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Summary: GREAT BOOK!
Review: Well book 6 had alot happen in it and alot happened to the characters Egwene is made the Amyrlin Seat buy the rebel Aes Asedai, Nynaeve has finaly broken thru her block and is now able to heal Aes Asedai who were stilled it seems plus Rand's capture and rescue add Mat's problems all in all a great book I can't wait to see what happens in book 7. Like I said before if you want a great story with great characters that you care about then read ROBERT JORDAN'S WHEEL OF TIME SERIES.
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Summary: Jordan's Best Ever
Review: All to often the Wheel of Time series is jammed with confusing and numerous characters, irrelevant plots and hard to spot foreshadowing. The Lord of Caos however, lacks nothing. We see considerable character development and the best battle scenes in the series. I feal sorry for people who have not read this book.
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Summary: Uhmm...
Review: If you've just started reading this, then you know why its 5 stars. If you haven't read these books pick up Eye of the World. See if you're a junkie.
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Summary: Lord of Chaos
Review: What can I say? This series is a very well written piece of literature, I want to thank Mr Jordan for writting it. Mr Jordan creates a fantastic plot and a multitute of sub plots that make the book on a whole a epic story that causes me to block out the real world and enter the world of the Wheel of Time.I highly recommend reading this great series from begining to end.......... :)
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Summary: THE ABSOLUTE BEST BOOK
Review: This is the BEST "Wheel of Time" book I ever read (I've read numbers 1-8.) The whole book leads up to the best climax I've ever read. It's packed to the brim with foreshadowing and hints. Pay close attention when you read it! It is THE BEST! I LOVE IT!
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Summary: Long, Difficult and Absolutely Brilliant!
Review: The Wheel of Time in general isn't an easy read. On the contrary, the length of this saga and its complexity often intimidates and repels people. However, I have never read anything nearly as engrossing and absolute as the Wheel of Time books: it is the complete reading experience. In a world where it often seems that nothing of interest ever happens to us, one may find in these books friends for life, and actually feel as if he is sharing their experiences, their strife and their innermost thoughts. Lord of Chaos, the six in the series, very much epitomizes this element. Though it's almost a thousand pages long (on paperback, at least), not much actually happens in this book, but it builds a wider base to understand the characters, their world, their enemies and the dangers they face, including those they are oblivious of. Furthermore, this book sheds light on the foundations of future eventualities in later books. The reader finds himself even more attached to the characters and the world they inhabit. He is also subjected to great stress, as this book builds a lot of tension. And then, at the last three hundred pages or so, all hell breaks loose. All in all, this book is long and relatively noncommunicative, at least at the beginning, and I wouldn't recomend it to anyone who hasn't read the previous five books of the series, but the bottom line is, it's a fabulous book, and I couldn't lay my hands off it once I started reading it.
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Summary: Chaos starts to rule!
Review: Lord of Chaos (LOC) is Volume 6 of the saga and in many ways the last sputtering of brilliance in the saga. There are good points, sure. The Dark Lord is heard from at last, we see more interaction between the Forsaken, which outlines their characters better than descriptions, the terrible battle at Dumai's Wells is well painted. But now Jordan is clearly stretching out each episode to the point where it becomes painful. TOR Books seems to have been too overawed by Jordan for whoever was edited the book obviously did little or nothing. The phrases get repetitive enough to madden the reader. Every woman for instance "folds her arms beneath her breasts". Sorilea thinks every woman whom she likes has "hips mean for babies". What happened to the famous imagination? Wake up editor and smell the coffee. Jordan also introduces fresh complications in an already complex saga by reincarnating two Forsaken, evidently Aginor and Balthamel, for what purpose, nobody knows. But the biggest disappointment is Jordan's treatment of female characters. I thought that here at last is a true adventure of equals with both men and women playing starring roles. But the women spend most of their time arguing like cats and then get stuck with inconsequential parts. The weather may be a problem; Jordan never quite explains why; and it seems the quest for the Bowl of the Winds (so conveniently and unconvincingly seen in a dream! please!) seems more a device to get them out of the way. Jordan also appears to believe in a real war of the sexes. All the women are arrogant, consider men a bunch of idiots, ("need their ears boxed daily on general principle") and behave in the most juvenile manner imaginable. Rather than have such caricatures of female characters, I would rather have a male-only book. And Jordan's contempt for his readers as seen in his glossary is profound. The glossary if anything, is smaller than his earlier books! Why have those wretched incomplete pages at all? As for a decent map of the world, forget it. Down to 3 stars this time I am afraid.
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Summary: After 900 MORE PAGES
Review: After 900 MORE PAGES of text, I found that the characters I was at least vaguely interested in during the first and second installments of this rediculously long series are simply annoying. Rand: With a name that sounds suspiciously like Randall, he is the stereotypical uninteresting hero blessed with enormous power. The only reason I was ever interested in this character was that he was supposed to go insane, and what's more intriguing than a character skirting madness? Well, that was brought up in book two. This is book six, and although Lews Therin's nut-job voice is ringing in his head, Rand himself seems quite sane. He has no decent sense of humor, no personality, no beliefs, no nothing. He does have a half-realized love for min and about every other female character that comes his way, but that falls through the roof just like every other sub-plot that's been dropped in this story. Every female character is boring except for Nynaeve, whose strange love for Lan was also dropped as a sub-plot along the way. Plus, although she does have a personality, she is so completely unlikable that I visibly cringe every time dialogue is given to her. She's just going to complain or make some kind of sexist comment. The only intelligent or witty character, Thom Merrilin, is no longer intelligent or witty, and his delightful play at being a paltry magician that was so cool in the first book has evaporated. He's now under Nynaeve's domineering thumb. The Aes Sedai are about as entertaining as a root canal, and when they're not busy talking about how they hate all men, they're insulting their fellow "sisters", incubating plots that will most likely never hatch, or "bending" the truth-but never outright lying-to achieve thier ends. Which brings me to the most annoying thing about not only this story, but about the whole series: The battle of the sexes. This whole gender war angle was slightly amusing at first, but I couldn't help but be constantly offended by the fact that the men always lost every argument or conflict to a herd of dim-witted female characters. But then again, what competition can there be with male characters as stupid and sometimes juvenile as they are in this book? So what saved this book from from getting one star? The battle at Dumai Wells. Action! Excitement! Something actually happened!This single action scene was a ray of sunshine in an otherwise confusing quagmire of forgotten sub-plots and one-sided characters. I stopped reading the series with this book, because I decided to go read books where plot lines reached conclusions. So if you just can't wait for the final battle between Rand and the dark one, too bad, because you WILL wait . . . F O R E V E R!
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Summary: Jordan invests a lot of energy...
Review: While other fantasy-writers always seem eager to tell their story and get it over with, Jordan really puts the story in second place. This saga is one of feeling and emotions of good and evil and of lies and truth. While reading this series you will find yourself in an absurd world that so cunningly written that the thin barrier between reality and fantasy seems to vanish. This book in particular hasn't got much real progress for Rand on his way to the Last Battle; the Forsaken are still roaming the earth and the Dark One is still terrorising the people with an everlasting summer. Still this book doesn't get boring. Jordan invests a lot of energy in deepening out his characters which I think is very important. Most writers can't get to this point, because it uses up a lot of paper. Jordan doesn't seem interested in saving paper, he knows what a good story needs. I can't wait to see Rand win the Last Battle. On the other hand, I would have to find a new hobby, then.
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Summary: This Book Continues the Chaos
Review: This book nearly did me in. The petty torments the characters shove at each other is unbelievable. Matt being tormented by the Aes Sedai about his magic immunity is but one of many many examples. Everyone has their own agenda and won't veer away from it to help one of their "friends" or "allies" even if it means the end of the world. So Rand is the Dragon Reborn and yet the Aes Sedai insist on controlling him rather than working with him. Their arrogance is frustrating and hardly credible, even those who are from Emond's Field and supposedly his friends. Just why does Rand "love" Elayne and Avienda anyway? I can understand Min, but not the other two. At what point do the characters in these books, most especially the Aes Sedai, finally HELP rather than hinder the war against the Dark One. I've had no problem putting the book down to read other things; even knowing I may loose the story line. I loose the plot anyway after 6,000 or so pages, with no synopsis or good glossary.
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