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Summary: Robert Jordan, Please Come Home . . .
Review: Even Robert Jordan in mediocrity beats most other fantasy writers at their best, but, oh, what disappointments have followed the first four or five in the Wheel of Time series. Certainly the last three installments of this multipiece work (vingtology??), probably the last four, and maybe even the last five have lost the imagination, the creative excitement and the fast moving action of the first ones. What was once indisputably the best fantasy serial work since the Lord of the Rings Trilogy has become a somewhat lumbering and labored hulk of pieced together scrapple. The characters seem even to have lost track of themselves, so where does that leave us, the faithful followers? Only the most ardent and devoted Jordanites still have a grasp of the intricacies of the plot, character, history and myth that has gone before.None of these four or five novels seem to move the story line(s)forward in any significant degree. Frankly, Jordan himself seems unsure of what do to now. One wonders if this seemingly unending tale is really now viewed by its author as his lifelong annuity. Certainly, he has gathered enough loyal followers that their continued devotion will ensure continued purchasing of the unending stream of new releases and a continued stream of nice royalty income to Mr. Jordan. I must say that it pains deeply to say that and still hope anguishingly that he will return to the form of his first four or five pieces of this work. That said, however, there is this silver lining: Winter's Heart takes a small step back in the right direction after what had seemed to me to have become a mire pit with Crown of Swords and Path of Daggers. Robert Jordan no longer rules the roost, and The Wheel of Time is not the only game in town now. A Song of Ice and Fire Series has moved past and easily displaced The Wheel of Time as the best going these days, and I believe (and hope) that George R. R. Martin seems intent on not doing to his superb series what Robert Jordan has done to his. The Sword of Truth is not more than half a step behind Jordan, but Terry Goodkind shows signs of falling into the Jordan morass. Raymond Feist, although not quite in the same league (but not wholly left in the dust, either) has always been much more direct, honest and businesslike in moving his series forward and wrapping them up. The same goes for Robert Eddings. Robert Jordan needs to reassert his creative pride. So, Robert Jordan, please come home!!
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Summary: LONG AND VERY DULL
Review: I am quickly becoming disenchanted with "MOMMAS BOY" Jordan. I have had this book scince christmas and can't get through it. I feel like I'm being milked here...How many more Jordan??? Its getting old!
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Summary: Pretty decent.....lots of filler but good
Review: When you get to 9th book in his series you realize that Jordan is very verbose and sometimes to a fault. This book I felt was much better than some of the others, however, nothing will top the first 3 book. We are obviously in for a long ride as I have head that there will probably be at least another 3 if not 4 books in this series.
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Summary: Not so bad!
Review: hehe... I feel sorry for all of you who strangely enough stopped reading in the middle of this book. My opinion is that it turned out to be the best Jordan book since the early ones. And the last chapter is if not the best, anyhow at least one of the best so far...
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Summary: Stop to read this
Review: After reading all the other reviews, I have to say that I hold the first few reviewers in contempt for abandoning these books. I know things got a bit slow in the past few books, but this one picked up the pace again. Several things I had been waiting for a long time finally happened, and several more are about to happen. What most of you seem not to understand is that the Wheel of Time is a masterpiece, a writer's dream (and a reader's too). This world, coming from one man's imagination, is every bit as complex as the one we live in now. It takes a lot of time and a lot of effort to create something so complex, and indeed, it was the very complexity of it that drew me into the series in the first place after a very good friend of mine introduced me to the first book. I'm a fast reader; I zip through books and then I'm left looking for more. These long and complicated books are just what I needed. The well thought out plot leaves me thinking through events that have happend, the effect of them, the various characters, and most of all, what will happen next. By the way, does anyone else think that Mazrim Taim is a Forsaken, possibly Demandred? Anyway, think twice before you give up these books. If you don't have the mental capacity to stick with it once you've started, then you shouldn't have entered this world at all. As a young writer, I praise Robert Jordan for his genius and hope that someday I will be at least half as good as he is.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I'm mostly writing the review to give it a 5 stars and bump up the average a little. I love this series, plain and simple. Unlike so many people here, apparently, I love side stories. I would love to read a book in the series that had absolutely nothing but side stories of what is going on elsewhere in the world. I love seeing viewpoints from Seanchan characters, because there clear up the mystery of Seanchan just that teensy bit that makes me want to know even more. No, this certainly isn't a slam-bam-thank you ma'am series, and I probably wouldn't read it if it was.
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Summary: Its Like Watching an Old Boxer Get the Snot Beat Out of Him
Review: I wonder how much Jordan has been manipulated by his Editor and Publisher. Milk it baby! He has probably described "wool dress" close on 1,000 times. I remember reading about a proposed 8 volumes about five years ago. This garbage is no better than a soap opera and is probably worse since formulaic suspense has at least a rhythm and flow that is predictable and comforting. This stuff is like a car that's missing on one cylinder. So much incredible promise having degenerated into such pathos - its a crying shame.
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Summary: Its Like Watching an Old Boxer Get the Crap Beat Out of Him
Review: I wonder how much Jordan has been manipulated by his Editor and Publisher. Milk it baby! He has probably described "wool dress" close on 1,000 times. About [.....] for the latest in the series too. I remember reading about a proposed 8 volumes about five years ago. This garbage is no better than a soap opera and is probably worse since formulaic suspense has at least a rhythm and flow that is predictable and comforting. This stuff is like a car that's missing on one cylinder. So much incredible promise having degenerated into such pathos - its a crying shame.
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Summary: How could you???
Review: How could all of you people just give up on this awesome series? Was it getting a little too complicated for your thought process. Just because Robert Jordan is taking his time to weave the right atmosphere for the ending, and isn't ending it prematurly doesn't mean he deserves your scorn.
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Summary: Wrapping It Up and Other Such Nonsense
Review: Borrowing a term from the nearly endearing Dragonlance series, perhaps WoT is Jordan's Life Quest. And if it is, I highly doubt and sincerely hope he would never be foolish enough to compromise his incredibly robust vision to accomodate a mass of people with short attention spans. Granted, everyone has his or her own tastes in everything thinkable, but I don't understand why anyone would come this far along the road to Tarmon Gai'don only to find fault with the paths Jordan's children make. (Don't speak ill of the Creator, anyways. He might have you reincarnated as a silverpike.) Anyone who's not a woolhead knows that Rand, Mat, and Perrin are ta'veren. Thusly, they tug others in the Weave of the Pattern. Those people who had interacted with them 3 or 4 books ago are now being woven into the greater pattern of the pattern. Take Bayle Domon, for instance. When was the last time anyone even THOUGHT of him? Fain keeps popping up at the most innoportune times, waving that flaming curved dagger around like a bull-goosed fool at Sunday...ah, burn it. My point is, and the Subtle But Not So Subtle point which Jordan is trying to present is this: a work of art takes time. We may not all...agree...on the...necessity...of some of the characters (Egwene, for one. Just let Elaida have her shawl, she's Chosen fodder anyhow), we may not like the elaborate plots by nobles who represent the Light knows which nations, and we may as soon court a Trolloc as care a whit for Andor's fate. But we all care about the overall story, and most likely, Jordan revels in the fact that we care enough to coolly disdain certain aspects of his unfoldings. Peace favor your swords.
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