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Summary: Stop Whining!
Review: Ok, the series is long and involved. The characters are complex and have habits that make us wild, but if they didn't have those characteristics, they would not be who they are. Follow?The only complaint that I have about this series is that the books come out too far apart. I wait, impatiently, starting the day I buy the new book, for the next one. Is that a problem? Not really. It would not matter if Mr. Jordan did not publish a book for ten years, and then put out a picture book to end the series. I am telling you, I am there. Everyone will tell you that they like this character, don't like that character. I'm thinking if you want to control the world, write your own book. In the mean time, I can't fail to appreciate the fact that Jordan has created a world that while you are watching Mat make a fool of himself that the world is moving and changing with each decision that he makes. This is what helps to define the work of a genius. One dementional stories are easy to understand, but not much fun to read. I like working my way through this. I have started the series over 12 times. Each time reading my way through each book in sucession. WoT is in five pieces (memo to self: order a new book) and I will continue to do this until the series is at an end. Then, I will wish there were more books, and I will go back to visit old friends over and over. Do I hope that the end is in sight? Yes. Do I think that Jordan should publish a book a year? Yes Are the books worth reading? YES, Repeatedly.
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Summary: Finally, altleast one of the many plot lines advance.
Review: As a big fan of the WOT, I have watched the series slowly fade from the exciting, adventurous, and well written books(1 thru 5), to the "see Jane run" books(7 thru 8). Although better than the last book, Robert Jordan once again comes up a little short in advancing the plot line of his series with meaningful content. I felt this book had too much filler and not enough meat to account for over 2 years of writing. I don't mind the wait so long as it appears an effort was made to satisfy his loyal fans. Aside from the final chapter, which completes one of the major plot lines, this book.... If you feel like I left you hanging, get used to it, Jordan has a knack for doing the same.
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Summary: Too Much, Too Late, Too Little
Review: Mr. Jordan is in need of a good editor. There are far too many minor characters crowding up this book and bogging down the plot. It crawls at points with endless descriptions that one could skip entirley and never miss. It's pretty bad when you can skip entire chapters and not miss a thing. The best part of the book is the last part, if you have the patience to wade through countless and seemingly meaningless storylines to get to it. Also, am I the only one who thinks Rand bonding and bedding three women is turning this into soap opera trash. I mean, come on...Is he the Dragon Reborn, or The Dragon Stud? I'm glad to see the return of Matt...though Jordan goes on ad-nasuem about him being Tylin's boy toy. More soap opera trash? The ending finally gets down to business and moves this story along. It's the best part of the book and yet Jordan spends way less time on it than on the rest of the book. I wanted more. He begins descriptions of the battle with the Forsaken, skips the most of the action and then we pan to the end where we get a brief body count and Cadsuane making up her mind to keep an eye on Rand...duh. What happened to all the Forsaken? Were they injured at all? And speaking of them....their identies are now so hard to keep up with you need a reference manual to see who's who. It's better than Path of Daggers, which did nothing to advance the story. But it's not good enough. Mr. Jordan is beginning to seem as overwhelmed by his story as his readers and one wonders if he is making this up as he goes along or even has an end in sight.
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Summary: Excellent for what you get
Review: Despite a lot of negative comments, what you get is generally good. We finally see a use for Rand teaching his Asha'man the sword as he fights the intiguing battle against the renegades, and in the end Padan Fain. I had almost forgot there are places you cannot channel in. Winters Heart just turned out to have good content but not the content we expected. Is no one surprised at how many women who are popping up with an even greater strength than Nynaeve. We had always been made to believe that Nynaeve was the most powerful woman except for the forsaken, and now we have met a Seanchan Damane who has more power even than Lanfear did! I think she will be the one to use the two great sa'angreal in the Last Battle, and that would explain why she will help him die (my theory). And doesnt anyone find it worrying that the female Choeden Kal (right spelling?) was destroyed in the healing of the taint. Elayne having excellent skill (for the time) in ter'angreal making will probably have to be the one to rebuild it, and maybe that explains Elaida's Foretelling about The House of Andor being the key to the last battle. So in fact a lot of questions are being answered and Robert Jordan is slowly weaving towards the Last Battle. What I didnt like was we did not get enough of Perrin, and after all the vaunted promises of a great battle between the rebels and The White Tower, we got zilch! Still the coming of The Daughter of the Nine Moons and the excellent ending more than makes up for this. So if your bored of the series quit your complaining and stop reading, but if you enjoy it than persevere and you will be rewarded!
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Summary: God please give me a time machine...
Review: I wasn't thrilled with PoD when it came out. At the time I would have rated it 2 stars. After rereading the entire series in a sitting in preparation for Winter's Heart (can't keep half the supporting characters straight with such huge gaps between books), I found I really enjoyed PoD as it was simply a continuation of the story and I didn't have to wait a couple years to read it. After reading Winter's Heart, I think the only thing that could possibly keep most people from ripping on Mr. Jordan is a leap forward in time. With the entire story in hand, it would be much easier to ignore the speed bumps in the story and appreciate it as a whole. Winter's Heart was good, but I found myself, well, 'bored' with the first 300+ pages. Thankfully, the ending was exciting and finished with a bang. The excitement is fading quickly though at the prospect of YEARS ahead before the next installment...
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Summary: Robert Jordan's soap opera
Review: After spending a good portion of my life reading and re-reading the WOT series, I still am optomistic every time a new volume finally hits the market. Unfortunately, I seem to be eternally doomed to disappointment. Mr. Jordan has so many story lines going that adding a bit to each will fill up the 700 pages in no time. I was surprised that he started the book with Perrin and Faile and then left them hanging in limbo, Loial and Morgase seem to have disappeared from the written page, and so on and so forth. On the other hand, I am continually amazed by the amount of planning that must have gone into the writing of this series. Some of the things mentioned in passing in the first book are only now coming into play in book number nine. Obviously he does keep track of where he wants his characters to be and has plans for them. It seems that we get teasers on each story line and then are left hanging. I only hope I will live long enough to see the conclusion of the series, be it book number 11 or 20. Although at one book a year, if we are lucky, I might lose interest by then.
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Summary: Everyone is being pretty harsh
Review: Ok guys here it goes. This book did have a lot of miscellaneous, non-important crap like the whole thing with Perrin; however, you have to admit the most of the rest of the book was very cool. I mean, I don't know about you but I wanted to know what happened to the guys who attacked Rand at the end of Path of Daggers and who Dashiva really was. The ending was absolutelt superb and it is my belief that everyone out there is being a little bit critical of Mr. Jordan. I mean, if you think that you can do better then please go out and write one of these books, I'll buy it and then tell that it really sucks. Until you can write a series like this then please try and keep your extremely critical comments to yourselves. I for one think that Jordan is doing a great job (except for the lag time between books which is unavoidable).
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Summary: Had enough!
Review: Mr. Jordan has finally gone too far by not going far enough. I've been faithful from the beginning, but this one reads like a bad soap opera and his fixation with manipulative women borders on boring. Too many characters, too many subplots and not enough happening to the main characters, at least I assume Rand is a main character. The menage-a-trois plus one is too much. I enjoyed the series up until Path of Daggers, held out hope for a conclusion with that one and now there will be yet another book, which patterns woven tell me will also not end it. At this point I don't care if it never ends, I'm finished. Read it at your own risk, but be prepared to skim pages just to find out IF anything is happening. A real disappointment for what was a potentially good story - in the distant beginning.
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Summary: Hard sledding for Winter's Heart
Review: The latest Robert Jordan novel continues the ninth iteration his "epic" epic. Although the book begins in the tedius, repetitive style more suited to afternoon soap operas than a book of this genre (which has afflicted the last few books in the serie the book picks up speed in the second half as the author returns to the adventures of two of his best characters, Mat and Rand. As the book reaches a conclusion, Winter's Heart becomes a real page turner. It is understandable that a story which has six often widely dispersed main characters, over a dozen other major characters, and literaly hundereds of other named and described people is going to move ponderously. It is a shame that a writer as capable as Robert Jordan has allowed himself to get bogged down describing so many of the periferal characters in such grinding detail. His writing away from the action is decidedly a step down for him. But as a fellow veteran, I must say the author has captured the FEEL, the sickening confusion, uncertainty, anxiety, and fear of war as well as anyone writing today. I can only hope he keeps the momentum generated by the close of Winter's Heart going in the next installment.
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Summary: Book 9 of The Wheel of Tedium
Review: How very sad to observe a gifted writer like Robert Jordan become trapped upon his own wheel..The Wheel of Tedium. The plot meanders, the pace is like marching through molasses. Characters are named and seemingly never heard from again. Questions raised books ago are never resolved and new questions are raised with little hope of resolution. I skimmed entire chapters at a time. Worst of all, Jordan no longer loves his characters. He's probably becoming as bored with them as we are. Robert, please...from a devoted fan whose been along from the beginning: do us all a favor, take what remaining new ideas you have left, bundle them together in a final book and end the saga. And if it's about the money, not to worry: just start the wheel turning again with book one of the next epoch.
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