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Summary: Excellence
Review: This is an exellent series. However, if you have the attention span that allows you to watch only music videos and the shortest of commercials, I would say don't even bother. I have been reading for over 20 years now in my life. I have come to a point where more is better. A trilogy of 3 books 350 pgs long each is just not long enough anymore. That is like 2 weeks of reading. And I am pretty sure I am not alone in this. I have heard it said that Tolkien himself said TLOTR was too short. You will not have that problem with Robert Jordan. All the characters are well developed. The plot is intricate, and the world is rich in culture and believablility. I hope RJ continues to put out books until the series is finished, even if it takes 20 books. This is an exellent series, just be prepared to spend a lot of time reading it, and be prepared to have to wait for more books to come out. Sometimes anticipation makes things better.
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Summary: I really don't get it...
Review: Being desperate for something to read lately, I snagged this book a while back with the idea that since there are a zillion books in the series, with about a zillion pages each, if I liked it this could conceivably keep me with reading material for most of the rest of my life. I was hopeful that I would like it...after all, a number of friends had recommended it, the thing has sold some ridiculous number of copies, and I'd heard Jordan compared to Tolkien enough times that I was almost ready to believe it. Tolkien he's not. Jordan's not even a good writer, and no one who's actually read both ought to even consider making a comparison. If I had to make a comparison, it would be to some of the TSR Dungeons and Dragons novels. Of course, these things sell like crazy, too, so maybe quality is not as important to some people as it is to me. The books are 800 pages long for a reason...Jordan blathers on about every little thing, so you can spend all night reading and nothing has even happened. The characters are flat and uninteresting, and everything is needlessly complex...the plot twists in ways which prove unimportant, characters appear and disappear without ever serving the slightest purpose. Jordan tries hard to emulate Tolkien. It's almost painful, he tries so hard. But unlike Tolkien's masterfully constructed prose, Jordan has wandering, complicated sentences, which sound like a middle-schooler's attempt at "good" writing, lots of cliches, convolutions. He tries to create a world as deep and complex as Tolkien's, but rather than the feeling of seeing only part of a vast and complicate reality, it just feels to me like he throws lots of names at you, most of which never appear again. He also rips off large chunks of plot straight from Tolkien. It is a horrible book? No...it's readable, and while I doubt I will bother to purchase volume two, I don't feel like reading it was a complete waste of time. But I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I really can't fathom what people see in this book.
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Summary: ogie boy
Review: rand can channel, so can egwene and elayne, and nynaeve. mathas a lot of luck and he gets a lot of money. moraine dies. a lot of the forsaken die. rand is the dragon reborn. he is very powerful. he gets the aiel's help from the waste. Tam is not his real father, somebody from the aiel is. perrin can talk to wolves and he goes back to the two rivers. Queen Morgase of Andor is gone, but she will come back later, i think. rand learns how to wield the power from forsaken named Asmodean. Rand kills two forsaken at the end of the first book. He kills a lot more later. bye bye.
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Summary: A great Fantasy but.....
Review: Let me state that I admire and envy Robert Jordan and his ability to write as well as he does. This review is not only about The Eye of the World but about the series over all also. I admit I am only through the first 3 books but here are my observations. The Eye of the World is an excellent book which I could not put down. The characters are very interesting and the story is great. Thus it deserves 4 stars. It does not get 5 stars because it is no great piece of literature when comparing it to such authors as Tolkein (in the fantansy genre), Graham Greene, Dickens, Poe, Homer, Stephen King (his early works), etc. At the end of the third book of the series I realized that Jordan should have ended it by the end of the fourth book. That was long enough. I am now getting the impression that he is basically attempting to just make money (by keeping you coming back) more than anything else. This sounds obvious but I think authors should be more proud of their craft. He must have a good imagination or he would not be able to write fantasy this good. Can he not come up with a new story and series? The characters in the Wheel of Time series seem to mysteriously gain power just when it is needed and then later seem vunerable to stuff that appears weaker than what they just defeated a 100 pages back. It is obvious that this is just to keep the story going beyond its natural life. Some of the dialog between the female characters appears to be a vain attempt to give them personalities. I admit that I still can't get a grasp on some of the main character's personalities (they seem slightly different from one book to the next). Others I seem to know well. So there is a weakness in the writing there. It is like Jordan had a particular character sketch in mind for a figure in the book but then, when he started writing the next book, he re-thought the character slightly. I read the first 3 books in under 6 weeks (and that is with a young family and a job), so they are interesting books. I am just starting to see the weakness in the series over all. I will read book 4 of the series (since it got 4.5 stars)but I may not go beyond that.
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Summary: A wonderfull master peace story
Review: To create a fantasy world it's very easy.
But, to make it so realistic and convincing is only for masters.
Robert Jordan is a true science fiction story master.
A lot of readers like fantasy books, due to the fact they want
to live in such a world, where magic and fantasy rulles. and
Robert Jordan fullfeels your wishes.
I couldn't stop reading this first book of Wheel Of Time and in one month I have finished it.
The fantasy world is unique, the characters and also the magic.
This is the story of Rand Althor, a farm boy who suddenly realizes he is the chosen to fight against the greet lord of
evil, with the aid of his best friends.
Every character has it's own interesting character as Jordan
knows to create. Some places are creepy and when the action begins, your heart starts to beat, as if you watched a thriller.
And sometimes you also smile for the funny plots.
Those who say it's like Lord Of The Rings don't know what they are talking about. it's realy different.
And also the girls would like to read it, because women take in Jordan's world a leading part in most cases.
And finally if you want something more realistic in sense from
"Lord Of The Rings" and "DragonLance" this is the book for you.
This is just the first one among others and every book depends on each other. so, if you haven't read it you wan't understand what's going on in the other parts.
This is a must have !
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Summary: A Series to be Remembered
Review: This book is an epic journey through a world unknown to us, one that Jordan reavealed to us in rich detail and with characters that have intricate personalities. In this book, there are two magic sources, male and female. The male source has been corrupted, so many men who try to weild it are killed. The females who use it are the manipulative Aes Sedai. Ba'alzaman (the evil character)is trying to take over the Eye of the World (thus the title) and the naive Edmond's Fieldes, the ta'veran, have to stop him with the help of Lan, the Warder, and Moraine, the Aes Sedai. Based on this book, I expect that the next ones will be just as interesting.
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Summary: The Eye of the World
Review: A cold, bitter, snowless winter when it should have been summer. Wolves grow numerous and the ravens spy. A mysterious stranger travels the roads, a rider whose cloak is untouched by the violent, bitter winds. Thus begins The Eye of the World, the first book of the legendary #! New York Times bestselling series, The Wheel of Time. And with the night comes horrors out of legend, raiding the Two Rivers and the surrounding villages, sending three young men - Rand, Mat and Perrin - with their companions, Moraine, Lan, Egwene and Nynaeve on a voyage across distant lands to save all humanity, earth and time itself. With four dimensional characters,a vivid vision and the most complicated plot of any story, Jordan transcends the fantastic, discoering a tale truer than any textbook, a story for all stories, a legend for all time.
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Summary: good book but tries to be too much like Lord of the Rings
Review: i am only in the middle of this book right now, but so far it is an excellent book. the only thing i dont like about it is that he tries to much to be like tolkien. and, he almost goes into to much detail. some of the names of his places are very very close to those in Lord of the Rings (the best fantasy trilogy ever written if u ask me). but other than that it is a very good book.
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Summary: Don't Buy This Book!!!
Review: The book is vastly enjoyable and is individualy wonderful. It does however set up a terrific dissapointment with the rest of the series. The eye of the world is full of action, adventure and wonderful characters but the books following get steadily worse and slower and negligent to main characters by introducing a torrential amount of people that do absolutely nothing more than confuse any reader. Please do yourself a favor and run as far away from this series as you possibly can (I reccomend new balance shoes).It's absolutely amazing how the first book can be so good yet he manages to ruin it so thoroughly. The last four books are so pointless its almost funny. Almost. Well i dont want to do a Jordan, (I KNOW HOW TO MAKE IT STOP).
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Summary: a begining
Review: there i was tentivly stepping into the adult fantasy section and for the first time i was planning on buying somthing. having read all the books in the young adult fantasy section i was faced with the choice of jerry springer after school or the new world of the adult fantasy section. my fingers slowly brushed the titles but nothing caught my attention, i liked books with adventure and action with maybe a hint of romance and the essential heroine. i then gave up shoulders sagging- defeated. but as i was stepping out of the asile somthing caught my eye i picked it up and opened it- the begining was slow but after all it was just a begining- so i sat and commenced to reading. an hour later i shuffled off home with my new book "the eye of the world" by robert jordan. if the story seems slow to you in the begining its simply because you are in... the begining so please stick with it because this is a great series and if you are like me "braving" a new genra keep in mind that this book has helped me walk into the adult fantasy section with my head held high.
thank you for reading
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