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Summary: Its AWESOME!!
Review: I stayed up till 3 reading this book... Its awesome!
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Summary: GET OFF IT!!!
Review: I have noticed alot of people saying that RJ has copied alot of other peoples stories. Get off it, I can honestly say that Elements of Fantasy, tend to join together. But no 2 stories are exactly the same either. The Aes Sedie are witches, and other things like the quests are the Same. This is a great book, so why can't people get off of the similarities?
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Summary: An addictive, exciting book
Review: Robert Jordan has written one of the most exciting books in the fantasy genre! Rand and his friends are exactly the kind of characters I want to root for in the battle of good against evil. I have read this book four times over the last five years and I manage to glean more information and entertainment each time.
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Summary: Grossly overated
Review: I guess I did enjoy the first book. Then I read the second book. Pretty good. The third. Decent. Shadow rising. Absolutely worthless. That is where I stopped. Then I read Donaldson, Goodkind, Tolkien, Williams, Feist, and the master: Martin, and realized Wheel of Time just didn't measure up to anything else. Its characters have no depth. I hated the women. Why did they all like Rand? I couldn't stand that moron. Why was he graced with that power? He's so stupid. The women were all these obnoxious evil feminists who insulted men at ever turn. Of course the men were so stupid in this novel they kind of deserved the insults. The only really interesting thing occured at the very, very end when Rand took out a couple forsaken. The rest of it was a long journey, interesting I suppose, but altogether pointless filler. The dark one seems a cheep rip off of Sauron or Lord Foul, though almost laughably terrorfying. The language employed is not even equal to Goodkind. The story goes everywhere and no where. In Shadow Rising simply nothing happens in nearly a thousand page novel. ugh. Why in the world do people whorship this book like its some kind of Korran or Bible. My brother's kind of like that. He owns every book, and has read each about four times. I ask him why he likes wasting his time so much and he gets mad. I just wish the dark one would come out before say book twenty and kill that moron Rand, then I might actually read another book in the series.
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Summary: The Book of Air -- and that's not a complement.
Review: This book had a curious effect on me. After reading it, I put it down and promptly forgot it; a week after I'd finished with it, I could not recall, to any degree of accuracy, a single person or event in it. This isn't normally a problem with me -- I've usually got pretty good recall. The problem is with the book.Jordan is so obviously trying to out-Tolkien Tolkien with this beached whale of a novel (now an equally insufferable beached whale of a series) that he forgets that simplicity and economy are often a writer's best allies and not the enemy. Everything that Jordan can possibly think of is described to death, and his characters are eminently forgettable. Jordan seems to think that women were placed on this earth to either slap unruly men back into line (why does every male character in this book behave like a sullen teenager, regardless of their age?) or to simply stand around and look wistful. Jordan also has a chronic storytelling problem: He doesn't know where his own story seems to be. He has his "camera", his novel's eye, just left of center of the real action: every five pages someone rushes in and blurts out what's happening just offstage, and of course everyone goes scurrying pell-mell to catch up with it. I instantly imagined some enterprising young fantasy author making a mint by writing a companion novel to this one, which contains all of the off-the-page action. It would, no doubt, be at least twice as interesting. Jordan is not the first, but probably the most successful proponent of what appears to be a new genre of fantasy, and possibly a new genre of fiction in general: the Post-RPG Genre. The whole thing has the smell of having been lifted wholesale from an overly elaborate AD&D game played over the course of several seasons, complete with gratuitously twisted plots, noisy battles that never seem to really accomplish anything, and an appalling lack of focus. Which is fine if you're a gamer, but apparently the rest of us can go hang. "Eye of the World" is not the worst fantasy novel I've ever read, but that's not a complement.
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Summary: It's the Geography, Stupid!
Review: The reviews are in. Those readers of escapist Fantasy who are looking for a world of breathtaking scope and detail and familiar characters doing just what they should be expected to do will love this series. *I* loved it for that reason. Those who look to epic fantasy for dynamic characters doing surprising things in unique and fascinating worlds should best look elsewhere. In The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan begins to describe a world of such rich history and detail that few have seen since Tolkein. For that reason, people love it. It is a place to spend time and therefore MUST be long and tedious. In spending time with the characters, you get to know them and see beyond their one-dimentional tendencies. They DO change in ways they must, but that takes time, and clearly that is the appeal of these books for those who love it. For the lovers of The Wheel of Time, we have everything we desire in escapist fantasy! When we desire more complex stories, characters, dialoge, we have other books by other writers. But for creating a warm, cozy and comfortable world to spend time in, Jordan's world is perfect.
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Summary: Very complex, hard to follow. Excellent story line.
Review: Robert Jordan writes a very complex and in depth novel about characters in a world very different from ours. The entire plot revolves around vivid religious aspects of society, the devil, magic, and the eternal war between light and darkness. Lots of symbolism. "The Eye of the World" is the first book in a never ending series. The seventh novel having just been released in the winter of '98, readers have a long wait before the eighth book. If you like to live in another world when you read, this is the perfect series to begin reading.
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Summary: Depends on what you're looking for
Review: First of all, this book is best if you don't have any preconceived notions of what to expect. Stregnths: Jordan creates a new world and populates it with a bunch of "minor" characters. He introduces a new, plausible system of "magic," a channeling of the One Power and he doesn't rely too heavily on "acts of God" to advance the plot. Weakness: The characters are one-dimensional cardboard cut-outs, dialogue is stilted and action scenes are completely unrealistic. The plot is unoriginal to boot. Bottom line: If you buy this book don't read any reviews first. Maybe the anger and increduality you experience will prompt you to vent to others, and maybe you'll enjoy it. I guess it depends on what you expect to get out of a pulp fantasy novel.
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Summary: The first book in on of the greatest fantasy serials ever.
Review: What can I say. Great characters, great action. A plot that no others rival. Jordan takes bits and pieces of other fantasy novels and twists them just so, making them all the better, while adding his own great ideas and creativity. Once you read the first one, be prepared to be hooked, becuase the sequels rival the first.
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Summary: A great book, richly imagined and detailed
Review: A wonderful book, the start of a great series. All the characters are well developed and thoroughly enjoyable. The story keeps you turning the pages and you can't wait for the next thing to happen!
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