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Summary: Greatest piece of work in the genre.
Review: This book is the most detailed and immersive book I have read yet. It took me a long time to get through the first cuple of chapters but once I got past those the book took off. What I like about RJ's way of writing is that he makes it so detailed. He developes real people instead of just your normal characters. The detail that he puts in the books makes you feel like you are really there. I have read the whole series so far from book 1 to 7 a total of 27 times and I intend to break 30 before the 8th book is out.
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Summary: The BEST fantasy series I've ever read !!
Review: I was a solid Terry Brooks fan (still am), but this series blew me away. I had seen the books many times in the bookstore, but until a friend recommended them I had only casually noticed them. After reading Eye of the World, I was hooked. I went through the first six books in about a month and a half, and awaited book seven Crown of Swords impatiently. Jordan's ability to take you to his world is incredible. If I was pressed to find a flaw in this series it would have to be that it isn't finished yet. I await book eight in Nov. ever so impatiently
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Summary: You looking for a super series? Robert J. has them!
Review: Wow. I have never read anything like this. I am a student in HS, and I hardly ever read. But this is way different. Being a teenager is time consuming enough; I found time for this book. This will make you forget about everything except what you are reading. A deffinate MUST!
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Summary: A wonderful start to a wonderful series.
Review: A wonderful cast of characters comes together in an epic that spans ages, as the wheel turns heros are born, and reborn. It's the third age, and the wheel turns again. The Dark One's prison is weakening, and the forces of the light must band together to face this threat to life. The forsaken are free, and the Dragon once again rides the winds.
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Summary: great piece of work
Review: Like the rest of the people, i though the beginning was bit slow, but i read it all and thoroughly enjoyed the last 500 pages. For me this is coming after I read the Terry Goodkind books. (aren't these two series' remarably similar) Though I'm not accusing of any plagarism, I find it hard to believe that so many things are so coincidentally similar. (stone of tears). oh well, what do i know. Congrats to Robert Jordan,for he was the first with the idea. Love the book snad can't wait until i get a chance to finish this series.
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Summary: A semi-poetic persona of middle age banality.
Review: After reading such authors as Terry Brooks, Piers Anthony, Mercedes Lackey and of course, Mr. Tolkien a good friend recommended The Wheel of Time series of books to me. Knowing that I am planning to publish my own fantasy novel soon, I reasoned that it would be more than a good idea to experience who the general public views as a master of the genre. The Wheel of Time never interested me in any other way.The possibly philosophical and extremely original premise of a Wheel of Time which cycles over and over again is both somewhat intriguing and underdeveloped. By beginning with simple Rand al'Thor and his acquaintances from Emond's Field, Jordan sets us up for his potentially fascinating exploration with no small lack of skill. A good foundation of the world is created in the first 100 pages and maintained thereafter, but not without sacrificing some originality. A powerful, knowledgeable person skilled in magic visits a gossipy farm town removed from all popular civi! lization in the belief that humanity's savior rests within? Not terribly creative, but nonetheless well done. The ensuing story which envelops the reader is both captivating and addicting. The threads sewn between such plot devices as Nynaeve's concern for those who left the Two Rivers and Perrin's revelation of himself by Elyas Machera go together very well. In addition the reader finds hints as to the motivations, desires and hidden depth in each of the main characters, most notably Egwene. Several scenes of requisite story-telling are present, such as the search for the Eye of the World, Mat's obsession with a certain possession and the story of Shadar Logoth--all told with a consuming amount of truth in their point. However, the book is not without its faults. Although the characters will go own to develop extra layers to their personality, they remain one dimensional and cliched in the first book. The climax is a pathetic, overused device for drama which ultimately s! ucks most of its anticipatory effect away. Furthermore, oth! er than the Aes Sedai order, allusions to the past and the Dark One's shadowy army, there remains too little fantasy in this book. It is almost as if it is a very trite poem written about magical personas in a alternate middle age. (Isn't most banal fantasy just that?) Still, the potential within and without is intriguing and ultimately amusing and worthy of the time to read this overly detailed book, even if the author hasn't a clue how to present a character or make an element familiar. Recommended for fans of the genre, but definitely for those who only like to dabble in fantastic literature a bit, this book will probably appeal to them far more than the avid fantasy fan.
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Summary: A series well worth the effort
Review: "The Eye of the World" is the first book of a marvelous adventure. Robert Jordan has created a group of sympathetic, confused, naive, brave, proud, wrongheaded (sometimes), and very human protagonists. He whisks them away from their comfortable home, a small rural village called Emond's Field, and thrusts them out into an adventure. He makes you like them and root for them and hope that, in the end, all of them -- Rand, Mat, Perrin, Egwene and Nynaeve -- make out ok. You wonder if you can really trust Moiraine, the inscrutable Aes Sedai who promises to protect them. You hope that the new friends they make on thier Journey -- Thom, Elayne, Loial -- also prove to be true. As the group becomes splintered and run from town to town, relentlessly pursued by monstrous beings, you can't help but wonder why? How can these young people from one small village be so important? And who is that Lews Therin guy anyway? With a humongous cast of characters, takin! g place over several different nations, populated with a wide array of cultures, this is a fun, messy, sprawling, engrossing series where you discover that these questions only just scratch the surface and you'll have many more. The great thing about this series is how so very *human* these people all are. While we readily expect ego, pride and base desires amongst the "bad guys", we also find that these all too human flaws are present among the "good guys". There are political intrigues, people jockeying for power, the "I know I'm doing what's right" self-righteous types (even if it really isn't), lack of communication, people working at cross purposes, mistrust,bad assumptions, prejudices, hatreds, war, sex, good old-fashioned "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" jealousy, prophecies, religious zealots, the inevitable whackos who surface during any turmoil, magic, insanity and just plain old Evil. While this series (8 books and! counting) inevitably has some books that are better than o! thers, it is definitely worth the effort to read, re-read, re-read again and enjoy.
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Summary: The best fantasy epic ever
Review: When I first got this book, I saw the sheer length of it and was appalled. I also found the beginning slow and kept continously flipping between the glossary and the story, but as the story unfolded, I couldn't stop reading it. This is definitely the best epics of our genre. I realized the slow beginning develops characters and the history of this vast land which makes the rest of the book easier to understand and moving faster. Despite the slow beginning, I still give it five stars because the beginning isn't boring and it serves a purpose.
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Summary: It starts out slow but stick with it. you wont regret it
Review: I HAD SEEN EOTW IN BOOKSTORES A LOT BUT I WAS ALWAYS AFRAID TO BUY IT BECAUSE OF ITS LENGTH. THEN FINALLY ONE DAY I BIT THE BULLET AND DECIDED TO READ IT. AFTER READING ABOUT 100 PAGES IN I HATED IT. IT STARTED OUT SLOWER THAN ANY OTHER BOOK I HAD EVER READ SO I DECIDED TO STOP READING IT. ABOUT ONE MONTH LATER I PICKED IT BACK UP SINCE I WAS BORED. I THEN READ MAYBE ANOTHER THIRTY PAGES AND WAS HOOKED FROM THERE AFTER. I THEN FINISHED IT AROUND A WEEK AND A HALF LATER. SO IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A GOOD FANTASY NOVEL PICK THIS UP AND READ 100 PAGES IN AND FROM THERE UNTIL THE LAST SENTENCE OF THE BOOK YOU WILL BE HOKKED.
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Summary: A wonderful start!!
Review: This is one of those books that is awesome as you read it, and only after you move on to the other books in the series do you realize how it was really just a beginning. For me, the series doesn't really get going until The Shadow Rising, everything else before that is just setting the stage! My favorite series by far!!
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