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Summary: Valandir
Review: The last three books have been frustrating. The trend continues, if Jordan is developing a style it is that of a shclock-pumping serial pulp writer. The first books got my attention, but now he has betrayed his former works and slipped into the role of the non-story teller. I hope the he gets with the program or we'll be better off watching Sienfeld reruns (same level of content, but at least its humorous).
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Summary: PLEASE GET ON WITH IT!
Review: I think that this is a great series but the issues are starting to mount up - Jordan is soaking this for all it is worth. I love the books but you can cram a WHOLE LOT more plot into these books. 15% of the book is dedicated to remembering things that happened in the past since we are almost 10,000 pages into this series. Jordan - enough of the no stop reviewing by the characters of instances and how a woman should act or feel - I like character depth - but you are duplicating to a point where your work begins degrading significantly.Lets get on with this - show us your plots in the writing style that we use to love - not the one that you have degraded into which just churns out rehashed material with a new plot thrown in here and there. You are an amazing writer - but MOVE IT ALONG!! 9 books is way too much, this would have been a significantly more effective series if the 9th would or even the 10th would have wrapped things up - as it stands - this could go on for 10 more books! Last - for all your readers - put in a synopsis that summarizes the last book in each book - it is a good investment of your time and a true benefit to your readers - having to rehash the last book because it takes 2 years to get the next one is just no fun. Now, in conclussion - love the series - it is amazing - just TOO BLOODY LONG! WRAP IT UP MAN!
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Summary: Close, but no cigar.
Review: For those of us who have been eagerly awaiting each of Jordan's books, hoping that finally-- finally!-- the story will actually go somewhere, this book is a dissapointment. Not much actual progress is made until the very last few pages of the book, which seem like theycould have come a couple hundred pages earlier. It has its good parts, though. Mat reappears, Rand confesses his love to the feminine trio, and something actually happens with the One Power. It's difficult to see when the end of this series actuall arrives, but when it does, I'm sure we'll all be relieved.
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Summary: Good for #9
Review: I don't understand what all the criticism is about. So your unhappy the books moving slowly, characters left out, questions not be answered immediately, right? Well it just has to happen. This is the ninth book in the series. Jordan has by this point spread out his plot and cast so thickly that he cannot maintain the rapid speed that his first couple books held. If he tried to it would be an injustice to his whole plot buildup. In the first couple books he had one plot line and one central group of characters which enabled Jordan to move quickly, but now he must keep track of all the characters, seperate conflicts and stories and still makes it enjoyable to read. And he does. The story loses momentum, yes. But it does not lose that magical feeling that has always made the series great. So to all the criticism I say you try to write nine novels of one plotline and still have many, much awaited, fantastical events yet to occur.
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Summary: Not fantastic, but better than the last 2 books
Review: After the last two books, which seemed to go no where, this one starts moving the pace of the series forward slightly. There is one major plot line resloved in the book, and a good deal of action towards the end. The first half of the book is little bit slow, but things start to pick up from there on in. Mat maks a re-appearance and he finally gets to meet the daughter of the nine moons. There is a good deal about Perrin in the early chapters, but mainly what he is doing is looking for Faile, and the storyline does not continue throughout the book. There is nothing about Egwene, her rebel Aes Sedai or the seige. Elayne is busy trying to consolidate her power, and Nyneaves character begins to redeem itself (there is a lot less braid pulling in this book than the in previous ones) Rand is chasing the rebel asha'man who tryed to kill him in 'path of daggers', and this counts for some of the best scenes in the book. Rand also finally meets all his girls face to face, and that scene is one of the funniest in the whole series. The ending on the book is brillant, the best ending on any of the books since 'the fires of heaven'. I only gave the book three stars because parts of the book really drag on, and even though the storyline moves on a bit, we still don't seem to be any closer to Rand defeating the Dark One, or the series ending
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Summary: Wait, Wait, Wait...
Review: One thing you have to remember in a good book is detail. You have to remember that Jordan has 8 or 9 subplots going (Rand, Perrin, Mat, Egwene, Nyneave, Elayne, the White Tower, and the forsaken) and probably others I left out. All of these subplots can't experience massive growth in the same book. While everyone is complaining that only a few subplots were addressed in this book, you must remember that some of these experienced massive changes, and if Jordan attempted to address all the plots, very little could happen. (Unless, of course, this one book was the size of the first 9 volumes of the Encyclopedia Brittanica.) I think that Jordan has done a tremendous job of painting the picture of his story, and give the reader the feeling that he or she is actually there. This love of detail started in book 1 and continues in this new addition.
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Summary: give him a break...
Review: yeah thats right, give the guy a break. sure maybe he chewed off more than he could swallow. but is it really that bad? yeah, even i was dissapointed at the perrin and elayne threads. but the other half clearly redeems. i think he is refraining from rushing the major plot lines. when he has come this far you can't expect him to rush and forget about laying the foundations (which i think he has been doing for the past two books). everyone is now in place, and i really don't think there'll be anymore new characters and new subplots. the ones we have now are, imho, crucial. it has to be. was the ending rushed? maybe, but thats where he's going to start the TENTH book. yeah, i am very optimistic. the point is, he is doing the best he possibly can. and when considering the immensity of his vision and the story i can think of no more efficient way of presenting it. you make a mistake when you identify the subplots as irrelevent. i think its part of the foundation. when you have something this huge and complex some side effects would naturally arise. but think of the whole series when he completes it? wouldn't that be a grand work of art and marvel of imagination to behold?
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Summary: redemption for jordah
Review: i have just finished re-reading the entire series and finished winter's heart. it is absolutely a must to reread the entire serires. without having gone back and seen the work before this one would certainly rate about 2 stars maybe even 1. however, the experience of the entire series even brings new life to the faded lackluster last couple of books. of course, right when it gets good he jumps to another character. but it looks like within 5 more books the whole thing might be done.
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Summary: Never failing to entertain
Review: I read this book all in the first day it arrived from Amazon.com to my house. Once I started I couldn't put it down as I had been waiting for a long time to get the newest installment in The Wheel of Time series. While I rate the book a 5, and continue to believe this is the best series ever written in Fantasy type novels. My one complaint is and always will be that it takes too long for Robert Jordan to finish each book. As always I bought this one the day it was available, and finished it that day, but now I will likely have to wait 2 or 3 years for the next book. I would recommend this book and series to anyone who reads this type of book and maybe even a few people who do not, however my suggestion is pace yourself if your starting at the beginning, else you will be waiting in limbo like me for the next book to be finished.
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Summary: Like Waiting for a Late Train
Review: Don't get me wrong, I would read it even if it stunk (it didn't), but this recent Jordan effort left me a bit unsatisfied. Having read the other 8, I had to read it. I enjoyed the saga's continuation. And like one of your other reviewers, I too revelled in the return of Mat. We needed his random luck and oh so human frustrations. I love how his character is both sexual and not in his constant running from seduction. His humanity rises to the occasion in this episode, and that too is refreshing. Now for the harsh stuff. My big question was. What is happening, I mean the big picture. We get very little of that. Now that the characters are fractured and the whole world is waiting, frankly the whole thing gets annoying. First we're in the snow...then hey, where did Perrin go? Rand fixes one thing, but still has not got a handle on much, and by the end I wondered what had been accomplished. The whole experience was like going to a distant relative's for Christmas (I love the holidays) but getting a bunch of stuff I didn't ask for. If you've been riding the wheel, you can't get off now. You'll want to know this stuff. But you'll be hungry again very soon.
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