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Summary: This is a good book
Review: This book is good, but sometimes it is a little hard to fallow and i love it.
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Summary: stop your whining
Review: I don't know why some of you were complaining about it. It may have been slow at times but well worth it to set up the story for this book and future ones. This was an awsome book it kept me reading enthusiasticly for hours. Now I don't knnow what I'm going to do now that I'm done reading it.
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Summary: Better than expected
Review: I liked this book more than I expected to, particularly given my attitude going in. This series is way too long. Fully half of the thousands of words Jordan has written over nine volumes should have been cut, either by him or by an ethical editor. You'd think he was getting paid by the word. After volume 5 or so, I'd really had enough of this series, but I keep reading them because I have so much time into it now I'm determined to see how it ends. I'm not buying them anymore though; I'm getting them at the library. I'm not going to subsidize Jordan's addiction.If nothing else, the publisher owes the readers a little summary of the books so far at the start of each book. Jordan makes essentially no effort to work the background from prior books into the text of the current work (which is truly a breathtaking omission given how he loves to carry on), and I can only dimly remember a lot of what has gone before (this has been going on for years after all). It's hard just to keep track of the names of the dozens of characters that flit in and out. Jordan even introduced yet another "minor" character who obviously a significant role to play about half way through book nine. Some editor has to get a grip on this guy. Also, the prologue alone to this volume was 86 pages (hardcover). I almost threw in the towel right there. Anyway, after all that complaining, this was a stronger book than the last three or so. Mat has emerged as the most interesting of the three lead characters, and he gets significant attention in this volume. Still, for all that actually happened in book nine, if you cut out the meaningless minor characters and endless meanderings, this book could have been cut in half. There's clearly enough holding these books together to keep me reading to the end, but I certainly hope book 10 is the final volume. Jordan has beaten this horse to death long since.
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Summary: Fantasy at its greatest...
Review: Winter's Heart, the ninth book in The Wheel Of Time Series, keeps with the tradition and exemplary writing of the first eight. I would recommend this book to people of all ages, I do actually. Winter's Heart is enthralling, exiting, sexy, and suspenseful. Robert Jordan manages to pull his readers into the story through excellent writing, captivating story, and indepth characters. Another great one by a great one.
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Summary: RAFO
Review: The beginning was quite slow, but the end of this book was one of the best parts in the series.
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Summary: How bad can it get?
Review: The quality of the Wheel of Time has been going steadily downhill. I thought we had scraped the bottom with the last one and the series would pick up again as we neared a conclusion. However large parts of this book are completely unreadable. Characters become more and more superficial and their motivations quetionable. Half the chapters and characters have no relevance to the main story. Robert Jordan should have mercy on us all and bring the series to a quick end. What a shame after such an excellent start.
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Summary: A shame
Review: I'm afraid Robert Jordan's good writing stopped at Book 6. It hasn't started up again. The plot-line has become glacially slow and RJ only seems interested in: (a) drawing out the nuances of the tiniest of inter-personal relationships between his main good characters that NO-ONE cares about (braid-tug, sniff etc); (b) creating new characters no-one will ever remember; (c) forgetting about those existing characters that one does recall (hello, RJ, there's one called Mat); (d) laughing up his sleeve at fans puzzling to work out the Adeleas/Asmodean/Demandred threads that have been happening for, oh, 3-4 books now & badly need to be cleared up. And only spiced up at the end after the publishers realised that nothing had happened in the book. I'm waiting for someone to write a 100 page summary of books 7-9. Shouldn't take long.
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Summary: Robert Jordan is a charlatan
Review: Robert Jordan is not a fantasy writer; he is a charlatan. If you have read the likes of JRR Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings or George Lucas's Star Wars, you know what I mean. First of all, this "channeling of the power" business is a direct, one to one copy from Star Wars's "channeling the force," and probably some other fantasy/science fiction works. Secondly, the presentation and developments of characters, events, and creatures are also 90% taken from these books. Rand Al'Thor grows up to be 'The Dragon', and can never afford to be the child he was a few years ago (like Luke Skywalker in Episode VI). And then there were the creatures from LoTR; Padan Fain is Gollum, Trollocs are Goblins, etc.. The only thing that separates Jordan from the authors of the aforementioned books is that he writes in 2743958274572 pages what the others have written in a few hundred. And doing this, he makes lots of bucks that he does not deserve at all. If you haven't started reading Jordan yet but are thinking of starting soon, this is your chance to think again.
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Summary: Keep it up Mr. Jordan you're doing fine
Review: This may be my loyalism to the series talking, but I found this book entertaining and satisfying, especially the ending. Things mentioned briefly in other books are wrapped up in this book (or at least moved quickly along the plot line) and previous mysteries about certain things are cleared up. This book may not be the kind of book for somebody in need of instant gratification (Hero get's girl, hero kills bad guy, hero conquers world blah blah blah) like many of the other reviewers, but it is important to the series and if you would like to keep up with the world of WOT, don't kid yourself. Buy this book, I recommend it.
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Summary: The best thing since sliced bread
Review: I picked up my first fantasy book while waiting for my flight. I read Robert Jordan's Conan book during the flight, and throughout the night upon arriving home. Simply put, Mr. Jordan weaves a tale that is impossible to put down. After reading all the rest of his Conan books, I had hoped that there were other Conan books up his sleeve. To my surprise, he was working on another series called the Wheel of Time. I scoffed at his abandonment of such a wonderful character and went on to other authors for a time. Book after book, I was disappointed with the quality of the other authors. Some were better than others, but none were the same caliber as Mr. Jordan. It was then that I gave his Wheel of Time a try. From the first book, he had me hooked. I've enjoyed every plot and character. A good book can usually bring a smile to my face, but Jordan's humor had me laughing out loud at times. While some books in the series have been better than others, they've all been very enjoyable and been the cause of many late night readings. Now we come to his 9th eagerly awaited book. Winter's Heart was a treasure and a let down at the same time. A major conflict that has plagued our hero from the beginning has been resolved, and it's interesting to see how this will effect the entire world. The disappointment is that the book does seem a bit rushed. Though some of the sideplots are thankfully given attention, they end right when you begin to become interested. While I wish he could have included more of the sideplots or left them out completely, I do feel that whatever happens, it is worth the wait. I have faith that his coming books will be as good, or better. I'm here for the ride.
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