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Summary: OH the agony!
Review: I have been glued to his books with the first one and been wishing for the end. It just keeps going and now he starts another thread with this one. I really liked this book. It is one of his better ones considering the last few in this series. I just wish it would end. Finish the story.
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Summary: A refreshing change of pace. A light read.
Review: If you can discard your prejudices about the last few books in the Wheel of Time, then I believe that you can thoroughly enjoy this quick novel. For me, this novel gives much insight to Moiraine as a character, making her untimely end with Lanfear that much more profound, while leaving room for her to develop into the Aes Sedai we know from the Eye of the World. In terms of style, its refreshing to have a book that focuses on a few well known characters and a simple plot rather than the convoluted story lines in the last few books of the Wheel of Time. Definitely worth your time.
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Summary: New Spring
Review: I wholeheartedly agree with the previous reviever Chuckyb.
I so enjoyed this series for years. So much so that I went back and bought them all in hardcover and re-read them several times.
That was until a couple of agonizing chapter-novels ago when I realized this would never end. What's with reborn-ing all the killed off Chosen? Who's who now? I bought the last one a year ago and never read it, the dissapointment would crush me. By the way if you had read them all Chuck... you would know Rand is a son of a runaway Andoran Queen and an Aiel buck.
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Summary: It Bites- boycott Jordan until he's finished
Review: I gave up on Crossroads and swore not to buy another Jordan snorer until Nynaeve yanks her braid for the last time. I didn't buy this; see how much agony I saved? If you'll just boycott like I am, he'll finish this puppy fast. If only we could balefire our way back to book 6 or 7 and forget about the last 3000 pages of nothing.
JB
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Summary: the beginning is not really the beginning
Review: Robert Jordan is an excellent writer. There is no denying his skills. I enjoying reading this book. But this book did very little to enlighten anyone of anything that had transpired before. The beginning should start with the DRAGON REBORN. It didn't addressed the questions that the series alludes to constantly: RAND al' THOR is not TAM al'THOR's son. How did Tam gain custody of Rand? Who was Rand's mother? Was she a runaway member of a high ranking Andoran house? According to discriptions, one of his parents is obviously AIEL. The questions just abound from this storyline. That's the storyline I was looking for throughout the book and it never materialized.
I mean it's all well and good that Moiraine ran across Lan and bonded him. But was it a storyline worthy of special note. Do you go back and write a novel based on that relationship. I don't think so. This was an excellent opportunity to write a nice introduction to this series. Something akin to the HOBBIT in relation to the LORD OF THE RINGS triology. Ok, even with that said: What does Jordan do next? Is his next novel going to address the things I mentioned here. Or does he try to finish the series with us wondering what are RAND's true origins. I don't necessarily like spinning my wheels. but I love reading these books. However there should be some point to them.
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Summary: Will make a great movie.
Review: This is an excellent example of Mr. Jordan's writing talent. I loved the plot where Lan, an out of work ball-player, is forced to help Moraine, a nun, transport a monkey across the country. I don't want to spoil the ending but let me tell you... When Lan had to dress like an excotic dancer to avoid the biker gang, wow!I especially loved the scenes with Rand the monkey. If I could get a monkey that smart in real life... I hope in the next book that Mr. Jordan can find a way to keep the fun going.
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Summary: Who cares how it started anymore?
Review: Finish the dang thing for crying out loud! I couldn't care less how it started. It's become an unmoving morass. I read the first chapter in the store and thought "Gawd, how many ways can this fruitcake possibly try and cash in?" If he's got so much writing time on his hands, why can't he put it to good use finishing the story? I'll tell you why. He's lost. He doesn't know how to clean up the mess he made and he's milking it for all it's worth until he has no choice but to finish it. He knows he'll make a mess at the end and never sell another book. It's over. This bites.
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Summary: Very disappointing prequel
Review: I've been an ever faithful reader of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. Friends kept telling me he was stretching his story too long and he was just here for the bucks, and I didn't believe her. I followed him to Crossroads of Twilight and actually *liked* the book. Which is why I went a bit rabid when I heard he would first do this 'prequel' instead of finishing his first cycle. No way, I thought. That's one of the lowest blow he could score. But, being a rabid fan and all, I *did* purchase New Spring, out of curiosity. After all, Moiraine and Lan's beginnings should be pretty interesting to follow, right ? Wrong.
This book is very disappointing - as a Robert Jordan book, and as a fantasy book as a whole. The slow pace we came to know and like is not just merely slow. It's agonizingly snail-likely slow. Nothing of worth happens in these 400 pages. Absolutely nothing. There's little politics, little interaction, and much sniffing. Keep all the bad things, leave out the good ones. That about sums it up. Don't buy it. Else you'll have to do what I'll probably do: buy the next one out of habit, instead of buying out of love.
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Summary: Solid offering: adventure, worldbuilding, character growth
Review: There's a war going on but, according to seer Gitara, something much more important has happened. The long-awaited, long-feared The Dragon is reborn and the world has entered its end-times. The Aes Sedai mobilize to find the newborn baby--the first man in centuries destined to be able to use magic without destroying himself because prophesies state that he is essential if good is to have a hope (not a certainty) of survival. But even Aes Sedai secrecy cannot keep suspicion from getting out to the evil as well--and they will do anything necessary to keep the Dragon from surviving until that battle. Moiraine Damodred and her friend Siuan are only Accepted--trainees in Aes Sedai magic, but they have the fortune (or misfortune) to hear the seer's last prophesy. They resolve to seek out the Dragon themselves once raised to Aes Sedai status--which the crisis soon requires. But their quest is not easy--thousands of babies were born during the critical period and the Aes Sedai records are incomplete. To succeed, they'll have to break all the rules and put themselves in danger. And when they do, they discover a more terrible secret. Even the near-holy Aes Sedai are corrupt, riddled by a secret order who are sabotaging everything the Aes Sedai stand for. Two brand new inductees don't stand much of a chance against the accumulated power of evil, but doing nothing isn't an option. Author Robert Jordan has become one of the top names in modern fantasy by delivering a solid tale that combines adventure, fascinating world-building, and character development. NEW SPRING delivers on all of these elements and makes a highly entertaining read. Unlike many of Jordan's books, SPRING is relatively short and self-contained. It is billed as a prequel to his huge-selling WHEEL OF TIME series and can be read by readers new to Jordan or unwilling to undertake the multi-thousand page investment in the full opus. If you read fantasy, you'll want to add NEW SPRING to your list.
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Summary: Not "New Spring" .... New Money! Yours!!
Review: Once again, Mr. Jordan has shown that he has run out of gas, out of ideas, and wants to *recycle* from a series which is already TOO LONG, even UNENDING. Yes, you poor suffering readers who have been hanging in there, thinking there would soon be an end ... even a CONCLUSION to all of this ... but no! He will travel back in time and have a book BEFORE #1, using recycled material! This could go on for 30 more years! Next, we could have a pre-prequel and then a pre-pre-prequel. This idea may have worked OK with the Star Wars movies, but it doesn't here (and they are quitting with #6, so I've heard). This book should have been titled "The Search for New Money," or just "New Money," because they want some more of yours! Avoid it! Mr. Jordan, you do have talent ... so, take a few years off, and come up with a completely new series (or retire and go climbing on your large pile of money). Sorry, I'm not trying to be mean, but I just don't like being suckered in .... every time I think we are nearing an end in the WOT series, I discover that the same piece of taffy has just been stretched farther and thinner. Some authors should know when to hang up their laurels and give it a rest. Sorry, Mr. Jordan, but it's just the truth. I enjoyed perhaps the first 5 or 6 books, but then it just became like the infamous "Chinese Water Torture." When will the next drop fall?
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