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Summary: It's okay but....
Review: I agree with some reviews that it was too long. I do like long novels, but as long as they are not filled with unnecessary parts. This book could have easily been shortened. Especially the parts where Rand and his companion were going from village to village trying to hide from the Dark One's men. Also things are a little too convenient for the characters. There were parts when I wasn't sure what was going to happen but by 300 pages I figured that something out of the air would come to help the heroes at the right time. A lot of books are like that but this one has it happening so much to the point where it gets absolutely annoying. And the characters are the most irritating that I've seen in a book so far. There seem a little to flat. They always act a certain way and never change or act out the ordinary. And because of that nothing the characters do surprises me. The plot is there but only comes clear in the last 200 pages when this book is almost 800 pages long. The other 600 pages describe the character's journey that had little suspense and too much description of the characters every action. If the other books in the series are like this I just won't read them. And for once I feel like I wouldn't miss anything. One good thing though is that the world Jordan describes is so rich and full of life. If only he had done that with the characters.
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Summary: It will never end...
Review: I case you don't know much about this series, know this: there are already 10 installments, and more to come. And just take a look at the size of each volume!Before you pick up this book, look up the reviews of those poor souls who have read the last installment - notice the weariness? Most are bored and upset, and even those who kind-of-liked-it are really tired of it. Because the truth is, this series will never end. And the pity is that this could have been a very good series. "The Eye of the World" starts out as an excellent book, with rich descriptions and 3-D characters. But, around mid-point you start to have this nagging feeling that things are not progressing as they should, that events are moving way too slowly, and it just gets worse and worse. So: you have been warned. I was able to break the spell and abandon the series afte this first volume; there are many who have not been so lucky...
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Summary: Great Book to start a Great Epic
Review: It's a little slow in the beginning but once you get a little ways in (about 50 pages or so) you will not be able to put it down. Great book for any and all fantasy lovers as well as just the very beginning of a riveting adventure.
This tale is the beginning of an epic with very well made characters. some characters you will love, others you'll hate and a few you will not know what to think of. But the characters are only the start, the world in which this tale takes place is masterfully built with great care for detail and almost seems so real you could touch it. and it only gets better from here..
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Summary: The first three are good...
Review: I enjoyed the first book, even though it gets very boring in the middle of the book. The ending was great however. So I went out to buy the second book. It was good, if a little confusing, as in charaters the seem to be plotting at the beging then don't turn up for the rest of the book. I even enjoyed the third book mainly because Perin's in it so much and is pretty much left out of the next two books after no.4. After that it was just one huge book after the other with mindless things that I decided to waste my money on something else. If you want to waste time and money on a go nowhere book series go ahead. I'm done until the final book is realease. Don't belive me, old WOT no.6 sit on my shelf unread to this day.
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Summary: Way too long...
Review: This book drags more than any other I've seen. In the time it took for me to read 400 pages of Eye of the World, I managed to read the first six books in the Sword of Truth (actually, that one really slows down after a while too).
Maybe if they made cliff notes for this book to cut out all the mindless fluff, I'd take it, but its a little exessive for me.
Despite how needlessly long it is, I still manage to pcik it back up every now and then before becoming, once again, hopelessly bored.
You must be very adamant or very...very...very bored to work your way through this book. Otherwise, its too much.
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Summary: Marvelous I tell you! Marvelous!
Review: The Wheel of Time is the most engrossing fantasy fiction that any reader can read. Grace favor the Light, The Eye of the World is perhaps the most engrossing book ever...! There were many a night when I found myself sitting up in bed with everyone asleep and I myself wanting to as well...but I couldn't. Why? Because Rand, Perrin, Elayne, Nynaeve and Mat wouldn't let me. The Eye of the World gives a more-than vivid account of Rand discovering who he really is. Everything about this book was mysterious as an Aes Sedai's face. And you have to love Moiraine!
Perhaps, my favorite portion of the book was when the party had to manuever through Shadar Logoth and when Mashadar was out to strangle them. Marvelous I tell you! Marvelous! There has never been a writer since Tolkein who has mastered the Fantasy Genre as Jordan. He writes with more than just characters, he writes with grave detail; every little niche needs to be described; every outfit described until a fashion designer can actually make the outfit herself. These are more than just words on paper, they are Rembrant in motion. Poetry to its uppermost extreme.
I know this review my come across as a rant, but the 'Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills.' If you are thinking about fantasy, then you should think about Jordan's Wheel of Time series. It is more than fantasic--Creator!--its perfect!
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Summary: rrrghhhh....SUCH A GOOD BOOK!
Review: This EXCELLENT book starts off an extremely EXCELLENT fantasy series! Just read the prologue, 'Dragonmount', and that's more than enough to make you say, "WELL? WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?" so, naturally, you read the first chapter. It does start off slow, but you think, hey, if the prologue was so exciting, the book HAS to get good.....and get good it does! If you like heroes, foul beasts, men with no eyes, friends, swords, battles, shocking discoveries, adventures, the One Power, people who talk to wolves, haunted cities, and.....other stuff related to the things I just listed, well, The Eye of the World and the whole Wheel of Time series is chock-full of them! READ! THIS! BOOK! IT! IS! GOOOOOOODDDD!
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Summary: Great read
Review: This is a brilliant book and deserves all possible credit. This is one of my personal favourite serieses and the first book is still by far my favourite of the lot. The characters are wonderfully developed and individual each with their own personal history and future. This is not one of those books where one character from the starting bunch becomes supreme and best loved by readers, which is part of its eventual charm. Once you read one of these you're hooked for life, there is no going back. This book ranks up there with tolkien for me and is one of those books that leave you wishing for more even as the last page is turned. While at times all the details might seem random or useless they all come together in the next books to create a masterpiece of literature that has led me to wonder how much planning goes into these books before they are written. There is a mass of miniscule points to remember and that, rather than simply revealing things, are needed by the reader to piece together conclusions before they are discovered by characters. While all this detail might make the books slightly slower at times than some readers might appreciate in the end it all fits perfectly and is worth every moment.
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Summary: Don't Buy Any of These Books!
Review: This is more a review of the series than of this book, but at this point whether this particular book is any good or not is beside the point. Most fantasy fans will enjoy this book, as well as the the next three or four books in the series. The problem is that the series has becomes a complete drag after that point, and you will find yourself reading these books with no enjoyment just so that you can see how it all ends. If you must read this series, please get it from the library; Jordan is blatantly stringing his readers along in order to improve his profit, to the point where the most recent books or almost completely unreadable. If you are the type of person who has always wanted to know the name and family history of every minor character in the books you read, or the details of every piece of clothing every charater wears, you may enjoy this series as it progresses, but for those of us who like a plot that moves foreward at a reasonable pace, this series has become unbearable. Jordan is desperately in need of a good editor. The number of sub-plots in the series is staggering, and whether they all come together at the end or not, reflect a self-indulgence on Jordan's part that is entirely inexcuseable.
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Summary: An enjoyable book the first and second time through.
Review: The first time I read this book I would've given it three stars, but I just finished it for the second time and I now rate it at a well deserving FOUR stars. This book is pretty good. I will explain the added star in a moment, but first I will just rate the book for the book alone. ENVIORNMENT/HISTORY(B): One of the greatest things about Robert Jordan's world is definately the world. It is so rich and in-depth. The map of the entire continent is so detailed and rich. In other fantasy epics, such as Terry Goodkind's "The Sword of Truth," there are worlds that are not as easy to get into, and the maps don't help much at all. The first book in "The Wheel of Time" gets you a brief glimmer of the world outside, but not much else. You really only now about what is going on in the places where the main character's are (however, in the first 100 pages of the second book, you know so much more about the world in it's entirety). But, there are a lot of interesting things about the history you learn in this book, which is only added onto as you read more books. CHARACTERS(B): One problem with the characters that I have problems with is that the women all seem to have similar attitudes and views while the men develop different "attributes" which changes their attitudes from their same gendered aquaintences. However, I love the way the male characters develop and the intereractions they have with random people they run into (Elyas, Master Gill, etc.). BUT, being a male and talking to female readers, they say the opposite of what I've just stated, so, my view should not discourage women from thinking that it is a male dominated series, because the female characters have more power then the men do. And there is some random love developments last minute that seem to be random to the casual reader but I caught onto the second time I read the book. PLOTLINE (C): It is hard to see where the series is going as a whole when reading this book. You don't know what characters are going to be doing later on, and it makes it hard to follow the story sometimes. Especially around the 500 page mark, it gets a little slow. But, push on, it is worth it! DEVELOPMENTS (A): With all sorts of what were only thought rumors to the small town characters becoming reality it is hard to say there is not tons and tons of development. It's so great! When I read the last chapter in book one I could not wait to pick up book 2. So much development and so much forshadowing that I couldn't even handle it. I still can't. CLOSING COMMENTS: The reason I rated it higher this time then I would've the first time through is because after reading all ten books out thus far, going back and rereading was so interesting because of all the characters I had forgotten where and when they were first introduced. I WAS a casual reader, and now I am not, and it makes the series as a whole much more rewarding, especially later in the series when a lot of people think the books get "slow" and "boring." THIS BOOK IS WORTH READING. The following additions to the series are some of the greatest pieces of work I have ever read, and despite a lot of Robert Jordan "fans" out there, I love all of the books, and appreciate the reasons why books 7-10 are a little bit slower than the first few.
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