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Summary: Hooked on the Wheel of Time!
Review: WOW! I bought this book by chance, and haven't stopped since. seeing book eight appear at the store made me grin with glee. RJ is by far one of the greatest masters of fantsay fiction. his complex yet interesting plot amazes me. I have read as much of the WoT series as possible so far and love it. I especially like the fact that the One Power is in the hands of women- go girls! I'm definately hooked, and reccomend this book to anyone who enjoys fantasy or adventure novels!
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Summary: GREAT
Review: This book is the start to a great series that has had mr captivated since the first word It is a must read for any fantasy or science fiction reader.
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Summary: Tolkien Reborn?
Review: I am all but convinced JRR Tolkien wrote "The Wheel of Time" and Robert Jordan was the lucky man that found them. Jordan has nearly rivaled the Master and has certainly set the mark for aspiring young fantasy writers. This book rings with the history and hidden secrets that make Tolkien's books so great. I especially liked the relation of the Trolloc names with "monster" names. (Bhan'sheen, Dha'vol, Dhai'mon, Ghar'gael, Ghob'hlin, Ghraem'lan, and Kno'mon for Banshee, Devil, Demon, Gargoyle, Goblin, Gremelin, and Gnome). The time Jordan spends on his books is reflected in the high quality but he can't write them fast enough to appease his fantasy starved fans. With only a handful of quality writers in the genre since Tolkien (Brooks, Alexander, Eddings...), I'm sure we will be enjoying Mr. Jordan's books for a long time. I recommend this book to any fantasy fan.
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Summary: One of the best books in the WOT series!
Review: This is the best book that I've ever read. If you love fantasy books and like the works of Terry Goodkind then you should start on this series at once!
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Summary: Neither Heaven nor Hell
Review: The reader reviews of this series tend to fall into the "Best Book Ever" or the "Horrible and Boring" extremes. I don't think either extreme is justified: The Wheel of Time series is interesting and entertaining, for those whose tastes run to long and detailed epic world-building. It is boring for those whose tastes run toward fast-paced adrenaline-laced action/adventure stories. Jordan is an author who knows the English language and uses vast quantities of it. But it is really too soon to know whether we have a "classic" or a "best seller" on our hands. And for those who compare this to the Lord of the Rings, remember that Tolkien's work distilled decades of imaginative creation into a trilogy. We have since seen the vast quantities of ideas, sketches, etc. that went into the Lord of the Rings -- through the tireless efforts of Christopher Tolkien to share many volumes of extra materials with us. (I've counted at least 10 volumes of materials released after J.R.R. Tolkien's death). By contrast, we get Jordan's work before his death . . .
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Summary: Echoes of a more leisurely time . . .
Review: What are you looking for in a series of books? Fantasy readers have various goals when they pick up a book, but a Jordan fan will find very attractive an imaginative narration in a world-building story. In Jordan, pages and pages are used to create an entire world and then to people it with nations, histories, traditions and cultures. In a sense, the characters are almost more vessels of cultural revelations than they are people. [This is not to say they are not carefully developed characters also -- merely that they are meant to be products of their particular part of the imagined world.] Jordan revels in building his world, and his writing has the luxurious sense of time and craftsmanship that seems to have been preserved from the pre-industrial world where most everything took more time. In other words, the writing is not full of fast-paced, Hemingway-esque action. Its pace is more like Anthony Trollope combined with J.R.R. Tolkien. A lot happens, but time is taken preparing each action, describing each action, and laying the foundations for the next action. If you enjoy this sort of sumptuous world-building, Jordan is for you. If you think it's all unnecessary fluff that gets in the way of the action, then go read someone else: Jordan will frustrate you.
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Summary: Hesitant approval .
Review: I have read seven of the eight books in this series and although an exellent book in its own right , EotW is the book I liked least . It lacked the expansiveness of the later books and the ending is a little flat , it seems to be left open to readers reaction . Also the style of writing lacks the assurance of his later works , perhaps due to insecurity about the concept and where it was going after this novel.
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Summary: It was the best fantasy book i have ever read!!!
Review: I read this book, because of a it was recommened to me and i was going to help program something that had to do alot to do with this book. I thought it wouldn't be that great but it has, and i think will be forever, the best fantasy book i have read. It jumped right into things and did not bore me for the first hundred pages about descriptions like most books do, but it gave plenty description at that. I recommend it to all who haven't read it.
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Summary: Not a bad read, but nowhere near the best.
Review: The Eye of the World is a little hard to get into, which is ok as there's well over 600 pages in all for the reader to settle in. The book seems to borrow quite a bit of plot from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, although in my opinion Jordan is not quite as good an author. There are times when the book definately seems to drag along and the ending is a bit dissapointing. I'm not sure if I'll read the others in the series yet or not.
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Summary: Very Good, The second time through
Review: Very engaging, start to the wheel of time series. Robert Jordan is excellent, the second time you read it. The first time that i read the novel, i was confused by some things, and wondered how he blatantly managed to plaigerize other fiction works (Perrins Sending - from Elfquest) However the later books depart this mold, and after reading some of the other books the first makes more sense.
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