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Summary: BEST BOOK EVER
Review: One of my favorite books ever written. The Eye of the World introduces the reader to an incredible world of epic adventures. far better than anything Tolkien even dreamed about. I've read it FOUR times!!! A must read for any fantasy fan.
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Summary: MY FAVORITE OF ALL TIME!!!!!
Review: When I started reading this book I wasn't sure what it would be like. (I picked out of random in the fantasy section at my local [book store]that's what I normaly do to find good authors.) I had heard about Jordan before but the books just looked so long I figured it would take me months to finish but I finished in four days because I simply couldn't put it down. It's a captivating storyline with well developed characters. I am not going to give away the storyline but I strongly urge anyone who reads fantasy or wants to start reading fantasy to begin with The Eye of the World and The Wheel of Time series. You won't regret your purchase.
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Summary: MY FAVORITE OF ALL TIME!
Review: When I started reading this book I wasn't sure what it would be like. (I picked out of random in the fantasy section at my local[book store]that's what I normaly do to find good authors.) I had heard about Jordan before but the books just looked so long I figured it would take me months to finish but I finished in four days because I simply couldn't put it down. It's a captivating storyline with well developed characters. I am not going to give away the storyline but I strongly urge anyone who reads fantasy or wants to start reading fantasy to begin with The Eye of the World and The Wheel of Time series. You won't regret your purchase.
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Summary: My personal favorite
Review: I have never loved a series as much as I love the wheel of time. I find myself reading it all the time, from in the car at stoplights to in the line at the grocery store. If I had to pick one book to be my favorite of all time it would be The Eye of The World. I highly recomend reading it no matter what age you are I read it for the first time when I was in seventh grade and I loved it then. I still love it now. If you like reading fantasy or if you don't I am genuinely sure you will love Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
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Summary: Robert jordan has done it again
Review: Im on book number 5 of this series and i never once got bored becasue this book is great the more you read it the more you like it and get to understand it. This is a series in which you have to read the first book. This book is the hardest to read because its the intro. but after that its a great series
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Summary: Doesn't live up to it's reputation
Review: "The Eye of the World" is probably the most famous fantasy novel written in the last generation, but it doesn't deserve to be. About the only thing that's going for this novel is the terrific ending, with a huge surprise waiting in the final line. But to get there, you have to wade through about 650 pages of tripe, and that's in the hardcover edition.For most of the book, the plot is fairly straightforward. There's a group of eight people who need to get from point A to point B, where point A is called The Two Rivers and point B is called Tar Valon. Meanwhile, an archvillian known as The Dark One sends overwhelming sinister forces to stop them. This portion of the book isn't developed with much skill, which is what makes it pretty boring. All that the good guys have to do is swing their swords around a few times and they can easily defeat entire armies of bad guys. One top of that, the good guys are led by an Aes Sedai (a female wizard) who can do more or less anything, so there's never any real sense of danger. The action scenes also grow very repetitive. For instance, there's one scene where our heroes are being chased by a horde of villians, but luckily they're able to run into a magic place where the bad guys just aren't willing to go. This exact same scene gets repeated twice later in the novel. Many people seem to think that the characterizations are one of this novel's strengths, but I don't agree. The main character is named Rand al'Thor, and the novel is supposed to show him changing from an ordinary farmboy into a great warrior. The problem is that he doesn't act like an ordinary person at the start; none of the five characters who grew up in a small down do. They all acts like soldiers right from the start. They're willing to plunge into battle without any hesitation, and the children always act totally grown up. I found the characters to be largely static and unbelievable. This certainly isn't a terrible novel. As I mentioned, it does have a wonderful surprise ending. Just don't expect to be swept away by it. Also, be sure to read the gloassary at the end, which is more entertaining than most of the book.
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Summary: Audio Cassette review
Review: Others have written much on this series on their written form. I wish to comment on the series as audio cassettes since the first book will be release for audio cassette purchase in October 2002. The readers for this series are second only to the reader of the Harry Potter series. I started listening to the series prior to the 9th book being released as I had forgotten many details. I had read the rest of the books several years before. These audio books, as well as the aforementioned HP series have spoiled me for audio stories forever and have become a standard to judge all other readers. I intend to purchase all the audio cassettes as they become available. The books come alive in a way that made me feel that I was experiencing the WoT series for the first time. It was a magical experience and I highly recommend these books in their audio form...even if you have read them. Unabridged version of course.
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Summary: Eye of the World - The start of an Epic
Review: This is the first book of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of time series. An wonderful and elaborate adventure begins with the disruption of the lives of 5 young friends. It is a coming of age story of how a young man awakens to a destiny he never wanted, but must fulfil or lose everything. Honor, combat, love, magic... this story has it all. The introduction is a bit slow, but once the story starts you won't be able to put it down. The story told in the Eye of the World series is complex, but Jordan manages it well throughout the first three books. The second book The Great Hunt starts where this one leaves off. While the two stories are complete unto themselves, you could actually glue the first two books together for one great story. The Third novel The Dragon Reborn, is set slightly later. It tends to focus on the female characters more, catching the reader up on what is happening to them. In many ways it is the climax, but in reality it is just the beginning. The story continues in an epic that now extends to 10 novels. This series was so compelling that for the first time I found myself buying the hardback simply because I couldn't wait for the paperback to come out. Out of the 9 I have read perhaps 2 were not upto the same high level as the others, but all in all this is one of the best fantasy series out there, matched only perhaps by Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series.
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Summary: A Great Book!!
Review: Eye of The World is an excellent book with many great plot elements that keep you guessing. Robert Jordan creates an epic world with many great flashback scenes that show the old days in the Age of Legends. The characters are so enthralling that I couldn't stop reading. The magic and the battles are so well-written that they paint a perfect picture of the scene in front of you. There are many characters but all are well-defined. The book is a bit on the long side but has great climaxes. The book has very little time where it is boring. Whether it be escaping from Trollocs or killing Fades, this book is full of action!!
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Summary: Trashy fantasy should be more entertaining.
Review: Robert Jordan writes awful prose. 'With his thick chest and broad face,' he writes of one of the characters, 'he was a pillar of reality in that morning, like a stone in the middle of a drifting dream.' I am astonished that the editors would permit such nonsense. Presumably merely to be irritating, Jordan always writes 'illumine' instead of illuminate, and 'amaze' (the antiquated noun) instead of amazement. Awkward sentences, silly metaphors, misused words, cliches (characters can 'feel that they are being watched', out-of-place modernisms and fake-sounding Olde Worlde utterances abound. Dialogue is weak. The characters seem always to be blushing or stammering or putting their feet in their mouths or pining for hot meals or rolling their eyes and saying 'Men!' in exasperated voices. Jordan often tries to narrate big slabs of history in casual conversations, is if by doing so he will make them interesting. The Eye of the World is heavily derivative of the Lord of the Rings, and Rand's relationship with the Aes Sedai sisterhood is almost a facsimile of Paul's relationship with the the Bene Gesserit in Frank Herbert's Dune. The volume also contains a Dune-like glossary of jargon, although here it is quite unnecessary. In Rand's village there is a family of slovenly good-for-nothings, one of whom is named 'Ewal', so perhaps Jordan is giving Harper Lee a tip-o'-the-hat too. Though it whiled away the hours and yielded some entertaining moments, I can't really recommend this novel. I found it difficult to like the heroes, who are constantly whining or feeling homesick or engaged in dreary soap opera dramas, and the evil characters haven't half the menace of Tolkien's balrogs and nazgul. There isn't much beauty, subtlety or depth in this novel, just copious spoonfuls of mundane action and drama. I could not immerse myself in the story most of the time, and I never felt the author was properly in control. I cannot help but wonder what the contemporary critics of J.R.R. Tolkien--especially the ones who considered his books 'boring, absurd or contemptible'--would have thought of this.
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