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Summary: Epic
Review: Jordan's Wheel of Time series has taken the fantasy epic and given it fresh direction. The characters are entirely plausible, their actions and reactions in this hugely developed world are accurate and believable. The sheer scale of the series makes it worth reading. It is up there with any top ten fantasy series you must read.
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Summary: THE BEST FANTASY SERIE EVER!
Review: With the first book of Robert Jordan's Wheel of the Time series a complete new world has opened for me. In this book Rand, Mat, Perrin and Egwene leave their home Two Rivers to find out what The Dark one wants of them after some trollocs have attacked their homes. This world is very believeable even though it's not like our world. I have read all books in the series and I highly recommend anyone who have the slighest interest in fantasy to read the books! The main characters is very different, my favorite is Perrin, the wolf brother... Even though this is a world where good versis evil, the good guys are not always what they seem to be and darkfriends are hidden everywhere...
Buy this book and you will never be able to stop reading!
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Summary: An Epic Foundation
Review: The Eye of the World introduces the reader to a very Tolkienn-like world filled with evil, magic, politics, and love. Jordan is a bit too wordy towards the beginning, but his style grows on you the more you read.The one thing that separates Jordan from most other fantasy novelists is that his characters have depth and that women have a place of prominence. At first the women seem to all be arrogant and domineering, but as the story progresses the vast differences between the different women and the full depth of their personalities manifests itself. Jordan makes this world feel alive and mysterious and these feelings only grow as the reader continues through the next few books. This is arguebly the best fantasy series since Tolkienn.
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Summary: Highly entertaining
Review: This is the start of the enormous, and, to be blunt, somewhat bloated, Wheel of Time series. Yes I said bloated, but you know what? I don't care! I love the Wheel of Time, and if the Path of Daggers was a bit rubbish really, oh well, I still love it. People compare this series sometimes to a soap opera, and it's probably not entirely unfair to do so, but everyone has to have some guilty pleasures. It's not great literature (although The Great Hunt and The Shadow Rising individually have a claim to be considered so), and I'm not convinced it was ever intended to be. It's hugely entertaining, particularly for people like me who always wish their favourite series would never end. It's certainly some of the best fantasy ever written, and quite possibly the most detailed world ever created. It's basic themes may ultimately be derivative (simple guy turned Messiah), but Jordan invents more than enough new elements to keep his saga fresh. Let's move on to this book specifically. Sure, the begining is stolen from Tolkien - but Jordan himself has actually admitted he did so. It's something of a homage I suspect (more to the point, the series rapidly drops virtually all its Tolkien connections after the first book). The story is a bit linear (the last time that can be said of the Wheel of Time - later volumes go far too much into the complete opposite direction), but there is effective tension throughout the book, as the heroes are chased across half the continent by usually unseen monsters and the occasional human cohorts. I like Jordan's descriptive prose, even if I do sometimes skim some of the more purely descriptive paragraphs, it is, as he has stated is his aim, very cinematic, and you can imagine yourself right there in the book. My main problem with this book are two points which are very confusing, the first due to unclear use of flashbacks, and the second just due to poor writing I suppose. As I recall, I never had this problem again in any later books. The main strength is the characters, who I find very engaging and sympathetic, and that's the reason why I recommend this series to everyone, and why I keep reading it. If you like long fantasy, I highly recommend you read the Wheel of Time series. If you don't, well, go read Guy Gavriel Kay I guess (but please, stay away from Terry Brooks).
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Summary: A great beginning to a wonderful universe
Review: When you open the cover this book, you are immediatly pulled into the world of Wheel of Time, a ride soo intense that it will not let you out until you finish that last page, and close the now bent cover and finally are allowed to shut your eyes. This books is absolutely amazing. It is a brilliant start to the wonderful Wheel of Time series. What starts with what seems to be a little problem, blows up into an adventure of mass proportions that you will love. The first book of this series is amazing, and they only get better as you go on. The books are long and involved, but that does nothing to take away from wonderful read. Buy this book, you will NOT be dissapointed.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: One of the best books I have ever read. This books is full of action and adventure. It is complete with humor and other emotions that pull you into the book, making you believe that you are on the adventures with the main character. This is an excellent book, and a start to an excellent story. I have read all 9 books so far, and this one is one that sticks in my mind the best. It is a great book, and a must read for anyone who is interested in fantasy.
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Summary: Wonderfully written.. but seemingly endless
Review: Robert Jordan's style is nothing short of amazing. He demonstrates a strong, effectively-used vocabulary, and his descriptions are artistically detailed. His epic begins with a hugely, perhaps overly detailed account of Rand, Perrin, Egwene, Matt and Nynaeve's encounter with Moiraine and Lan in their village of Two Rivers. Strange happenings occur, mostly pertinent to Rand, and the mysterious Moiraine convinces him to embark on a journey, of which his friends, as well as the Gleeman Thom Merrilin and the Wisdom join him. It is revealed that Moiraine is an Aes Sedai,; meaning she wields tremendous magic, and the muscular Lan is her guard.
After a while in the epic of The Eye of the World, reading it seemed more exhausting than Rand's journey. When the group is separated, their "adventures" are merely long, pointless and not to mention tiring accounts of their each intricately detailed step. The story seemed to only go on and on unnecessarily.
I must say, however, that reading Robert Jordan's debut novel wasn't a complete waste of time. I was exposed to a fabulous writing style, and though his novel was endless, RJ is quite the storyteller. A improvable work of art.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: A little hard to get started, but I could not put it down. It was like an extention to my hand. Was anxious to finish, only so I could get to the next book.
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Summary: Your time could be better spent.
Review: Sorry, everyone. I did not enjoy this book. It was thin, weak, and hackneyed. The world the characters inhabited was fine, I suppose (or could have been), but the characters themselves became absolutely infuriating by the time I was halfway through the book. They were like cardboard cutouts- and cheap ones, at that. The women, especially...don't get me started. The word "infantile" comes to mind.
To Tolkien's clear and ringing voice, Jordan's work is a harsh, rasping croak.
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Summary: This is good, but don't start reading this...
Review: I'm one of those people who has to finish what he's started. I would suggest you don't start reading this now 9(!) volume series which never seems to end. Here's why. The first book is great. Although it doesn't hold a candle to Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings in my opinion. After that it becomes heavily repetitive, sluggish and boring. Robert Jordan is a bad writer. One who doesn't seem to notice the encredibly bad reviews he's getting and just goes on producing 800 page books about nothing. Books that climax once, usually in the last chapter. Books that promise action that never comes. "box your ears", "woolheaded", "Perrin smells fear, disgust, anger", "Aiel Maidens do handtalk". Just a few examples of the phrases used over, and over, and over until you're convinced you could have written this if you had nothing better to do with your life. If you can read the first book and then resist the temptation of reading the rest, I would recommend the first volume. Forget about the rest. Maybe if you just read the first and the last book (if it ever comes), you probably wouldn't miss a thing. I'm sorry I have all 8 volumes and I'm even more sorry about the fact that I'm buying volume 9 as well!
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