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    <body><![CDATA[Very discriptive to the point where they are long winded.  Very good storyline and new version of &quot;magic&quot;.  Honestly all these books could be about half the lenght and not lose the point of the story.  If I put the books down for too long I'd have trouble remembering all the characters nam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40236038">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My reviews of The Wheel of Time novels are getting just as repetitive as the actual books. There's really not much more to say. A Crown of Swords is another long slow installment in which there are too many detailed descriptions of clothing, references to spanking, concerns about bosoms, and people ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51017115">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is frustrating. I'd venture to say that at most 20% of the book are actual material that advances the plot. Which is really disappointing, as those parts are still very well-written. The rest of it are repetitive and reused filler material. Nynaeve's still tugging her braids, Elaynes smoot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73268120">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[By far, my least favorite to this point. I am an extremely fast reader, like, I can crank thru a typical paperback in 2-4 days. It has taken me since APRIL of this year to get this stinking book done. I audibly groaned every page, it got worse as the book wore on. It was painfully slow, overly detai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67785577">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Three main plot lines in this book, the first of which is Rand, of course. It doesn't really come to a head until the end, but it's setting up his going after one of the Forsaken, Sammael. I enjoyed Rand's plot line is this book because Min, one of my favorite characters, was his nearly constant com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43896369">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The seventh book of the 2009 pre Gathering Storm reread and why are we not at the climax yet? Now, as we continue on our way one of the themes that Jordan seems intent on developing is that of evil. We don't have the glimpse into the heads of those characters as perhaps we should to truly see where ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43785675">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is 896 pages long.  There is 890 pages of NOTHING HAPPENING!<br/>Sure the plot progresses a little, there is a final battle (with an ending that is almost an afterthought), and you get to spend quality time with a bunch of characters that you'd rather not read about.  <br/>It's not that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34352783">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My goal for re-reading this series was to find the book that started the mad dash down hill.  It was this one.  The epilogue starts with the Shaido before the battle at Dumai's Wells--well before the occurrences at the end of the last novel.  Throughout the book, we're following one character for a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24317499">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a noticeable dip in the series for me. I think the biggest problem I had with it was that the conflicts of the series seemed to drastically change with this book. For one thing, the Forsaken take a dramatic turn for the worse, going into hiding much more. Yes, Sammael is still there, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23673427">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[With this book, we have reached the midpoint of the series (assuming that Brandon Sanderson doesn't manage to find another book in there somewhere) and like you might expect of a series this size, this is where things get soft in the middle.<br/><br/>If you look at various online reviews of this b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14145759">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan because both my husband and best friend had read them.  The best friend highly encouraged me to read the books - my husband warned me off.<br/><br/>The warning is not because the books are bad.  The first few, actually, are very good. Great characte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2366060">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. <em>Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.</em><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, Elayne is all ready to tear Mat a new one when she thinks he forced himself on a queen.  When she learns it's the other way around, she not only laughs, but outright makes fun of him.  She had her knife to his throat, Elayne, it's still rape if it happens to a man!<br/><br/>I don't care if s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46306827">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is about the point where I realized that the author had had a stroke.  The quality of the writing goes down a bit and isn't quite as intelligent or detailed.  Also, there's a lot of characters and plotlines to keep up with.  That's one of the things I like about these books.  Honestly, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63679980">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Look,I know it's been said before (by most everybody that has read this book) but The Wheel of Time has become such a chore by book 7 it's hard to keep reading. I read through book 9 in high school and never picked up another. However, now that Brandon Sanderson is finishing the series I want to kno...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76097660">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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