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Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, Book 10)
The first time I read the Eye of the World Series I echoed the sentiments of a lot of the other posters who have chimed in on this series. After book 5 I felt there was a drop off in the quality and direction of the story. I was even disappointed with books 8,9, and 10. But recently I decided to reread the entire series and I found out that if read straight through this is a Helluva story. I mean the writing is truly incredible. Because of the scope of the story I found that the wait between books was a definite cause of my discontent. There was simply too much to remember after waiting a year or two for the next book in the series.I beleive that for those who truly appreciated the first 4 to 6 books but felt Jordan was loosing his touch after that, try reading the entire series. Read all 10 books as one continuous story and do not pay attention to each individual volume. I beleive you'll come away with a new appreciation for what Jordan has created.
Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, Book 10)
I must agree with seveal reviews I have already read, that Robert Jordan may just be writing now to fill his bank account, but at the same time, the way he writes is not all action and thins blowing up. This, is a book only for thoes that can follow plot after plot after plot, and have atleast a basic understanding of political intregue and hidden meaning. Quite frankly, most of his readers, in order to understand all of his works you have to read into everything like a Cairhienan. Most of this book and the one before it has been for "Set up purposes" to arange where things will be going. Yes, you should read into what the people you've never heard of before are doing. If you can not follow where all of the information is going, like following 1000 lines to 10000 different points, than perhaps this is just a filler book for you.
Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, Book 10)
I AGREE WITH THE REVIEWS OF THIS BOOK,BUT I HAVE READ AND RE READ THE OTHERS AND AM AND STILL AM A FOLLOWER OF THE WHEEL OF TIME SERIES...WHAT CHOICE DO I HAVE...OH YOU CAN SAY I WILL NOT BUY THE NEXT..BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO ...AND THE HOPES THAT IT AT LEAST WILL BE BETTER..AND MABE EVEN END..I WOULD HOPE THAT IT ENDS AFTER THIS FILLER MATERIAL..I CLASSIFY THIS BOOK 10 MERELY AS THE MOST FILLER MATERIAL I VE EVER READ..HOW MANY WAY S CAN YOU DESCRIBE A BLACK BURNT SHRIVELED UGLY DISGUSTING ASH LADEN,ECT..ECT...BUT IT DID FULFILL THE NEED FOR SOMETHING..MABE THE CONTRACT WAS SO MANY BOOKS UNDER A DEADLINE OR SOMEHTING..BUT ITS OBVIOUS THIS WAS A BOOK THAT WAS FORCED FROM THE AUTHOR AND DID NOT PLEASANTLY ROLL OFF THE TIPS OF THE FINGERS ONTO THE KEYBOARD..SO WITH HIGH HOPES I KNOW THE NEXT ONE WILL BE BETTER!! WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IT CANT GET ANY WORSE..SINCERLY ME
Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, Book 10)
before I began reading all of these reviews I had no idea that the series had began "slowing down at # 7." In fact I was confused lots of things happened in # 7.I do agree however that this book is not as good as the other nine especially when compared to the last chapter of #9, but it is still a wonderful and captivating book. Even though it annoyed me by wrapping up virtually nothing, things still happened, maybe you morons were just so confused by the # of characters and subplots that you just didn't notice.(If you have not read this book skip over this next 2 paragraphs because I reveal some plot elements)Matt falls in love with the daughter of the nine moons and courts her(though he probably would not admit it even to himself), matt is trying to avoid seanchan detection, a band of seanchan goes in search of tuons kidnapper, perrin finds the Aiel that have falon, perrin throws away his axe, Aes sedai with perrin begin visiting masema without his permission,perrin trys to figure out how to get her out(a blacksmith's puzzle), he could of course get her out simply by traveling into the camp and leaving a "gaishain" ashaman to find her, but it seems that perrin will not use this method (he hasn't even thought of it) but will use a method that gets rid of all his problems at once (they are all part of the same puzzle), rand had been resting from clensing the source and decides that he needs to make a truce with the sean chan, and many more events that I wont even get into. Most importantly the shadow seems to be growing in power: Weevils are everywhere, so harbor is haunted with ghosts, Aes Sedai cannot get rid of weavils, and other events.also as others have said, this book is setup for the next one. The shadow is growing stronger. matt's and perrin's pathes appear to be moving towards each other(yes perrin is sitting still but his blacksmith's puzzle involves the seanchan. Rand has freed himself from the seanchn or soon will with his truce and will be able to concentrate on other matters. The tower is cut off from food by egweenes work with cuendialar chains, which means the conflict between the two towers must soon progress. egweene herself is captured which means there will be fresh new plots there as well.This book is wonderfull, with all is detail characterizations and sublots, so if you morons who dislike WOT's complexity and think nothing happened (even though things did)don't bother writing a review saying this book sucks nothing happens, that has been said so just give it one star and move on, you obviously are not intelligent enough to be reading a complex involved series like WOT.
Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, Book 10)
The title of this new book continuing the WOT series is very appropriate: not only are the characters coming to a turning point in the epic's development, but it seems many of the readers are also.I'm not going to lie, I had a hard time making it through this book. It *is* filled with such detail on sub-plots and supporting characters that it justifies re-reading the series (3rd time). Just because it's not all focused on the main plot does not mean you are justified in trashing Robert Jordan. Get real folks-- this is an EPIC and the story of the beginning/end of an Era of Time in a Fantasy world takes just as much work and development of the sub-plots and many supporting characters as does the main plot. Assuming that any readers of this review are Fantasy fans, you must have read Tolkien (or at least seen the movies). The unfortunate truth for those who were bored by this book (and for those who found themselves nodding off during LOTR) is that epic stories don't happen in one thrilling burst. They are epic because they encompass entire worlds. Accusing Jordan of losing his mind or his abilities as a writer is ridiculous; you may as well say Tolkien wasted his time.You want the short and skinny "to the point" WOT? Here:Dude has to save the world. His friends help out and so do a bunch of other people. There are battles and stuff. Someone wins.And while you happily go on with your narrow view of the world and of fantasy, I will eagerly await the next volume.
Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, Book 10)
I was on the hardback trail of this seriers, and I managed to stop reading. Well, while looking around a Borders one day, I noticed CoT there in Paperback, figured I would give it another shot. I got this book on 1/16/2004, it is now 2/2/2004 and I haven't finished it yet. May not sound bad except for the fact that when I *love* a book, it can be finished in just a few nights. Hell, I remember getting one of Eddings books for Christmas one year and ended up spedning the entire afternoon and night reading and finishing it! CoT has put me to sleep several times already!I'm just about to start Chapeter 17, about 3/4 of the way through. Now, consider the fact that RAND HAS NOT SHOWN UP IN THE BOOK YET!!!!If you had got out of this series, don't make the mistake of giving it another shot, Jordan is probably going to drag this out long enough that he will reach the end of a long and prosperous writing career before he finishes this story off.If you haven't already, go read David and Leigh Eddings' books.