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Summary: This book is perfect!!
Review: I'm telling you, since I got this book as a present almost two years ago I have read it at least fifty times. It is like my bible. I quote from it and everything! There is nothing wrong with this book. it is flawless. Jordan will be remembered in thousands of years for this book. its fabulous!!!!! All the charecters are so likeable, the plot is so incredible, that everyone that knows how to read should read it.
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Summary: Good, but not very "new"
Review: This book is good. The rest of the seven book's are also good, but keeps getting worse after book five, and I'm afraid that it will not be completed....There's nothing "new" in this mastodont serie. The way essenc and magic flows in the world is interesting to me as a roleplayer, but to literacy, it holds little. Mainly it's a very mainstream post-Tolkien(RPG?) fantasy. If your standards are like most people, i e you don't need Shakespear to amuse your mind, Jordan does pretty good. Entertaining and complexive STORYLINE, but most of the characters are very predictiable (got to love Matrim though, always kick a boasters butt!). /Pholostan Psst! I recently read a three-book serie, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams, and that serie was just as good!
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Summary: Interesting, very interesting
Review: I don't mean to be agreeable here, (in fact it has been my study to be as contrary as possibly about most things) but unfortunately, I agree with almost every single review that I've read about this book. It's wonderfull!! It's terrible!! It's deep! It's shallow! Whatever! My biggest problem with this book was that I liked it TOO much. You may ask how that is possible. Well, so do I, as a matter of fact. But it's true. This book so sucked me in that I started living in it's make believe world. Now, I don't have a problem with that if it only goes on while I'm reading the book, but the sensation continued long after I was done with it. I found myself dying to know what was going to happen to all the characters, just because I knew them so well. As a whole, I would say that this is an extremely well written book, (even if it does have some deja-vous qualities to it) with deep charcters, extensive plots and wild landscapes. It was a bit to violent for me in spots, but for the most part it was pretty clean. As to comparing it to Tolkien, well, how do you compare apples and oranges? They are two different people, each with their own seprate brain, and writing at different times of the century. What do I think of each of them? I love Tolkien far better then any other fiction writer because of how deep he his. Ever read the Silmarillion? There is far more to L.o.t.R. then meets the eye. But I'm reviewing Jordan here. :-) I like Jordan for his colorful writing, his daring to go for an enormous undertaking, and his consistancy. Tolkien? Read my review of Lord of the Rings.
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Summary: Brilliant brilliant brilliant, need I say more?
Review: A friend told me 2 read this book, I was sceptical first because it was the first time I read a fantasy book. So I just started reading and as the words floated by my jaw dropped inch by inch until I thought 'hey! I should stop reading before my jaw falls off'. Really, this story is just so great, I can't believe that ANYONE would diss this book. READ-MY-LIPS: READ THIS BOOOOOOOK!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: What an incredible book!
Review: This book was my introduction to fantasy novels. I was a bit wary at first, but after the first hundred pages, I was totally caught up in the story and even kept reading while studying for finals. I finished it today and I'm starting the sequel in a couple minutes.
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Summary: What's all the fuss about?
Review: The Wheel of Time is not badly written, just very unimaginative and a general rip-off of the whole fantasy genre. I myself hate when authors babble too much, which is clearly the case here, but even if you like that kind of thing, the book isn't _that_ good. It's a very ordinary fantasy tale with a party of heroes, all of them with Great Destinies, traipse around the countryside and try to evade evil shadow-wraiths (Tolkien), ghosts and some or other Lord of Evil. (He didn't show up in the first book, but I refuse to read another 2000 pages to meet him) They're simply not worth the number of pages you have to read.
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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read!
Review: This is an excellent book! I liked it so much it only took me 5 days to read it, and I am going to start the second soon!! Anyone who likes fantasy and adventure, this book's for you!
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Summary: Dribble, dribble and more dribble....
Review: This book is nothing but a boring Tolkein ripoff. And the number of people willing to give it 5 stars is plain ridiculous. I've even read some comments comparing the author to Shakespeare. I can promise you one thing, the name Robert Jordan will not exists in literature in 20 years time, much less 100!
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Summary: Mega
Review: I love this book!!!, It's awesome!!! absouloutly great, it's long too, so i don't get the feeling of 'it;s over too soon' i've been trying for two month to get my hands on the next one, may the sieres never end!!!
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Summary: Absolutely brilliant
Review: This is the best fantasy book ever. Why can't people just see it? Ok, at first it may seem like it's a Tolkien rip-off, but the difference is that Tolkien couldn't write anything else after Lord of the Rings, because his world wasn't big enough. It didn't have enough mysteries uncovered, Jordan made a world which left enough things to write 8 parts so far and he's still not finished. There is absolutely no doubt about who's better. Tolkien is the first, but he faked everything from mythology, so that's not an argument either. Jordan faked a little of Tolkien and a little of mythology, but he has molded it together into a fantastic story. Remember this is only the first part. Who has ever read a fantasy book that was so intriguing after just one part? Frodo had barely reached Rivendell in Lord of the Rings. There had hardly been any action so far, and the same holds true for almost every fantasy story I read, except for Wheel of Time. Don't misunderstand me. Tolkien doesn't suck. Indeed it's very good, but Jordan is just a lot better.
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