The Wheel of Time (Boxed Set #1)

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Summary: May the Light shine upon all readers
Review: At the moment, I am 400 pages in to book 7 for the second time. I own every WOT book R.J.'s ever written in Hardcover. The books are not too long unless you are reading impaired, and stay original. I love Tolkien, and yawn through it to get to reading The Wheel. These are the most wonderful books I have every read, perhaps the best ever. Everything about them is perfect.

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Summary: Best Series of Books, period.
Review: This series of books is truely a masterpiece. The way Jordan interconnects EVERY element of EACH book is amazing. Through all the painstaking detail of creating the perfect story and absolutely complete world to house the story Jordan still manages to make every word keep the reader on the edge of thier seats. Wow.. a true masterpiece!

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Summary: A different perspective of a different book
Review: This is the best book I have ever read. The twists and turns make you think, one hint of information that you would forget after reading comes back later as a main part of the story, there is not one part of the story that does not come back to haunt you. From the sheepish farm boy to the lord dragon. From a black smith to a warrior, from a shepard to the man made of luck. This is a different type of book, men are the workers, weomen are house wives, but the surprising thing is the weomen are more powerful than the men.

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Summary: Extraordinary fantasy book. Wanna more like this one.
Review: If you are fantasy reader as I am, you should notice that this book isn't like others. For one thing is VERY different. I've never seen so rich characters in fantasy books as I've seen in Robert Jordan's 'The Wheel of Time'. You can believe they live. You can hear them breeth. You can see them cry. And you can't stop reading the book till you've swallowed the whole of it. It keeps you awake at night, it keeps you daydreaming at work. It never lets you go. And that's the best. But one year is too long time to wait for book 8 to come. I guess we all wanna walk the Path of Daggers right now, don't we?

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Summary: Tolkien and Herbert pale beside this masterpiece.
Review: This is Undoubtedly the best fantasy series every written by far. I have read it all the way through at least half a dozen times(honestly the first time i read it i was so enraptured that i skipped several dialouge chapters, But only on the first book!) Every time i read i find something new and exciting. But what thrills me the most is the sense of..Familarity...I feel like i am familiar with this world. Now, maybe after the 6th time, but i felt this clearly the First time. And you wonder why, Its because of Tolkien, or the Arthurian legends, or even Dune! All these great trilogys and stories that have rocked our imagination and view of our lives and what we experiance everyday are rolled up into this great series. But, they are so blended and mixed with 99% new matieral that it seems original and great(Which it is!) We are familiar with these charactors. We know them. And you cant say that Jordan is ripping them off! He isnt ripping them off at all! EVERY single fantasy epic is disturbingly the same in a

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Summary: Without a doubt this is the finest fantasy I've ever read
Review: Robert Jordan builds real-ordinary-people kind of heroes/heroines. He also builds a world of magic and wonder to which you will always want to return. He will confound and excite you as each volume ends in a bittersweet mixture of triumph and regret. Regret because the current volume is not the end of the story. Triumph because you know there will be another chapter in an unparallelled tale of the fight between good and evil. He shows us that there is a thin line, easily crossed, between them. He gives us a realistic examination of true power and what it can do to the purest of hearts. You will never regret reading this series... unless Robert Jordan dies before it is finished. May the light forbid.

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Summary: Great, the series strong as heartstone
Review: One of the few great stories that I can read again and again. The characters seem like long time friends, and the cast grows with each book. A great read.

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Summary: The Best
Review: Jordan is less of a rip-off of Tokien than Tolkien is a blatant (very, very blatant) rip-off of Arthurian legend. Tolkien in fact made it a point to rip off Arthurian legend, which is a large part of why the real literary community (in addition to simple sword/sorcery buffs like us) consider him a genius. Jordan just wrote a great series. If he borrowed - so what. Enjoy the similarities if you find them. The end result remains: Jordan wrote the best series of fantasy ever written (so far).

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Summary: Similar but different!
Review: I would aspire to be as good a writer as Robert Jordan. Many people compare The Wheel of Time series to Tolkien and Dune among others, and why not? Any truly good story requres the essence that each of these stories contain, but what draws the reader is the WAY it is written, and the feeling it is written with! Wheather you are reading about Rand, Mat, Perrin, Nynaeve, Elayne, Egwene, Thom, Juilin, and the list goes on, they are interesting, have a believable history and a reason for being, each character reaches out and pulls you in and along with them. The story line makes you want to rush ahead to see what is happeniing. I have felt this way with hundreds of books I have read, but not to this extent, I find myself thinking about the characters while on my way to work, or when mowing the lawn. What will happen next? Is Moiraine dead? What will Nynaeve do about Lan if she is not? The questions go on and on and pull you deeper into the story than any sensible person would allow, but that is the secret to a great story! It is more addictive than any drug! Pick up The wheel of time and start reading. When the sun starts to rise in the east and you have to put the book down to get ready to go to work on no sleep, but don't care! Because you have ONE sick day left so you can finish it! You will know, Robert Jordan can write! And I hope he writes the next book in the series, QUICKLY! Scott A. Sievers

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Summary: The best series of all.
Review: The best series out there, bar none... Some folks think Jordan is 'ripping-off' Tolkien or Herbert. They will point out two or three or even ten similarities.... ignoring the hundreds of new inventions Jordan himself uses. Maybe, just maybe, if you take the vision of Tolkien, Herbert, and Donaldson, add the sheer writing brilliance of Brooks and Eddings - combine all of their high points and discard their lows, you just might have a start on Jordan. Can't wait for the next book.