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Summary: Inconsistencies in WoC, repetition, and just plain stupidity
Review: This was a good book, thoough not as good as the earlier ones. Let's face it though, good ol' Bob uses some phrases waaaay too much. How many times do we need to hear about Mat looking for "a kiss and a cuddle?" Or Nynaevae tugging on her braid, or all the women folding their arms under their breasts? Also, there MAY be some logical inconsistencies in WoT. For example, if Rand loses Tarmon Gai'don, then eternity, and all the revolutions of the Wheel of Time, will fall under the Shadow, but if he wins, everythings going to be all happy. Yet, Artur Hawkwing and Ba'alzamon both knew Rand in earlier lives. In these lives, we have to assume that Rand was the Dragon Reborn in each of them, all rebirths of the "first" Dragon. Yet, the Dark One states that in some of those lives, the Dragon bowed down to him, so we have to assume he lost those Tarmon Gai'dons. But if he did, then the world would be under the shadow permanently, which isn't the case. Please feel free to disagree with this, as long as you can explain why. Another thing to face. Rand is badly portrayed in one area. He keeps talking about how duty is heavier than a mountain, but his duty is to win Tarmon Gaidon, and also keep alive as much peopel as possible. The best way to do this would be obviously to wield Callandor to destroy the Forsaken, then the Dark One. Or even better, that thingamajig in Rhuidean that links him to that other thingamabob across the Aryth Ocean. So why doesn't he just get it, and go to Shayol Ghul, and get the thing over with? One more thing. Will somebody please explain to me what this thing is about wind and beginnings that starts each book?
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Summary: arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggh
Review: I picked up ETW with a book voucher little knowing what I was letting myself in for! Being something of a speedreader, (and naving too much time on my hands) I read the first 6 books in 4 weeks! Unfortunately by the time I got to LoC I was so strung out I could barely get thru' it. Either that or I'm getting sick of the women in the series! One way or another I'm sticking with it , 8 books or 9, whatever, I mean to see it out if only to find out what happens to Mat!!
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Summary: Another great...
Review: This book is so hard to put down that I'm having a hard time studying for finals! :) I loved the character development in this one...but I want to read more about the developments between Nynaeve and Lan. Maybe it'll happen in the next 3 books, but I think that they're one of the most interesting elements of the WOT.
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Summary: Too long, but great ending
Review: I'd really give this book a 2 1/2 stars. It took 900 pages for anything to really happen, but it was worth it! The last 20 pages of the book are the most interesting since the battle with the Seanchan in Falme. I don't know where the series is going, but this ending gives me hope to try at least one more book.
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Summary: Review, or Ad?
Review: A piece of advice to surfers reading these reviews: a rave is one thing, but one that seems so worshipful of the text in question as to be nearly orgasmic should be highly suspect of being less a neutral review and more an advertisement submitted by paid employees of the publisher.
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Summary: Raise the roof with LoC
Review: Okay, in my opinion this book is a phenomenal addition to the series, and yes it is long (both the book and the series) and yes there are lots of characters and yes the plot is complex and yes you do need to remember stuff and expend a few brain cells and ya Jordan is descriptive, but hey to me that sounds like a pretty meaty, juicy read. The climax is an unbelievable rush and I had withdrawals waiting for The Crown of Swords to come out. My advice (to those who haven't read the series)- Take a look at the cover of LoC, read the title, think about it a little bit, get a burger, and then start reading The Eye of the World so you can eventually read this great book (and series).
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Summary: Question for the Author...
Review: Why in the name of the Creator did Rand allow Alanna to LIVE after bonding him by ambush, against his will like that? I mean, I would have at the very least tied off the flow that cut her off from the True Source permanently!
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Summary: Just Getting to Vol. 6 An Accomplishment!
Review: I am about two books behind in the series as the books are released and I have got to say that book 4 started bogging down for me, book 5 was hard to get through and book 6 is just plain hard to pick up again once you put it down. Enough is enough already. There have been so many plot lines intorduced and so many loose ends exposed that I really think it is about time Jordan started tying a few of them up. It really is beginning to look as if the series will just go on forever now, and the monotony of reading them now is beginning to make the entire series seem like just a marketing ploy to keep people buying books indefinitely until they die. If you think the series will end with Jordan's death, think again. They did it with James Bond, they can find another writer, some protoge' of Jordan's, to pick up the series with very little effort at all. I may stop reading sometime in the middle of this book. I know others will probably go on, having been sucked in, but for me I am just about all done in.
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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read.
Review: Lord of Chaos, the sixth book in the Wheel of Time, is an incredible book. It continues in the footsteps of the previous books in the Wheel of Time, but at the same time adds many unexpected twists. All the great characters, all the action, and all of the political maneuverings of the earlier books, somehow made even better. Enthralling to the end, I couldn't put this book down for days. Even when I finished it, I had to read it again just to absorb the massive amount of information in it. The only sour note is some of the reviews that are posted here. That this book should get anything less than a three-star is beyond imagining. I read a review that actually said that the only character to develop was Egwene. I urge that person to take the blindfold off his or her eyes and actually read the book. When was the last time that Rand had a dead man in his brain addressing him? Verin and Alanna, almost unimportant in all but the Shadow Rising, suddenly play gigantic roles when they bond Rand. Mat, now a general, has to go toe-to-toe with the Amyrlin, and learns to further his distrust of Aes Sedai. New characters are introduced, old characters resurge, and everything is brilliant. One of the best Fantasy novels ever written, and maybe the best in a series that has no peer.
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Summary: Brilliant, my faith is restored!
Review: After the extremely dissapointing Fires of Heaven, where the characters spent 900 pages walking in the desert, only to end up repeating the ending from one or two of of the earlier books, this volume (Lord of Chaos) was so much better, in fact, one of the best fantasy books I've ever read. So many unexpected developments, both in plot and character, it was brilliant. Unlike FoH, LoC actually kept me turning the pages since I wanted to see what was going to happen next. And the ending was great too, for once it didn't end with Rand killing one of the Forsaken. The only thing I was dissapointed with was not with the actual book itself, but rather the magazine review from Locus Magazine, which gave away what was going to happen at the ending! So if you want to avoid knowing the ending, don't read any of the magazine extracts!
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