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Summary: Wonderful, needs a bit more to the plot tho
Review: I liked the book, the book heats up a little in the second half, but the book is really justr a transition between ACoS and the book Following APoD. Robert Jordan and Tor would have been better off to release the two in close unison (but I am glad I don't have to wait the extra year or more for that to happen). Can't wait for the next book (another long wait....man...)
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Summary: Too much of a good thing?
Review: While I concur with (what appears to be) the (common) sentiment that RJ's latest book in the series seems more transitional than a work that moves the plot forward, I can't help but wonder if this is not more the byproduct of an over-rich story than a overt move to pad the bottom line. Looking at the story as it has unfolded over the last (ten?!) years it seems that PoD demonstrates that the series has reached the point where the vast number of rich characters and *concurrent* story lines has made any single volume unable to address them all sufficiently. Characters and/or subplots that are reintroduced after having been on sabbatical for a volume or more are no longer recognizable. At the least they are unfamiliar until a fair amount of story has passed to refresh my memory. For me, the net result has been that I spend as much time trying to figure out where the story has been as where it is currently going! (Maybe this is why I tend to enjoy the second half of his novels more than the first.)In the end I find RJs work to be extremely well done. However, I sincerely hope that he begin to rein in some of the diverging threads in the next volume so that those of us who patiently (ok, not so patiently<g>) wait for the next book to trickle out can continue to follow the story without having to take a refresher course beforehand.
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Summary: Please Mr. Jordan, finish the story!
Review: I love this series! But I've spent too much money on the books! The way that Robert Jordan writes leaves me in great anticipation of the next book. I'm sooo curious about how it will all turn out! On with the next book!
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Summary: There are neither beginnings nor ending to the P of Daggers
Review: Mr. Jordans very famous line is how he has begun almost every book in this series. But in the Path of Daggers, there really isn't any beginning nor ending. It was just lackluster ramble about a bunchof women who cackle about and feel insecure about their own part in the book. There is only one other series that I was even bothered to see how it ended - Raymond E. Feist's "The Serpentwar Saga." While the Wheel of Time as a series was a fantastic effort until now, I very much fear that a repeat of the Path of Daggers will only bring about an early Tarmon Gai'don to the series. Pleas sir, as so many of your faithful readers has already put it, "Get on with it!"
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Summary: God, this is so unfair!!!!
Review: I waited two years for another Lord of Chaos or Fires of Heaven. Jordan, (while still writing with his normal flare and signature) lowered his plotting in this one. From the Eye to the Crown he weaved the richest web ever and now . . . well, let's just say he dissapointed me a tad bit. I guess we'll just have to wait ANTOHER two years to see how the next one'll turn out. I'd love to see TOR start publishing Jordan's book more frequently, I hate to think that when a book like this comes out I'll have to wait two years to be assuaged.
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Summary: I waited and waited, and now I have to wait again !
Review: Robert Jordan has invented a whole world that one can hide in for weeks, it has seriously affected my social life ! I, however feel that the publishers are playing a very cynical game with us poor readers. Book 8, The Path of Daggers seems to be merely a "join" between book 7 and book 9. So many questions arose in the previous book that I and millions of other hungry fans couldn't get this book fast enough. A book of over 700 pages, The Path of Daggers neither fulfills any outstanding mysteries nor does it provide us with anything meaty to further the story. It is obvious that Robert Jordan has warmed to the subject, the book races along, but a cynical part of me whispers that maybe Robert didn't really have the time for this bit of the project or maybe there was a lot more to it before it went to the publishers. I think that Robert Jordan and Tor could have done much better by launching this book and the next back to back, or simply making them into a larger book. Come on guys, you should be able to do better than this.
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Summary: A disappointing addition to Jordan's impressive series
Review: I have been reading Jordan since a few months before _The_Shadow_Rises_ was published, and, have, for the most part, been very, very impressed with: the "complexity" and strong causal linkages in the plot, the strong sense one got of the World (with its myth and history) in which the story was set, and the vividness with which I have come to think of the characters' personalities. The series has, in many ways spoiled me for reading most of the other fantasy novels and series I have since tried to read. The previous book (_Crown_of_Swords_) was somewhat disappointing in what felt like its lack of plot development, but I dismissed it as something of a transition book that moved the chess pieces into place for the great things that were just about to happen. This latest book seems perhaps even more disappointing in this respect. While it is true that plot threads have continued to lengthen and some of them even to move closer to being woven together, the book overall feels very much as if that is all that has happened; pieces have merely moved a bit closer towards those now-long-foreshadowed/foreseen plot conflicts, slowly increasing the tension throughout the book with precious little resolution of any of that built-up tension. I was left with the feeling that the plot buildups from the last book are simply continued here, becoming not so much more tantalizing as simply more frustrating. Perhaps I have just been reading this series for too long. Not only am I feeling as if I want things to happen more quickly than they are, I am becoming conscious of some of Jordan's stylistic quirks, especially in his diction and phrasing. I found those quirks becoming irritating as the book wore on, perhaps because I did not have satisfying tension-releases on which to focus. Overall, while I am glad to have read it (it *is*, after all, a new Wheel of Time novel), I find that it has insufficient internal drama as a book in general, and as a book in this series, lacking both in that internal drama and in its contributions to all the plot threads he has previously spun out.
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Summary: a little slow for Jordan but still a wicked good book!
Review: PoD starts out pretty slow for a Jordan book but don't let it fool you. He packs a lot of action into the second half of the book. Onle four stars because I'm starting to realiz just how long it takes him to say something. There are some really surprising turns of events and some odd coincidences but if you're a die-hard wheel of timer you should expect that by now :-)
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Summary: 90% Fluff. Same characters, different names.
Review: I like Mr. Jordans "Wheel Of Time" books. "Eye of the World" is one of my favorite books. It alone will keep me reading Mr. Jordan's books. But the books are getting to be less than telling a story and more of milking a franchise. I can sum up the first 100 pages in a few short words - EVERY female character feels: strong -yet weak, in control - but not in charge, rebellious - yet bound by tradition, domineering - yet submissive, powerful - yet weak, deadly - but hesitant, confident - yet unsure, forceful - yet afraid, admired - yet abused, in love - yet spurned. The only difference in characters is the degree of these attributes, their dress and land of origin. At the end of these character descriptions, they use a bowl and the weather is fixed. There is way too much character garbage. New characters are introduced who are exactly like previous characters. Old characters just disappear. Old characters/villians could easily perform the function of the new without all the confusion of who did what, for whom, to whom and why. One of the main characters, Matt, isn't even in the 700 page story! Finally, two of the biggest events get the smallest description. Rand destroys the Seanchen army and Faile is captured by the Shaido. Faile's capture is only 1 chapter! It seemed it was just an add on at the end. Alot less time could have been spent on the incessant female whining and more on the description of the events. After 8 novels, I'll stick by Mr. Jordan and hope for better in the future.
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Summary: I'm badly disappointed with the pace of the story
Review: Although I discovered the series only recently I have enjoyed reading through from book one to seven in no time. So I already ordered book 8 some couple months ago. Amazon delivered and I started reading by the minute. The story itself still is as fascinating as it's been starting at the first book, and I also like the style of Jordan's writing, but I expected way more from the story. Sure there are some significant events but I have the feeling that it turns more and more into some sort of a soap opera. There's one hint here and another unresolved action there ... You'll know the answer to that (hopefully) in the next book. So well ... after having read the proloque only I expected to rate it at five stars. However after reading the whole book I can't give more than two.
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