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Summary: Brilliantly written, but a horrible read....
Review: Where do I begin with this book? I waited about two years for this book and for what? To discover untold secrets of various groups of women that have made no impact on the plot in previous books, or perhaps it was to simply read a few pathetic chapters about the critical characters. No I know what it was, I waited all this time because this series has been so badly marketed that Jordan will lose between 40 to 60 percent of his readers in his next two books. I have discussed this with many fellow readers and many of them just do not give a damn any more. Don't get me wrong I love this series and I believe Jordan is a phenomenal writer, but the human attention span simply does not extend over a decade, and thats what it will have to for Jordan to keep his readers. I was absolutely disgusted at how bad path of daggers was. It was brilliantly written as always, but it was as boring, soooooo boring! I was tempted to simply leave it half read, but I pressed on and when I finished it, I was disgusted further in the knowledge that I would have to wait such a long time just to see what happened next! I love this series and I hate to see it go down hill. My advice to Jordan is to smarten up your act. You need to write this stuff faster, employ assistance if you have to, you simply cannot release a book with next to no plot development when it takes you about two years to write it! That is just unacceptable. Please just get your act together and write the series.
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Summary: Wheel of Time, that's enough for me.
Review: Really, as long as it continues the Wheel of Time story, most fans would be pleased (at least for a short while). The story -does- have its shortcomings, but perhaps the following books would serve to improve the quality of Path of Daggers somehow.As for the limited edition, firstly it's bound in green leather and comes in a matching slipcase, secondly it's limited edition (around 100-200 copies), thirdly it has Robert Jordan's signature in ink somewhere there. If you've got money, what the heck are you waiting for?
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Summary: Great Series, weak Book 8
Review: Pub:"Mr Jordan POD is great, but we have to milk the public for all its worth...so why don't we break this book into 2 parts...POD short version and then in Nov' we can release the 2nd part "Winters Heart". Each previous book had an "episode" quality. Meaning there was some conclusion while keeping the series alive. I got the impression POD was severely chopped up by the editor. Examples: Just when Egwene's Rebels are about to launch an attack.. cut ! Perins wife gets in trouble, he's on his way to rescue her...cut ! No mention of Matt (Is he dead or alive ?), er sorry Robert take that out, we can bring him in part deux "Winters Heart". This is the first time in the series I've seen such shoddy work. Maybe Jordan is struggling to continue series, maybe the publishers know the series is coming to a close...maybe thats why their stretching it. For the record, I'd did buy this book and and will continue buying them. Like I said great series !
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Summary: Fascinating, mesmerizing page-turner
Review: I've read the other reviews of this book on this page as well as Robert Jordan's comments and feel very strongly that many readers with negative reviews have been spoiled by the early books in the WOT series. It has been a long time since a series like this thoroughly engrossed me and had such a strong range of characters. Plus we've gotten to read a huge amount of well-written fiction that most publishers might have split into even smaller books. 1,000+ pages in any book, let alone a series of fantasy is a treat. I agree that POD was shorter than the other books in the series, but it seems clear (to me) that this is only a part of what will be told. I'm willing to wait, because I know that it will be worth it. If I was at all disappointed, it was because it ended too soon, but isn't that what makes us read it in the first place?
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Summary: Jordan's latest a disapointment
Review: I wish I could say that Robert Jordan - who is my all-time favorite author - has done it again. I'm afraid I can't. Although I enjoyed the read, and I still think Jordan has outdone Tolkien, it was a let down compared to the rest of the series. Obviously, Jordan intended it as a transitional volume between The Crown of Swords and the upcoming Ninth Book, but I felt like the storytelling was too rushed to carry the transition effectively. The Bowl of Winds sequence in the book's first hundred pages is almost as fast-paced as the climax scenes of the other books; this feels weird for a beginning but does make some sense considering the ending of the seventh book. There is not enough resolution in regard to the Seanchan; even the title implies that they should be the center of the volume's conflict. The book felt like it was only beginning when it reached that part of the plot, but it was already about two/thirds finished. Perrin's part in the story seemed thin. His conflict is introduced at the beginning, but nothing more occurs until the end of the book where no real progress is made versus Masema. Mat's absence is ... disturbing to say the least. My hope is that, like Perrin's lot in Fires of Heaven, removing him from the front for a while was really the only way to make the story work. (Somehow, I doubt this is the case.) The lack of explanation towards the Forsaken is not excusable. Cyndane is introduced and forgotten, Greandal is left moping in thin air, there is no real development in Mesaana, and Semirhage is absent. Why was Demandred introduced in Lord of Chaos only to be forgotten? There isn't enough development on Moridin's new title of Nae'blis, much less clues as to where he came from. Is he the reincarnated Betrayer of Hope? And did I dream the introduction of Osan'gar?! Is he or Demandred related in any way to Taim or Dashiva? I thought the circumstances of Sammael's death were a little iffy as well. (So much for "read and find out.") Developments in the Ashaman and towards the male sa'angreal were very interesting. I thought the plots surounding Elayne and company and around Egwaine were both well told and effective. Basically, I think Mr. Jordan has been trying to shorten his works after the lengthy fourth, fifth, and sixth books, and that the effort is biting him in the foot. I prefer a thousand-page volume that effectively maintains the story to a shorter but incomplete tale. (The purpose of transition is to tie up loose ends before the next phase, not to further unravel loose ends before attempting to move on.) Congratulations on another good read, Mr. Jordan. I eagerly await Book Nine, and I am as big a fan as ever!!!
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Summary: Great Series, weak Book 8
Review: Pub:"Mr Jordan POD is great, but we have to milk the public for all its worth...so why don't we break this book into 2 parts...POD short version and then in Nov' we can release the 2nd part "Winters Heart". Each previous book had an "episode" quality. Meaning there was some conclusion while keeping the series alive. I got the impression POD was severely chopped up by the editor. Examples: Just when Egwene's Rebels are about to launch an attack.. cut ! Perins wife gets in trouble, he's on his way to rescue her...cut ! No mention of Matt (Is he dead or alive ?), er sorry Robert take that out, we can bring him in part deux "Winters Heart". This is the first time in the series I've seen such shoddy work. Maybe Jordan is struggling to continue series, maybe the publishers know the series is coming to a close...maybe thats why their stretching it. For the record, I'd did buy this book and and will continue buying them. Like I said great series !
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Summary: Another excellent addition to Jordan's series
Review: I do not have the limited edition, but have read the Path ofDaggers, and if you have read any of Jordan's previous books in thisseries, you will like this. If you haven't read the series, you should. He has the best character development I have seen, and It is full of clues you will miss during the first reading, but each subsequent time you read the book, you will catch a few more hidden clues as to how the series will end. As far as the limited edition, I asked Amazon.com, and they told me it is A. Limited, and B. Comes with a leather cover. That is what makes it so much more expensive than the others.
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Summary: So what is "limited" about this edition?
Review: If you've found this page, you've noticed that it is for a 200$ US limited edition of the Path of Daggers. You've also probably noticed that there is no discription of what is unique about this version to merit the price. Is it like the leather-bound Lord of the Rings edition? Is it just a very early, first edition print? If anyone has bought this edition or knows something about it, will you please fill out a review and let us all in on it? I like to collect books, and so I'm dying to know. As to the story of the Wheel of Time and Path of Daggers in particular, I am a big fan. I don't pretend that it is high art, nor that PoD is as good as the other works in the series. It did answer a couple questions for me (Satelle Anan's background, for one; Lanfear's reimergence for another; Logain's most probable future; the identity of Dashiva; more support for the Taimandred theory [as if that were necessary!]) and it poses some great new questions for Book 9, which should be out between August and November of this year, according to Tor's website. As I am in the midst of trying to write my own fantasy novel, I can appreciate RJ's successes in PoD and empathize with him where he fails -- because the incredible richness of his world cannot be easy to keep up over the course of eight, very lengthy, assays at it. Hopefully, however, there will be more of the former and fewer of the latter in book 9, as the purported author comment, above, seems to suggest.
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Summary: It's Wheel of Time, and it rocks almost as hard as the rest!
Review: Book eight... Many negative reviews were written when this book came out. Truth is that there are not many die-hard action-events in this book. Truth is too, that some of the topics are considered not vrey interesting by some readers. It's still a fact though, that the online WoT-community is heavily alive, and that Robert Jordan still is really, really popular. What I'm saying is, that there are lots of people who liked book eight (like I do), but have never said that aloud, because there is no need to. People who judge books for money have to state an opinion, and if you're not into the series, I guess "Path of Daggers" is as interesting as you average book about fishing. Most of the fans like the book, other people don't. If you came to this pages, you most probably are a fan, so go buy! (I am very sorry for both grammatical and linguistical errors in this text. I'm not a native speaker)
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Summary: Jordan streches our Imaginations and his Purse
Review: I am a great fan of the Wheel of Time series, but Path of Daggers is without a doubt the slowest and possibly the worst book in the series so far. It dodders, stumbles and falls flat on its face mainly because about two incidents of any note take place in this story. The rest of the book seems to be just rubbish where nothing of any import is happening to fill up gaps. I think this was the reason the book seemed so laborious and slow-going. The story-line gave a feeling of being artificially stretched and the style of writting seemed different too. It was bleaker and there was a distinct lack of humor unlike in the rest of the series. I must admit the ending was rather promising but apart from that it seems Jordan is streching the story for the sake of streching it now.
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