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Summary: Save your money
Review: This review is for the casual fantasy novel reader, not teenage/young adult fanatics of the series. Okay, for all of you that have made it through the first five books and are wondering whether or not to continue, don't. The first four books are pretty solid work, well-developed and fun to read, if not a little long (where is his editor I wonder). But beginning in book 5 everything starts to slow way down. Book 6 is 900 pages and nothing happens. Even worse, the two stated goals at the beginning are not met by the end and it takes the author 100 pages in book seven to wrap things up. Finally, the characters are becoming less and less likeable in each novel, which makes you wonder what's the point? My advice is to read something by David Eddings or Terry Brooks, the true leaders in this field.
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Summary: The Last
Review: I would say this is the last of the core series, before they started going downhill. Beware after this. The cool moments become few and far between. I am a slave now, and will keep reading (at least in paperback). If you're this far, that's probably true of you, too. However, it's not too late to turn back. Life is to short to read bad books.
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Summary: Not just a filler story as many have complained!
Review: This very intense addition to the Wheel of Time series has a huge amount of plot furthering, sub-plot creating and furthering, surprises and twists, and everything you should expect after reading any of Jordan's books. Things happen to characters that are so unexpected I had to re-read the paragraphs involved! Other twists and turns include (without spoiling it for anyone) the return of people thought long gone, new love twists, a gathering (however breif) of the ta'veren-- sorry, I know that's a little spoiler-- and much more. People who have donned this as a "just another filler", in my opinion probably did not make it to the end. In my opinion, none of the series so far has been boring, or needless. Jordan weaves his craft as handly as an Aes Sedai weaves the One Power, and I'm cracking open book seven as soon as I finish this review. Enjoy the novel!
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Summary: Lord of Chaos
Review: This book is my personal favorite so far in the series. It had many pros and a little con. the pros were: the creating of the black tower. the healing nyneave can do. and the last chapter is very good. there is also much much more. the bad sides are there are still long talks between nyneave and elayne. The boring tugging of braids, smoothing of skirts, and icy stares.
The last chapter,Dumai's Wells, is my favorite because of the battle there. Over all it was the best so far to my opinion.
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Summary: Lord of Chaos-book six in the Wheel of Time
Review: Personally, I think Lord of Chaos is severely underrated. Most teens say Lord of Chaos is borning and lacks action like in the earlier books. Who ever thought of that? Now, in the six book, Rand, the dragon reborn, continues to show signs of maddness, and, sends away his Aiel love, Aviendha, fearing she too will be affected by his wraith. Lews Therin now is stuck in Rands head, waiting for a chance to seize control of Rand's body. Egwene, now finishing her training with the Wise Ones, heads for Saildar to confront her destiny. Mat, with the aid of his ter'angreal, has become a great war general, and is sent to bring Elayne back to Camyln. And Perrin, Lord of the Two Rivers, is feeling the urge to join Rand, an urge of ta'evern against ta'evern.
All in all, this book is fantastic. Mat's dry sence of humor is great, and the all out battle of Aes Sedai vs. Asha'man will have sitting on the edge of your reading chair. A great read.
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Summary: Choas in a 150 review
Review: Hello all of you out there in computer land. I've been reading "The Lord of Chaos" and man have I been stunned! Even through reading the first 5 books in this series I am still amazed in the quality of this book and when I would be scrounging for new ideas Robert Jordan just keeps coming back for more! In the "Lord of Chaos" Rand al'Thor has learned knew spells and is finally approaching the "Last Battle" with the Dark One. If you have read any of Robert Jordan's other works then I'm sure you will agree with me that this is one book set apart from the rest. If I was to guess the quality of the next book in the series of "The Wheel of Time" then I would say that is going to be even better than the first. All in all this was an awesome book. Yours truly,
Cloud Strife
(Sean McGuirk)
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Summary: A really fun book
Review: This is a truely remarkable book so far. I just can't seem to be able to put it down. In just three days of reading I'm on page 577.
In this book there is a very large plot twist and lots of action. It also reveals many of the plans of all of the main characters and groups, such as: Rand, Sammael, Pedron Niall, the Shaido Aiel, Morgase, and the Little Tower. It developes many relationships between many of the main characters, and all in all, is so far a great book. If you enjoy fantasy then I suggest you pickup the series at it's beginning, but if this is the book that you're on in the WoT, then I suggest you pick it up. Even if you didn't finish The Fires of Heaven I would suggest that you pick up this book and read it, because what Jordan lost in his fifth book he finds in the sixth book.
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Summary: One of the best so far
Review: This is one of the best books from the Wheel of Time Series. In this you learn alot about the Forsaken, and Demendred talks to the Dark Lord and Sammeal tries to make a treaty with Rand. But i still believe it is the best wheel of time book
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Summary: An amazing novel
Review: Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan is a great novel. The ending is one of the most dramatic he has written. I even think the bulk of the book has a stronger plot than the books four or five. Jordan still writes annoying conversations between Nynaeve and Elayne, but they seem to be doing something important for the first time....ever. Perrin character seemed to completely change. I don't think Jordan has the same mindset for him in book six as he did in book one, but Perrin and Failes parts of the novel were also better written than usual aside from Perrin's conversation with Faile's father. I also enjoyed the increased focus on Matrim Cauthon. He is becoming the most interesting character. And the best part of the novel is that we no longer have to read about Aveindha sharing Rand's bed chamber. What happens. Rand travels around, and the black tower is created. Rand doesn't accomplish much beside learning not to trust Aes Sedai. Mat is a decoy headed to Fight Sammuel but ends up in Ebou Dar. Egwene joins Elayne and Nynaeve. Nynaeve and Elayne make amazing discoveries. Perrin is pulled to Rand. Not much really happens. I also noted something about Loial's speech. He speaks Noun, Verb, Rest of sentence. Every sentence, that makes him sound different compared to the rest of the novel. Just an observation. Good book, I hope the next one is as good.
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Summary: nice return
Review: ***3.5 stars*** Just when it looked as if the Wheel of Time series was going nowhere and no longer worth reading, Jordan comes back with the entertaining Lord of Chaos. Plenty of problems persist -- Jordan's not much of a writer, it's too long, and some of the characters are caricatures -- but enough things are improved over the previous two volumes to make the book recommendable. One of the best changes is that Jordan brings back the bad guys. A problem with recent books, IMO, was that Jordan didn't spend nearly enough time on the activities of the evil powers in the world that he created, and little of their plotting was revealed. SciFi/fantasy books need good villains to succeed, and considering how unlikeable or boring most of the good guys are most of the time, Jordan needs to keep the evil-doers present in order to generate interest, and he does it here. Furthermore, Rand has finally emerged here as an interesting character. He's nothing like the Rand of the first two books, and I guess that's the point. Anyway, Jordan has found a way to make Rand a sort of haunted, complex anti-hero type, and this measurably improves all of the chapters in which he appears. Also, unlike the previous two books, this one gets back to good plotting, good pacing and creating a sense of unity. In other words, after reading Lord of Chaos, you actually feel like you read a book instead of 1000 pages containing randomglimpses of something much bigger. Sure, ther was a 200-250 page section of bloat in the middle of the book where things started to bog down and began to lose my interest, but everything picked up again and moved toward a very exciting climax.
I do wish that Jordan wouldn't be so obvious in his "twists" and be subtle about such things. I mean, the whole idea of Mazrim Taim and the Ashaman is a really good one, but the prologue gives away what is actually going on, and this is really too bad. Jordan does this all the time, and you wonder if he is either really underestimating his audience, or just doesn't know how allow such things to develop naturally and without undue clues. (In case you haven't figured out one of his techniques, 90% of the time that a character vehemently denies something, you know it will actually happen later on).
Still, this is a pretty good book, and is good enough to be considered on the same level as books 2 and 3, IMO.
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