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Summary: Jordan Geting unfair treatment
Review: I am tired of all the comments about this book. I enjoy the painstaking detail and the endless side plots which really make this series of books come alive. I found the ending to be one of the most enjoyable in all the series and think that Jordan is really getting better with age.
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Summary: Stop the pain!!
Review: What happened to this series?? How could such a fine story devolve into a major disappointment?
I'll be the first to say how much I liked the first four books in the series; in fact I would rate them all at five stars. Since that time there has been a downward spiral (read plunge). For some reason the plot has stagnated, there has been no character develpment and nothing of import has happened in the last five books! The grand Aes Sedai sisterhood seems to spend their time bickering about petty, trivial matters, such as necklines and hemlines rather than serious threats to their existance.
The characters have not matured in any respect, but neither has the story line.
One theory we have among us is that Robert has actually passed away and someone has been trying to finish this series based on his notes they found lying about.
This would not be such a disappointment if not for the promise of earlier books. Can the series be saved?? Let's hope Robert finds his stride.
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Summary: Fair, but not horrible
Review: The most frustrating part of this book is its failure to advance one of the most critical plot points from Book 8: The Rebel Aes Sedai War against Tar Valon.Rand's and Mat's stories move forward nicely. The complication with Faile and Perrin, even while interesting, ultimately detracts from the flow of the story that has been established over the previous eight books. From reading this book, you don't get the feeling that the series is drawing to a conclusion, which after almost 7,000 pages is sorely needed for te sake of all our sanities.
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Summary: agonizing
Review: I don't want to waste anybody's time (unlike the author of this book)..... this is simply a very bad novel. Save your time and money and look elsewhere for a good read.
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Summary: Finally, some improvement
Review: Having read all of the "Wheel of Time" books in about 18 months, it was easy for me to see the changes. Before book six, someone obviously said to Jordan, "Not Eight Books! At Least 20!" The result for Books 6, 7, and 8 was a disaster. Happily, Winter's Heart, is a vast improvement. It's not quite up to the first five books, but the improvement is sufficient to keep me a reader. There are problems - characters and subplots left behind from the last book, or started and never touched in this book. Vastly irritating. At times, some of the book is like marching through a beach covered in Jello. However, the plot is finally moved. The emergence of Cadsuane helps return some balance that was lost in the dismissal of one of the main characters in the first five books - that was perhaps a good idea when there were to be eight books, now it's a disaster. In short, this book is far more enjoyable than the prior three, and gives me some hope that Book Ten will be "A Summer's Roar" rather than "A Hummer's Snore."
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Summary: Fall of the Wheel
Review: I am joining the chorus of people denouncing this series. I started out really enjoying the first few books but lost patience in the rest. Jordan represents the type of writer who gets so caught up in his world that he doesn't care what others think. In some cases that can be good, especially when the writer has creative vision that no one can appreciate. But I highly doubt that is the case here. The Wheel of Time is losing its fans and those that defend him only seem to do so because they've come so far and they want to convince people (and themselves) that they haven't spent all this time reading this ... for nothing. The Wheel of Time books used to rank high in the top 100 Internet SF/Fantasy list ... Now the only book that's mentioned is "Shadow Rising" on #95. ... Alternatively, many have also gotten hooked onto George R. R. Martin, who writing is breathtaking, to say the list (he's #1 on the list, BTW). For anyone who hasn't started this series, please don't, and pick up someone else. For those who are, we should join together ... and demand it be ended immediately.
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Summary: Steady slippage
Review: Robert Jordan really has to break the mold he has created. The characters in his novels, which I loved so much, have become so predictable it is nauseating. I mean the whole battle of the sexes thing has taken repetitive to a whole new level. If you've read the novels, you know what I mean.
I really believe the last novel was originally the first half of a book, then the author floundered and tried to make it into something it clearly was not. There is almost no advancement of the plot in this book; instead the read is mired in the same minutia that has plagued the series for several volumes. In anticipation of this novel, I read the entire series again. The degradation in overall quality became all the more apparent as I went on. The first 3-4 books really were something special, it's a shame about the last few. I can only hope Jordan finds his old form again. At this point I will buy the remaining books, I'm in too deep. However, I'm not thrilled with the direction the series has taken.
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Summary: And in yet another installment....
Review: ...our heroes spend 600 some odd pages waiting for the light to turn green so they can cross the street. Does anyone need to point out that Tolstoy wrote the entire War and Peace in about 1600 pages. Must we keep killing trees for this poor Tolkien rip-off. Poorly written, boring, goes on and on and at the end you're just waiting for the next part to see if it could possibly be more boring...and it is!!!!
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Summary: Too many characters too few pages
Review: This book was pathetic dribble. I am ashamed to tell others I read Robert Jordan after painstackenly forcing myself to read this utter [garbage]. Jordan seems to be confused when he has more main characters than pages in the book. I enjoyed the WoT series through book 6, having read them over 4 times each. Then came book 7-9 and I have to say Im a little lost as to what Jordan is trying to do here with the series. My mom is badgering me about the last sentence and if you don't understand it then you probaly enjoy books 7-9. Anyways My mom is once again pissing me off not allowing me to focus upon my in depth review...which is not really in depth because the book has no depth. But there may be a glimmer of hope for Jordan, book 10 may not [stink], but only time will tell
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Summary: Move the story along
Review: I loved the first few books in this series. In each of them some major goal was accomplished. Now the only thing that seems to happen is the setup of the following book. Will I keep buying the series? Probably. Well at least one more try. If the next book is like this one it may be my last.
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