The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, Book 1)

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Summary: Incredible!
Review: This is fantasy at its best. This is fantasy for people who would normally avoid fantasy. The characters are constructed with an incredible attention to detail, and simply seem to come alive on the page. The plot, though it may be a bit slow at the very first, grabs on and won't let go. Jordan has constructed an entire world in this book, and he gives hints at other worlds to come. This is the book that convinced me that there was such a thing as *good* fantasy, and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good book

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Summary: Awesome Literature
Review: The Eye of the World is a GREAT book. Robert Jordan's books are like a warp into another demention, a demention that you won't want to come back from. He makes you feel as if the characters lived just down the street. Planning on reading only for a half hour, I've been endulged in his books for over four hours non-stop! Sometimes only stopping so as not to die from starvation. If you've already read his first book he has six more just as fantasti

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Summary: You mean it isn't a history book?
Review: Jordan creates a stunningly realistic world of fantasy. He manages to reflect items of our lives and put them in fiction. The book create's a vivid image of the magical Aes Sedai and their warders, the Dark One and his followers, and in the middle of it three country children who are in way over there heads. This book will be hard to put down

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Summary: ...just need to add my two cents.
Review: Look, everyone has written everything about the supremacy of this series. Simply put: you'd better read everything else you want to read BEFORE reading this series because it effectively renders virtually all other novels second-rate. You have been warned. Let the Dragon ride..

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Summary: Epic High Fantacy when it is best !!
Review: An outstanding start on the very best fatacy series in the world. Starts at a slow pace, but then build momentum as the story unfolds.... Jordans world is loaded with history and when you read the books you feels like you stepped into a real world. Buy it and read it and read it and read it. I've read the whole serie five or six times and I KNOW that before I buy the next i'll have read it again.

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Summary: The first in a series of wearisome trudges up a sand dune
Review: Jordan's work is fantastic! These are the rave reviews of friends and family regarding Jordan's Wheel Of Time series. Fantastic indeed! The book is so overdone with useless detail it reminds me of a recent hike of mine up a gargantuan sand dune near the Empty Quarter: I thought I'd never get to the top. But I went on, waiting expectantly for the breathtaking panorama that would overwhelm me. However as I crested the dune what did I see? More of the same dull, labour intensive trekking ahead of me with Jordan's dunes stretched out endlessly before me. Endless because of the anticlimactic non-resolution which I'm certain is part of Mr. Jordan's marketing strategy. Well, Mr. Jordan, you can ply your wares elsewhere. I'd rather read the sales brochure for a vacuum cleaner

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Summary: Absolutely spellbinding!
Review: This book will capture you like a hungry shark. Jordan displays a world that is so real, so three-dimensional, you feel that you are able to reach out and touch the characters. Lavishly described settings provided an immensly rich background in which these characters were placed, giving even more of an edge to this captivating book. Page after page, you will want to know more about this adventure story that completely alters the previous bounderies of the fantasy genre. This book is destined to become a classic, so set a place between Tolkien and Asimov. Hey, the Wheel weaves and the Wheel wills, doesn't it?

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Summary: Engrossing
Review: In 1990 Robert Jordan published The Eye of the World, the first volume in a series called The Wheel of Time, and with it initiated what will become the finest epic fantasy series ever penned. Reading The Eye of the World is like opening a door, walking into the unknown, and watching a highly intricate world being woven around you. Jordan's characters seem as palpable and solid as people you know from life itself. His protagonists are imperfect; they have flaws that make them far more believable than the typical omnipotent and virtuous hero usually seen in fantasy. Jordan has employed and borrowed from many facets of several legends and mythologies, ranging from Ireland to the Far East. This provides his world with a sense of familiarity as well as a sense of wonder. The world created by Robert Jordan seems truly breathable. He has created a world that, once entered, is saddening to leave

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Summary: A "MUST HAVE" for anyone who loves fantasy
Review: This epic series of books is destined to become a classic to be kept right next to Tolkien

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Summary: A book to keep you up till the wheel if broken!
Review: The book is the beginnning of a new wave to hit the fantasy book market. This is only the first of several, but delicatly sets a firm foundation for unstanding in the other books. This book, is a definate 10. Robert Jordan can now been seen as the next J.R.R. Tolkien