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Summary: Jordan fans beware
Review: I know a lot of people who dislike Jordan's more recent works, believing that he is stretching things for the sake of money. Now I'm convinced as well.Robert Jordan fans, this book is not a new book -- for several months I assumed that he was stretching his genre to encompass kids as well, perhaps trying to entice them to read his doorstopper adult series of fantasy volumes. There is nothing wrong with that. However, when I went into a bookstore and flipped through the first volume, I was astonished to see text from a book I HAD ALREADY READ. In short, Jordan took "Eye of the World", chopped it in half, sold the halves, and now is pulling in nearly twice the cash per copy. This book is the second half of EotW, with "From the Two Rivers" as the first half. The differences? Well, they are still thick; they do, however, have slightly larger print, so if you are an elderly Jordan reader you might want to purchase these. What changes are made for kids? Well, the ghastly adult covers are replaced by a more realistic, less weird-looking cover, and pictures are added to the inside. These were also a disappointment: the books might be better worth it if they had decent artwork, but the inside pictures are blurry and grainy, and not worth more than a fleeting glance. Writing style? I may be wrong, but if some kids don't have the attention span to get through "The Hobbit" or "Chronicles of Narnia," methinks they will never get beyond page two of Jordan's immensely detailed and complex doorstopper epic. My opinions qualitywise can be found elsewhere, as a review for the adult version of EotW. Unless a single 800-page tome scares your kid, or if you find the print easier to read, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. I can only hope that there will not be future one-book-made-into-two-for-kids editions.
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Summary: to the guy asking the hair question
Review: i think the tree is grabbing it, and she is trying to free herself by cutting off the hair the tree is holding/entangling, whatever. oh, and the book is good, too.
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Summary: I liked this book.
Review: In this second part of The Beginning of the Wheel of Time, Rand and his friends have fled from the city of Shadar Logoth overrun by Trollocs and Myrddraal. Sailing on the Spray ship down the Arinelle River, they decide to go separately to Tar Valon after hearing about a lost treasure, and to Caemlyn to talk to the Queen. But along the way they face many dangers along with their adventures. As Perrin, Elyas, and Bela are heading to the city, they run across the Tinkers, a group of traveling people. Stopping to visit with these strangers before moving on, they learn that the Tinkers are believers in The Way Of The Leaf, a way of living with people without using any violence. Meanwhile, Rand and Mat are struggling to survive on their own by trying to earn money and a place to sleep. They wind up entertaining people by playing the flute and juggling balls in exchange for the things they need. When Rand and Mat finally get to Caemlyn, they are relieved to find that the rest of their friends are alive. But they still face danger in the city of Caemlyn. Aginor, a wielder of the One Power and an ally of the Dark One, challenges Rand to a battle. Will Rand win against the One Power? Will he discover his true identity and destiny? I liked this book because it made me think about what I would have done if I had been Rand traveling with his friends. What would you have done to survive? TO THE BLIGHT is part of the classic fantasy series, Wheel of Time, and I think you'll enjoy them. --- Reviewed by AshleyH88
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Summary: Disappointed-Misleading
Review: Misleading. What was most misleading was part one "From the Two Rivers" has the lable on the front of the book that says "A New Prologue by the Author". The first book, "From the Two Rivers", does have a pre-prologue that I have not read before called "Earlier-Ravens". It is a 12 page depiction of Egwene (as a child) carrying water at Bel Tine in the spring during sheep shearing. I usually get my hands on everything I can that was written for the WOT series and I don't remember running across this bit of info. It was not worth buying the books for this pre-prologue. The rest of Part One "From the Two Rivers" and all of Part Two "To the Blight" are just "The Eye of the World" word for word, split into two parts. This was published by Starscape (a Tom Doherty Associates, LLC publisher)and not by TOR (also Tom Doherty). The cover art was done by another artist (Charles Keegan), not by Darrell K. Sweet.
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Summary: Disappointed-Misleading
Review: Misleading. What was most misleading was part one "From the Two Rivers" has the lable on the front of the book that says "A New Prologue by the Author". The first book, "From the Two Rivers", does have a pre-prologue that I have not read before called "Earlier-Ravens". It is a 12 page depiction of Egwene (as a child) carrying water at Bel Tine in the spring during sheep shearing. I usually get my hands on everything I can that was written for the WOT series and I don't remember running across this bit of info. It was not worth buying the books for this pre-prologue. The rest of Part One "From the Two Rivers" and all of Part Two "To the Blight" are just "The Eye of the World" word for word, split into two parts. This was published by Starscape (a Tom Doherty Associates, LLC publisher)and not by TOR (also Tom Doherty). The cover art was done by another artist (Charles Keegan), not by Darrell K. Sweet.
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Summary: Still the best series ever.
Review: Regardless of what these other reviewers have said (obviously they did zero research before buying the book) this is still the first book of the Wheel of Time series which is argueably the best series ever. Just because they split the book in two to introduce new readers is no reason to give a bad review. Although I wouldn't buy the book for extra 12 pages, it is still an amazing story, superbly written and is much easier to handle then the hugh 700-800 page volumes that are release. For anyone who reads Fantasy this book in either form is a must!!!
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Summary: A Book To Treasure
Review: The book was about was just the continuing story of the first book. I thought that the book was really good. But, from what I've seen in the reccomendations, not a lot of people like it. The book is closly related to the Lord of the Rings series except that this novel has a lot more magic, adventure, and scenes that make you panick to death. I really reccomend this book to the people out there who have the same tastes in books like me.
My favorite person in the novel was Mat. He is one of Rand's best friends. He likes to joke around and acked silly. But, he only does it in appropriate times and he makes the readers have a laugh at the most scary part of the book of all. Mat is also very mischievious and likes to play pranks on people which comes in handy when they are fighting the Trollocs.
For those of you out there that like this novel, you will like the secound book of the eye of the world called The Great Hunt. It also picks off where the book To the Blight left off. From there on the excitment builds on and and adventure, magic, and action takes place.
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Summary: repackaging
Review: This and part 1 is merely repackaging of the 1st hard-bound book [Eye of the World]. The advertisment reads as if it is a prequel. Wrong. The publisher just figured another way to make a few more dollars. The Eye of the World and all of the remaining books of "The Wheel of Time" are outstanding. They didn't need / require this treatment!
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Summary: repackaging
Review: This and part 1 is merely repackaging of the 1st hard-bound book [Eye of the World]. The advertisment reads as if it is a prequel. Wrong. The publisher just figured another way to make a few more dollars. The Eye of the World and all of the remaining books of "The Wheel of Time" are outstanding. They didn't need / require this treatment!
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Summary: Continuing a grand tradition
Review: This is only the The Eye of the World divided into two parts so children will have more of a desire to read it. Some kids would refuse to read 800 page books (some adults do too), so divinding it into two volumes with an added Prologue for the tinny-bops and extended glossary will sell more copies. There is not anything wrong with that and if you collect Wheel of Time books, you can add these to your collection.
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