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This third book was better yet than the first two of the series. However, Jordan is driving me nuts in the way he portrays his women. They are constantly folding their arms, scowling, and telling the men-folk that they are "wool-headed idiots" or "sheep-headed fools" or something along those lines. Frankly, I don't know why the men put up with that. Even Lan, who is essentially Aragorn, lifted straight out of Tolkien and plopped in the middle of this story, tolerates being treated like a twelve-
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This one was slightly better than the second. Again, I appreciated the focus on some of the more interesting characters instead of the main character, Rand, who Jordan will hopefully fill out in a more interesting way-since a lot of the action surrounds him (being the 'hero' and all). My favorite characters are Perrin and the women, particularly Min and Nynaeve and this installment focuses a lot on Perrin and on Nynaeve. Mat and Rand seem to not be developming much and seem to cling to the same
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A few cool things happen. I have come to hate all the females in the series; if they all die in the next book that will be great. I like the character Mat has become even if most of the abilities he has just magically appeared out of nowhere with no previous hint that he had them.
Feb 28, 2008
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