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Summary: An awesome book.
Review: This is a great book. If you have free time, and trust me you'll need it, then this is a must read. Its a captivating fantasy book that explains the beginning of the Wheel of Time series nicely.
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Summary: Not the Greatest Book Ever...
Review: ...but not the worst.After reading all the angsty and angry reviews of this book and series (the esp. nasty ones from people who've read most of the series really had me scratching my head), I decided to pick up just the 1st book and see for myself how good/bad it really was (and it was last minute decision, picked up while on vacation). IMHO, not too bad of a decision. I've read LOTR and The Hobbit several times over the years, plus I've read 2 of Eddings' series (The Belgariad and The Mallorean, both hilarious reads) as well as other fantasy series, so I'm no newbie to the fantasy genre. Yes, it's a bit overlong, and towards the end I kept saying to myself, "Get on with it!" However, there were many passages where reviewers got bored and I didn't: Rand and Mat going from town to town and finding Darkfriends in them (and they DID start trying to sneak into towns after awhile; Moiraine describing Manetheren to the Emonds Field people; Perrin understanding wolves (bias: I *love* anything to do with wolves); Perrin, Egwene, and Elyas coming into contact with the Traveling People; the meeting of the Green Man. You get the idea. Now the characters themselves. Mat annoyed me no end, although once he got that dagger, I felt he started to get interesting (in a dark way). Rand seemed bewildered by it all, making him too goofy; humorous characters are fine, but he was too bumbling until some passages near the end of the book. Perrin was interesting from the beginning, and I thought his dealings with the wolves was one of the most interesting parts of the book. Thom Merrilin had me chuckling, and I was sorry to see him disappear (hopefully he's not dead). Lan was almost too distant for me, and I found him even more annoying than Mat (and much more boring). The women are a mixed bag. I liked the way Moiraine used her powers and her stoic stance in the face of danger (at least that's what I got out of it). Nynaeve was too whiny and full of herself, and I have to agree with the one reviewer who wondered where the feelings for Lan came from: There weren't even any hints suggesting it! As for Egwene - what Rand sees in her is beyond me. She's petty, a tease, and stuck up, and I couldn't stand her. Maybe if there were more passages where we saw things from her p.o.v. I might have looked at her in a more positive light. As to another reviewer saying that Egwene "lusted" after Perrin - I just don't see where this happens. She flirts with a young Traveler while Perrin is beginning to wonder about his wolfish abilities, but I don't remember reading anything about Egwene going after Perrin. Maybe that reviewer hadn't read this book in awhile. So...all in all...a good read, and yes, I love detailed descriptions (although even I have to admit I skipped over some of it). Some of the characters were good, others were not, but overall, it's a decent story. I've already purchased the 2nd paperback, The Great Hunt. I don't think this is something I'll read too often (unlike Tolkien), but it makes for an enjoyable read.
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Summary: a great start
Review: I dont understand all this talk about length. The length is necessary to compliment the plot. Read this book and you will get hooked immediately...trust me!! If your into vast detail and in depth character portrayal pick this up and the next 300 that come out. The one thing that always keeps you going is the prophecies, I always find myself waiting for the dragon to fulfill the prophecies and it is amazing how Rob brings it all together. It's all about Rob and taint.
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Summary: My thoughts on The Eye of the World, almost a decade later..
Review: It has been almost 10 years since I started reading the Wheel of Time Series and it still remains in my head as one of the most interesting and compelling stories I have ever read. The secret to Robert Jordan's success and longevity is his ability to take elements from Eastern and Western mythologies and integrate them into a believable tale of complicated character relationships. For those of you who do not know, Jordan was a former Dungeons and Dragons player, and this is demonstrated in his ability to create believable fantasy. He owes a great debt to authors such as Tolkien and Chaucer, but has created a series truly orignal in its scope. He is able to bring the genre into modernity, with his exploration of overzealous religious followers, the relationships between men and women, and the hundreds of characters who clash with each other, despite being on the same side. Problems with series length aside, the Wheel of Time is quite an accomplishment.
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Summary: So bad it's almost good
Review: The Wheel of Time series is a huge franchise, with an illustrated companion book and even a computer game based on its story. "Nine gazillion readers can't be wrong!" said I. "Why not give it a shot?" This was a huge mistake. The Eye of the World is a horribly uninteresting book, though not for a lack of words. Anything resembling a plot point occurs very rarely and when it does, it's doesn't evoke any emotion other than surprise. This is because the author fails to make you care about any of the charicatures involved in the action. You'll read hundreds and hundreds of pages for anything of note to occur. In the end, you're left feeling that something interesting might, in fact, occur, but not in this book. This tome could have been condensed into a pamphlet, which would have made for much more enjoyable reading. The only possible audience for this book is the reader who enjoys a very, very thorough description of people walking and riding horses for a very, very long time. Either that or people who feel that the character development in Spider-Man comics is too complicated. However, the book is not entirely without merit. Some of the author's descriptions, dialog and characters are so trite and ill-conceived that I actually read them aloud to friends. None has failed to turn red laughing. Particularly glaring here is the description of the gypsy-like people who the author says "look like they were dancing, even when standing perfectly still." Oh, that's deliciously fanciful! In fact, I might even go so far as to say that a compilation of the more scintillatingly maudlin passages would make for a fantastic book. I would buy it. Until such a book is made, however, I would advise you to steer clear of this one ...
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Summary: Great!
Review: A friend of mine told me to buy this book by Robert Jordan, and I absolutely loved it. The action flows non-stop throughout this book. My heart was pounding almost the whole time. I actually cried in some parts! Amazing! Go buy it. You'll be so happy you did!
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Summary: Best Book Ever!!
Review: Robert Jordan masterfully tells this story. Every pages leaves you yearning for more. And unlike Tolkien the women have very strong and important roles. The ending perfectly closes the story and demands you to read the next. The perfect book for any fantisy lover or even someone mildly interested in that type of book.
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Summary: DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME
Review: This book doesn't compare to George Martin's Song of Ice and Fire. While Jordan endlessly discusses dozens of topics that have nothing to do with moving his storyline along, you, the reader are stuck hopelessly waiting for something interesting to happen. To think that there are a dozen or so more books in the series makes me cringe. Pick up a copy of Martin's series, and you will one day thank me for it. Martin's focus on character development and story puts The Wheel of Time to shame.
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Summary: THe Eye of the World
Review: If you are a type of person that loves action and is a fantasy lover you will love The Eye of the World. It is about three young boys that go on a journey and one of the boys named Rand finds out that he is the Dragon Reborn, a person that will have to save the world from the Dark One at the final battle. This book is the first book of the series so read this first before reading the rest. Throughout the series Rand for fills prophesies without trying. If you are a person that loves series books and like over detail stories, this is a book you will like. This is by far the best book I have ever readied and it has one of the best plots, too. BY William
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Summary: Where's your editor?
Review: This starts as a nice tight story. It has a lot going for it. But I get the feeling that the author has gotten the opinion of Himself that He is to good to be edited. Let me at it with a big eraser and a magic marker!!!!!
Is there nobody at TOR with a backbone? Face up to this man with EL MARKO drawn and cut the soap opera stuff out (How many ways can I describe a flinty-eyed look) and let the story take over, let the characters actually DO something. I have been in plays like this, when the director worships Shaw, you're in trouble. This is MY windy way of saying= Good Story but Too Many Words. Read it with a pen in hand. You will need to keep a character list going, who they are, which side they are on etc. They will show up a few books later. Every one of these books is at least twice as long as it needs to be.
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