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Summary: ummmm
Review: things can only get worse.....if your still reading these books, do yourself a favour and find a series that actually goes somewhere.... starts off alright and ends in boredom
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Summary: Flying a Plane without Landing Gear
Review: I'm beginning to think that Mr. Jordan learned how to fly, but never learned how to land. Like everyone else, I've invested a serious amount of time reading this series. The first four books were very entertaining, books 5-7 were a snooze and caused me to QUIT reading any more. I just didnt have the time and felt wasting this much time in fantasy books was a childish. Looking to break boredom, I picked up again with 8 and must say that book 9 (Winter's Heart) was quite good, but reading the reviews for 10+, I dont think I'll continue until (IF) Jordan writes the FINAL installment, then I can make an educated guess if books 10-whatever are going to be worth my time. Jordan overuses detail and complexity to give his books an epic feel. However, this reader would rather him continue to develop the qualities of main characters and there relationships instead of inventing (literally hundred) of new characters who serve a minor purpose and are forgotten. Characters who were once central to the story have a cardboard feel (this includes most of the main characters). Quantity over quality is Jordan's mantra. If I could find some way to read the remaining books without BUYING any more I would, because I feel that Jordan is just milking the series for $$$. When he does finish the series, I'll see if I can get the books through a library. Yawn.
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Summary: Is there an end to all this?
Review: This book was better than some of the previous books but the same problem with the series exists - where or where is this all going? I think Jordan has forgotten that people like to read books that have an actual ending. Sure this is a series and we should all be grateful that he puts all the detail in the world that he does, but without an ending to this series I might as well spend my time with MY real world instead of this fictional one. This series is dragging on for so long that the real world is becoming more interesting and has more sense of closure. I wouldn't mind it so much if just ONE story line had an end. Instead, Jordan keeps adding characters and story lines like a child who is experimenting with cooking for the first time and thinks that the more ingredients you add the better the taste. It's been so long that I forget ALL the characters but I'm pretty sure only Moraine has died so far. It's so bad that I had to jog my memory to recall who Pain was when he made his reappearance. I suppose that when each book comes out we are expected to go back and review all the previous books so we can refresh our memories. This makes me wonder what kind of grip Jordan has on reality. Does he really think that most people have the time (or willpower) to go back and read all his books when a new one comes out? If he published one book a year I would probably be forced to spend all my reading time with just the WOT series.
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Summary: Time to put this dog to bed
Review: This series would have been one of the BEST fantasy series ever had Jordan kept it to 4 - or maybe 5 - books. He's no longer beating a dead horse - he's now beating the greasy spot where the horse used to be.
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Summary: Finally the action continues again
Review: In this book Jordan finally continues the great action that
has been in the first 3 books though it's not perfect as the first 3.
Here Perrin starts a voyage into the the snowy wilderness after his kidnapped wife, Mat finally meets the "Daughter of the 9 moons" and Rand creates a big change which almost kills him.
You can meet here all the famous politics from the previous
books plus some extra development. things are starting to move.
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Summary: Okay, time to cut some slack.
Review: Tightening the ropes are we? It seems like the average reader falls into a trend where they must review a book based on how the 1 out of thier 10 friends who actually did read it feels. This book? Was just as great as it's predeccessors. Jordan is a visionary, he captures every last detail, you always know what is going on, this is not an author that assumes the reader is of his level of intellect, he knows better then that. The irony to all this is the author, a Physicist from the Citadel, is writing a fantasy novel, and he does it so well that a few people are getting impatient to find out what the ending is! Don't tkae the length as discouragement, no these people aren't bored, they are enjoying it so much they wish he'd get to the point and the action! Nothing HAPPENED? Four countries have fallen into the hands of Rand Al'thor, Kings and Queens have been toppeled, the One Power has been literally reformed! And that was all BEFORE this book. The stage is set in this book, if you wish to be prepared for what I believe is the end of a brillant Decology, read this book and prepare. (Hey, if it's even longer, all the better!) I've only skimmed the surface, and appropriately I do this review at the newest book. Robert Jordan's world is rich in detail, filled with excitement, and most importantly... unlike any other world I have read or seen. Please, give this book a chance, read the opening chapters, and if you like it, read on!
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Summary: Tedious mediocrity on the installment plan
Review: I find it grimly ironic that I am given only 1,000 words to review a book that is thousands of pages long. The best way to characterize this book, and perhaps the series itself, would be to have a 700 page review laden with wacky "It Must Be Fantasy" words like t'angeral or Aes Sedai, or whatever else pops out when you mash your hand against the keyboard a few times. What were the other 999,999 monkeys doing that day? Such a review would also need to be filled with one-dimensional female characters that may be mild or assertive, but are always shrill, spend a lot of time with flashbacks and details like the buttons on Lord Haversham's butter-creme highlighted velvet damask afternoon undercoat and, after 59 chapters, end with a sputter. I'll try to keep it shorter. Jordan had it once, for a book or two. It was there for all to see. Then, like Lucas, he started to slip.. began to fancy himself an authority rather than a member of the gang like the rest of us. It was our duty to read the great works he deigned to cast before us like pearls before swine, just like it is apparently his editor's duty to never make a single change out of fear of losing the precious account. And here we are.. nine books along and no closer to the end. Tolkien's crown has long since slipped from Jordan's head and is rolling, tumbleweed-esque, towards the future and, hopefully, long-lived real heir. Winter's Heart, like the series itself, collapses rapidly under its own weight and tedium, like a violet-and-mother-of-pearl brocaded hoopskirt ballgown left in a downpour. Even the Bible is less preachy, and weighs in at a slender 2 books. Save yourself. Another good way to appreciate the aimlessness of this series is to take the last 6 books, randomly shuffle them, and read them in that random order. You will not be able to tell the difference.
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Summary: uhhh?!?
Review: Okay i see that some people are complaining about all this stuff about too long books and stuff and too much setting up...i myself stay almost every wakeing moment reading these books cause there deatil and description is better then any other book i have read and i actually have an idea as of whats GOING to happen...all this setting up stuff isnt all that bad i enjoy waiting for something it is actually more fun then getting it and i really dont want this series to end cause i enjoy reading them better then any other book...well maybe just cause i am easy to please..but stop being so picky about it cause all these bookz are good and are gonna have a very nice ending too it cause of this setting up
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Summary: Finally Some Development.
Review: I've been reading Jordan like a madman this year to catch up to his tenth book. This is the third book in the series I've finished this year. Things finally start to move in the second half of the book and it finishes with a major series altering development. Jordan sometimes seems to have created too many characters and subplots for anyone, including himself, to keep track of. "Heart of Winter" starts with Perrin and his party, but gives way to Matt and Rand, leaving you to wonder about Perrin after his temporary disappearance. I suppose this keeps you waiting to see what happens to him and his wife, but it can get frustrating not to get a clue as you finish the book. However, I recomend that you stick it out if you've gone this far. This novel renews my faith in the Wheel of Time series.
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Summary: Immature characterization of both women and relationships
Review: I just read the review of book 10, thinking that I might buy it because it would have to be better than this book. WRONG. I thought it was my own lack of concentration that had made it so hard for me to read books 8 and 9, so I'm glad to see some people agree with me. I would love to be able to read to the end of this series and see it resolved, but this is getting ridiculous! I decided that there would be no book 10 for me, and in fact, after thinking about it, I gave books 1 through 9 to a deserving thrift store and am done with the series for good. I'm sorry, Mr. Jordan - it started out very well, but there's only so much one can take... My main point in writing this review, however, is I want to take issue with the comments about Jordan writing to please his female readers, and the praise for his female characters. I am female, and I find the leading female characters (except possibly Birgitte) to be very stereotyped - basically, they are angry at and distrustful of the men they know (even the ones they are supposedly "in love" with), suspicious of most other women, over-concerned with clothing and appearance, and, worst of all, they never EVER seem to change, even after going through what should be life-changing experiences! Jordan obviously believes that the relationship between men and women is adversarial and that men and women are different species who cannot ever understand each other, even if they are married. I disagree. He apparently thinks the back-biting and hostile interplay between his male and female characters is witty or funny - I think it got really old even by the end of the first book! I have skipped or skimmed the male-female interactions in all these books because they are irritating and repetitive. And if I have to hear either Rand, Mat, or Perrin say yet again that the other two are the ones who "understand women" once more, I'll probably throw the book across the room! Grow UP, Mr. Jordan! Or at least let your characters grow up!
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