Decent Start to a Series that goes downhill quickly

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	• The Wheel of Time (Boxed Set #1) Robert Jordan Tor Books, 1993 - 2272 pages average customer review:based on 104 reviews view larger image
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Wonderful series, hoping for a super ending!

Robert Jordan will be sorely missed, but the final book will go on. His widow, Harriet, picked Brandon Sanderson to finish the series. It is expected to come out in the Fall of 09. I know I can hardly wait, I'm just glad I found the series a few years ago as I wouldn't have been able to stand waiting for each one to come out. Goodbye RJ, you will live on in all of your wonderful work.

Decent Start to a Series that goes downhill quickly

This series starts off decently with the first book introducing us to a well thought out world. Unfortunately the story is not as well designed as the universe, which takes away much from the book. The characters, some of whom are supposed to be extremely intelligent and worldly people, are all unable to see what obvious actions by others mean. When a character starts acting strangely, they are unable to understand it for 4-500 pages (or several books later on) when the average person should be able to reason it out in a few minutes.

Eventually he starts drawing out the stories so much that it becomes tedious reading. It took him 3 books for a "military plan" to come to fruition. He hinted at it being this grand scheme and in the end, one chapter was enough for the entire thing. The stories and plots that most writers would start and finish in the same book he draws out for 6 or more sometimes. He doesn't make them any more interesting or complicated, nothing happens. At least a quarter of his books are simply explaining the clothes people are wearing with the color, how it's cut, and how much lace they have on. Another quarter is describing scenery and the like. The rest is just boring plot which takes books to finish what should take a chapter.

I'm about 100 pages from finishing the 10th book, and almost nothing has happened in the entire series. The only reason I'm still reading is I've spent $100 and hundreds of hours reading so far and since nothing has happened but certain things have to happen, the last two books should be good. Yet I'm really afraid that all that's going to happen is the same nothingness until the last chapter someone wakes up and it was all a dream.

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One ofthe best high fantasy sagas I have read

As a LOTR fan, I find good high fantasy titles hard to find. This was not the case. A friend of mine which is also into this kind literature had told me about it a couple of times. Not unil recently I gave it a chance.

I hope you (the reader) fidn this helpful even if I can only say a couple of words about these books: Great work from Robert Jordan. I didnt expect to be so into the books as much as I was into LOTR the first time I read it.

I fully recommend it!

It will not be an incomplete series!!

First I want to resond to a earlier post. Yes Robert Jordan has died before finishing the last book, but another writer is finishing the book based on his notes and recordings, that, by the way, has the ending to the last book. It will be published in 2009.
As far as the series. I bought the first book in 1990 when it first came out and I was hooked. He created a detailed world with great characters. You will not be disappointed.

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The First three are Great

The first three books of the wheel of time series are really good. In my opinion everything leading up to book number eight was really good. Then the series starts slipping into a terrible bog of pointless point of view chapters, many from point of view characters that aren't even important.
The problem with the series after book seven is that the series begins to cover signifigantly less, and less time in Rand-land, whereas the beggining books (The first three in particular) each cover a year or more of book time, the later books begin to cover half-years and eventually just months of time in the wheel of time.
The first three books are really cool. Characters and setting are presented spectacularly, and Robert Jordan is truly a master at creating a intricate and fascinating fantasy world. Humans, trollocs, shades, Aes'sedai, and countless quibbling nation states create a fascinating world and setting. A interesting philosophic view of time and the world around the Wheel of Time create atmosphere, and a fascinating ancient history creates wonderful subtext for the events in the books.
The first three books are well worth having, and in my opinion everything up to seven is good. This is a good buy, for a relatively cheap price, and of course if you have never picked up any of the wheel of time books a good place to start is the beggining... Allthough theoretically in Rand-Land time is a loop, so perhaps you can start anywhere you like and eventually cycle through it one way or another.

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