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Summary: Please make it stop!
Review: Would someone please smack the editors at TOR and tell them they are doing Bob a disservice by allowing him to DRAG this series out? The series should have been completed in six volumes max! As I read, I found myself skipping the unnecessary chapters that focused on minor characters because I don't care enough about them to bother reading their stories. I am so fed up that I refuse to buy the books anymore. I only read them when a friend loans one to me. Please, someone, anyone, make it stop before my friends waste any more money on Bobby J's annuity!
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Summary: I'm beginning to yawn.
Review: I have the WOT book nine on my wish list. However, I have to agree with those who are becoming slightly restless. The intricacies of the plots and the large cast of characters of the WOT are fine -- the pace is not. RJ needs to speed things up. If you want to experience truly great writing with plots and characters as rich as Jordan's, but at a pace that never slackens, try George R. R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice series. This is true genius.
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Summary: Sheesh.
Review: God forbid people that forget things go back and re-read! It's GOOD to have loose ends and such leftover at the end of the book. It's what has me itching to read the next book. Jordan's complexity and the length is what makes it good. The number of books is irelevant; if he has a big story to tell than spread it out. As long as something is always happening than I'm happy. Nobody can argue with the fact that something always happens in those stories. I loved every book so far and I almost cried when I finished the last book because the next one wasn't waiting for me at the store.
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Summary: Wow--what an ending
Review: This book leads up to one big ending. I have diligently read this entire series and this book was one of the better books in the latter part of the series. The story is pared down again---not too many extra characters. But I would give some advice to future readers---pick up book 8 or something before reading this one if it has been a while--otherwise, you won't know who anyone is.
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Summary: A Read for more than Just Action
Review: I'd like to say that i enjoy action in stories, and the first of the Wheel of Time were certainly that. But here RJ certainly shows that there can be more to his story than simply the main charactor getting into fights and always winning. RJ has, in my opinion, created a world complex enough to live on its own. Astonishing. He continues to reslove various points, while keeping many of the plot lines open. Its a book i quite recommend, a good addition to the series.
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Summary: maximum respect for another quality installment
Review: The true power of the WoT series comes from the graphic, awesome, world-development that RJ has employed throughout. The ancillary plots that are described only enrich the primary storylines. The story is no longer about three ta'veren boys ripped out of their comfortable village life, but about a world that is being plunged into turmoil in waiting for the cataclysmic event of the battle between the Light's champion, and the terrible Great Lord of Dark. It is the epic description of the people throughout the world seeing change and fighting for their survival that lifts this series above the naïve one-hobbit-against-all-that-is-evil type stories such as Lord of the Rings. It is the rich character development that makes all of his books so interesting. Indeed, as the intrigue has increased, and different and more diverse characters have been introduced, whether serving the Light or the Dark, the series has improved. RJ's imagination has definitely matured since Eye of the World. Winter's Heart sees many questions answered, and gives the reader satisfaction by proving their thoughts correct about the identity of Osan'Gar and Aran'Gar, and Cyndane, and various others. The Chosen being mobilised under Death heightens the tension of the book, and the victory of Rand with the Choedan Kal shows that the series is now inexorably creeping towards a climax. Winter's Heart, with the exception of the tedious reactions of Perrin to his wife's abduction, which could definitely have been condensed into a single chapter, I found was the best of all of the series so far. However, there are certainly things that could have been done to improve the book. Where were the shadowspawn?!? Granted, the series is now about the mobilisation of the human forces, but it seems that Shai'tan does not even care that there is going to be resistance when the remainder of the seals fails. Where are the legions of the Dark that so captured the attention and imagination of the reader in book 1? If the ta'veren had been followed and harassed solely by Friends of the Dark or Seanchan through to Caemlyn before the Eye, would there have even been the satisfied readership to allow a book 2?
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Summary: I Can't Stand These People!!
Review: I'm only half-way through the book at this point, and I'm enjoying it very much. But this review is going out to all the THOUSANDS of people who have written reviews moaning and complaining about the length of the series, the number of characters in the series, etc. Do any of you people have the slighest clue on how to use the internet? You knew enough to write your stupid complaints. After reading The Path of Daggers a couple of years ago, I realized that when part 9 is published, I was going to have a hard time remembering all the characters or what happened in the previous ... I went to a search engine, typed in WHEEL OF TIME, and found DOZENS of sites dedicated to the Wheel of Time. Many of them having all the characters and their relevence to the storyline posted. And many of them have PLOT reviews posted also. Instead of saying "I can't remember this or that", why not THINK for 2 seconds and try to figure how you CAN remember them. I think if any of you did that the answer to the problem would've been very obvious....END
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Summary: Discouraged
Review: Volume eight and volume nine have moved the story along at a snails pace. One gets the feeling that the author and publisher are taking advantage of early volume success by stringing along the loyal readers who have been with them since volume one. It's discouraging to see Mr. Jordan going for quantity over quality and going the way of Tom Clanc and Stephen King.
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Summary: Go Back To Writing Conan.......
Review: Dear Robert, I recommend you stop wasting everyones time and hard earned cash and complete this mess. Go back to writing 128 page Conan books or better yet just stop writing period. Anyone interesting in reading a story with substance pick-up some George R R Martin. I for one will never buy anything written by Robert Jordan ever again.
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Summary: Lonnnnggg
Review: Whew. I finally made it to the last installment of the WOT and am amazed I can still see. After how many pages? And it's still nowhere close to being finished! I have seen the WOT books in stores for years and finally decided to read them -- all at once and without realizing the series wasn't finished yet. But ignorance is bliss and I plunged into EOTW with gusto. Wow! Good book! On to book 2! As on... and on... By the 5th book I was seriously thinking of abandoning the whole thing. Unfortunately, it's addictive so I plodded on. I did get through "Winter's Heart" although I admit I checked it out from the library, having no desire to shell out bucks on a hardcover. What happened to the good stuff? Somewhere in this intermitable "middle" Jordan lost his train of thought. Or maybe the whole train. I agree with reviewers who say you need an encylopedia to keep characters straight. Even though I read the series back-to-back, I can't remember who is who. There must be a million names to try and keep track of. I don't even remember what group the name is affiliated with! So confusing! And the plot has certainly deteriorated to the point of being drivel. Can we please get Elayne crowned so we don't have to follow Andorian politics any more?? (I can't follow US politics, how am I supposed to remember who is head of what major Andorian house and whose side it's on??) Can we stop hearing about the trauma poor Rand faces trying to fight off three women -- and how much they love each other, too, even having to share their man? And can the aes sedai please get their collective acts together so we don't have to waste any more time on which-sister/ajah-is-on-what-side? (And who cares?) It's fun to invent a whole world, complete with geography, politics, clothing (and we certainly hear enough about fashion styles, don't we?!). I suppose it's natural to want to tell everyone all about your new world. However, a million pages of fluff does not make up for the thousand pages of good reading. "Winter's Heart" was better than the preceding 3 or 4 books but it still wasted the lives of many, many trees. Come on, Jordan. Let's stop milking the helpless addicts (such as myself) and give us a good old-fashioned slam-bang ending! (And maybe not even mention Nynaeve pulling her braid this time!!)
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