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Summary: Now if only the books would be a little closer together...
Review: I'm anxiously awaiting the next installment, since I read book 9 the month it was released.. I've re-read the series 3 times up to this point, and there are a LOT of subtle details and subplots that you don't see the first time you read it. Book 8 was too short, and covered too short a time period. However, some of the excitement has been brought back with book 9, and I would like to see conclusion to some of the side-stories.
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Summary: Winter's Heart
Review: Great books that I loved! The one thing I didn't like about this incredibly detailed book is that the point it stopped at makes you want the next book NOW! Not a read for younger kids because of the specatular web of charactors and it won't be as interesting if you can't connect some things to figure it out.
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Summary: These books rock.
Review: *
I hope the series never ends. I think people might get frustrated, because they read through a lengthy series, get to the end without the reward of a conclusion, and then have to wait for the writer to spin out more information. If you are ravenous about books, you will get through it in no time and wish there were more. I ate through these books in a month, and the time spent was highly enjoyable. You encounter interesting ideas about geography, gender, culture, and politics; all embedded in tales that allow you to escape humdrum life. I look forward to the next book.
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Summary: Please, God, make it stop. Just make it stop.
Review: The first couple of books were decent formula fantasy potboilers -- nothing to write home about, but nicely imagined and certainly better than some I could name. At some point, though, it all has to end. There's simply no conceivable excuse for spinning out exactly the same exhausted plot elements, over and over, book after book, until the end of recorded time. This thing is longer than the Bible. It's longer than the Bible and The Lord of the Rings combined. It's longer than the Bible, The Lord of the Rings, and the Annotated Works of Stephen King, with a little Proust thrown in for desert. It's even longer than that, and NOTHING IS HAPPENING. The girls get into trouble. The girls get out of trouble. Rand is tormented. Rand kills a Forsaken. Over and over and over and over and over. Just END IT, Mr. Jordan. Please. On the other hand, of course, there is a lot more spanking here than one generally finds in epic fantasy. If you're into that kind of thing.
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Summary: It's so over for me with this series...
Review: I have never before given up on a series, but I am quite thrilled to be dropping this one. WoT has become a complete waste of my time and energy. So sorry, but I cannot recommend this series to anyone. I feel Mr. Jordan has become only interested in how long he can spin this series out, and receive more royalties.
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Summary: He's back!!!!!
Review: Regardless of what everyone else says, this book shows that Jordan still has what it takes to be a good writer. I admit that I was getting a bit worried after book eight, but I think this book could be one of the best, if it were a little longer. Winter's Heart offers some major advances to the plot line, and gets the story moving again. The only thing it could have done is progress a bit more with Egwene's attack on the Tower. Still, this book moves the series along, bringing an ending into view. For this alone, I would buy the book, but I think this shows that Jordan is listening to what his fans have been saying. I think his editors want to milk these books for all they are worth, but he doesn't (I heard he did not get any of the proceeds from "Snow"). Thank you, Mr. Jordan, for restoring my faith in one of the best fantasy series since the Lord of the Rings.
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Summary: Restored my faith in the series
Review: I will not review the book's plot, as that has been covered plenty. I want to address the quality of the series as a whole, to which I give my 4 stars. In early 1998, I devoured the first 7 books and then had to wait 6 months for Book 8. I was disappointed, as were a lot of other readers. Two years later, Book 9 came out and I waited an additional year to purchase it because time had not been kind to my memories of the series. A couple of months ago, I decided I should re-read the series in its entirety. I'm glad I did. I have just finished book 9. In retrospect, I can see that my impatience caused me to demand too much from a single entry. I had become spoiled with the first 7; when I finished one, I simply bought the next one. I couldn't do that with book 8 or book 9. I would recommend to anyone who has grown impatient to re-read straight through from the first book. You might be surprised at how good the series is again when you don't have to wait 2+ years between entries. Of course, if Jordan could return to the prolific level of output he had at the beginning of the series -- the first 6 books came out over a 5-year period (1990-1994), while the next three have have come out over 6-year period (1995-2000)-- I would not complain.
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Summary: These books stink
Review: Ok, so the first couple of books were really good. Everything else? A total waste of time. Me? I quit. This story will never end.
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Summary: QUESTION
Review: IS ROBERT JORDAN AND TERRRY GOODKIND THE SAME PERSON.
THE WAY BOTH SERIES ARE WRITTEN IF NOT ONE IN THE SAME
THEN THEY GOT TO BE TWINS.
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Summary: Three Women...What IS a Boy To Do?? (Spoiler Ahead!)
Review: The greatest seduction line of all time...
"There is something they have had from you that I haven't...You will have to help me with my buttons. I cannot take this dress off by myself."
Isn't that sweet? Like, "Fair is fair! Rock and roll, baby!"
As ridiculous as reincarnating the Forsaken was, I must say, the newest twist in the Rand-and-his-women plotline is worse. Really, by book twenty-four, Rand will have half the women in the story bonded to him. As well as ten unhealable wounds and about a million tattoos. I'm starting to think that Jordan includes his "I taught myself to read before I was born, then traveled back in time to inspire Jules Verne!" biography in the back of his books in a (vain) attempt to convince his readers that he knows what he's doing. We jus' don't see where this is goin' 'cause for we done ain't dat smart!
To be fair, I do think that the first five books were excellent. I had the major advantage of starting to read the series after publication of the first eight books, so I never had a chance to forget previous plot elements or characters while waiting for the next installment. The series has degenerated markedly, however...Recent books have been most unsatisfying for me because I love Mat and Perrin dearly, and get sad when I don't see them for a long time. I hate all the women (except for Min, even with her "new look") and wish they would at least not talk so much, not to mention smoothing skirts or tugging braids. Final note, on that same topic. Clearly, Jordan simply forgot to mention the part in the book where Lan was hit on the head with a heavy, blunt object. This is the ONLY explanation I can think of for his relationship with Nynaeve.
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