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Summary: Next...
Review: Readers who've been giving 4 or 5 stars to this book or others in the series amaze me. No doubt a fair percentage of them watch the daytime soaps that run for 20+ years...Quantity doesn't mean quality. Another review stated that an author writing a "series" keeps going until he "runs out of ideas." NOT TRUE. A series should be as long as it needs to be without meandering. LOTR was three books (4 if you count The Hobbit) but every page meant something, served a purpose, moved the story forward. WOT treads water. Is Jordan getting paid by the page? Or by the word? Where ten words could suffice, Jordan uses two hundred and fifty. I have just enough interest in these characters to keep me reading the series, but I don't need page-long descriptions of everyone's hair, breeches, chin, face, skirt, expression, cleavage, skin color, sweat, shoes, etc. Or the furniture, paintings, murals, carpet, ceilings, gardens, horses, inns, dust and brambles around them. Why does every character we meet, however minor, need a first name, last name, physical description, brief history, etc.? If there's an innkeeper, just call her "innkeeper," not "Mistress so-and-so, a Taraboner, with a high-pitched voice and a round face, not beautiful but handsome, wearing a dress which would have put any Domani woman to shame, a low neckline displaying considerable cleavage, and black, curly hair falling to her shoulders, with a gleam in her eye, blah blah blah." NO ONE CARES. I have given up keeping track of people, especially the 200 different Aes Sedai and the 450 servants we've met along the way. I no longer care where the countries are in relation to one another, or who rules them, or who leads the armies, because it simply doesn't matter. Perhaps Jordan alone isn't to blame. We keep buying his books. And who the heck is the editor? I will be moving on to 7 and 8, eventually, but I feel no sense of urgency since apparently this story will never end.
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Summary: One of the better Jordan books
Review: Well, I frankly found the Fires of Heaven extremely boring. But this book I rather enjoyed. All the characters change and improve somewhat, and the ending is the best of any book I've read so far by this author. This book is worth reading, if you can read quickly. Else you'll be reading for the rest of your life!!
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Summary: Yawn....
Review: ....when I had trouble sleeping at night...all I had to do was pick this book up and I'd be passed out within 15 minutes. I've read the first six books of this series, and this one by far, was the most difficult to get into and finish. The only character who seemed to grow and mature was Egwene. Perhaps it is time for me to go to another author/series...any suggestions?
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Summary: I don't understand people
Review: I really don't understand the mindset that would say this isn't a good book. It was spellbinding. There is character development. You care whether most of the characters live or die. There is ample development of the storyline and you feel a move to the end of the series especially with the massive developments of the end. It may not be great literature (but then it may be), but it is a fun read that doesn't seem nearly as long as it is.
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Summary: Another great book
Review: People complain that this series and in particular the last couple of books have been stretched out and nothing happens but they're still great reading. The storyline doesn't develop a great deal in this particular book but that doesn't matter because it is so absolutely addictive and if it did, the end of a great series would draw nearer. While we want to know what happens, we don't want the series to end.
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Summary: Great book! Can't wait for more!
Review: This was a great book. I didn't feel however that is the best in the series. The last book and this one seems to have platued and I'm waiting to see what happenes next. I don't see how Jordan will be able to finish the main plot and all the sub-plots in to originall said ten books. The constant movement and the intertwining of the characters really are what make this book and the whole series wonderful. This is definately one of the greatest series I have ever read. Thanks!
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Summary: In Randland, men are from Mars, women are from Venus...
Review: Level-headed people are from the planet Earth. Men! They're so arrogant! Always thinking with their hormones! Women! One can never be sure as to what they're thinking! Better to deal with a gholam on LSD!! Although this almost overshadows the real story most of the time, Rand's quest is still paramount and compelling! Jordan is as great or greater than Tolkien, as great or greater than Shakespeare...yeah, right!! People who say things like that do not know what they are talking about! Period. Through the end of this book, the series is about 5,500+ paperback pages! One needs patience and a lot of it to get through these volumes, but it is definitely worth it!
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Summary: nothing happens
Review: The 6th book in the WoT series is the least interesting so far. All those pages to say almost nothing at all, there were maybe two or three interesting developments but it surely lacks the standard and intensity of the earlier books. Some things are really annoying; the extremely stereotype relationships between men and women, the neverending descriptions of what people are wearing etc. It will be a long time before I pick up book number 7
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Summary: The story reaches a new level
Review: The Lord of Chaos is a great step in the WoT story, not only because of it's length, but because there's a lot of new informations and revelations about the world, the characters, and the possible future. The reader is plunged into a complex and paranoid world of manipulations and treachery. I was beginning to see Forsaken everywhere during this book, and Rand seems slowly gained by insanity. The creation of the Black Tower give a new vision of the future of the story. The end is purely fantastic, a monument of stress and action.
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Summary: Huge
Review: This book is huge; (which is not saying much in regards to the WOT, but this book seemed the biggest so far) so huge I can barely remember anything that happens, except the ending which was decent. Besides that, I do remember the beginning of the book where various peoples were gathered in the court of Tear to witness Rand announce something or punish someone or some such thing (again, my memory fails me). Anyway, a good chunk in the beginning of the book detailed how everybody in that court was staring at or studying someone else. Really; it went something like this (and I'm not quoting verbatim): "the Tairen lords were studying Rand, blah, blah, blah. The Cairhens were watching the Tairen lords, yadda, yadda, yadda. In truth, everyone was watching somebody else." Wow. Exciting. Everyone was watching someone else. Please excuse the sarcasm but it does this for at least 15 pages or so (and that could very well be a conservative estimate). Maybe I'm entirely missing the point but was this really necessary? Was it really important to have all these people stand around watching someone else? And even if it was, was it necessary to go on and on about it? This to me as a good example as any of Jordan's problem of "diahrrea of the pen" (or word processor). Lots and lots of words to announce that Rand was leaving Tear or something or that Elayne and Egwene decide to go and find a bowl. You have to do a lot of reading (or perusing) to find the choice bits, of which there are few, in ANY WOT book. Of course, this is still better than book 7 (and perhaps 8, as suggested from some of the customer reviews for that book), where the entire books looks to be filler, but that's really no excuse. I'm afraid I'll give this book 2 stars, despite the exciting ending because I just can't recall the other 500+ pages of the book, except the exciting ending and the scene where the people stand around looking at each other.
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