tapestry. My only advice is stay far away from this series. Go to the library/bookstore, read the last chapter and leave. You won't miss a thing.
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Summary: Yawn, Yawn, Yawn
Review: Along with the previous reviewers, I enjoyed the first few books. Although even then their were irritating bits such as the endless repetition of how women don't understand men and vice versa. This seems to crop up in every other thought the main characers have. Also Mat, Perrin and Rand continualy wishing they knew as much about women as the other two. What carried this series initially was a well thought out world with lots of different societies and cultures. While this was being fleshed out along with the characters of the main protagonists it kept my interest. By the end though, new bits are being thrown in that serve no purpose. What is the True Power as opposed to the one power? What was the point of the Dark Lord causing the drought other than to squeeze another two books out of the series with the quest for the bowl of winds? What was the tall Myrddral for and why was he different to the others? Finally, the story limps to a conclusion that could have been achieved immediately after Rand reached Ruithean where the access keys were located. This series badly needed a good editor to cut it down to five books rather than nine.
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Summary: C-SPAN meets the light
Review: Jordan is unfortunately out of control of his series. As has been true for the last 3 books, I found myself skimming whole pages of descriptive text, searching for anything that appeared to be plot movement. The political and palace intrigues are better done on C-SPAN, and major plot threads are simply dropped. If you're a series fan (and you need to be to even read this review), save yourself a lot of time by checking this book out of the library and reading the last 3 chapters. You don't need to do anything more until the next book.
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Summary: Yet another diamond in the case.
Review: Well, well. Mr Jordan is back. Personally, I disagree with those who think the books are getting worse as they develop. Indeed, book eight seemed to be "weak" considering the rest, but it is unfair to judje him only by this book. Anyway, book nine is very good and it ties off more plots than most think. Yes, it opens some, too, but would anyone prefer whole books to be nothing more than plot-tiers? Many have not understood that he IS going to write many books, and not for profit. I write a little myself(mostly poetry, though) and if I ever undertook a work of Mr Jordan's scale, I'd never consider twelve books enough. RJ is not without flaws, though, the biggest being the continual strife between male and female. I understand this is a world view(you can observe the excellent work he has done depicting this view in the saidin - saidar mechanism) but he is more often than not lowering it from a philosophical level to... I can't describe it. One last thing. Please try to read the poetry behind RJ's books. Not the poems, the One Poem this novel consists of. Try hard, and the Wheel of Time will find a special place in your heart.
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Summary: The things he does
Review: I see people talking about how the Wheel OF Time has turned into a money making exercise. And I disagree.
Robert Jordan long ago set out to write a EPIC fantasy series. And he's doing a bang up job. All of his former followers, think for a moment. Do you really want him to finish the series with the next book?. Seriously. Think about it. I, for one, woould be very disapointed if he did. The Last battle should at least take up 2 books. And think of all the Prophecy he has written. If he doesn't take the time to deal with it I KNOW all you readers will be disapointed.
I do agree with you that books 7 and 8 were a little boring. Obviously not the best in the series. But still good.
The perfect number two end on would be 13. 13 books.
Think of how sweet that would be.
This means that
a)the next few books will be action packed.
b)it means the series will be just the right length
and c) just think about it. 13. Think of all the importance the number 13 has in the series (13 forsaken). Onwards to PROPHECIES OF THE DRAGON
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