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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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Mar 09, 2012
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If you thought you were going to get to read about Rand, The Dragon Reborn, in this book, think again. He gets like maybe an hour out of the 27 that this audiobook runs. Most of the first half is taken up with some very boring stuff with Nynaeve, Egwene and Elayne. I got to the point where I was really hoping they would get killed, or at least have their heads shaved so Nynaeve wouldn't be able to tug on her braid so much. And then we switched to Mat. I was so happy to be away from the girls' st
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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.
reading this book was not enjoyable to me. there is no joy and happiness at all throughout the book. it felt dragging and depressing and sad and stressful and angry and i had to force myself to finish it.
the last few chapters were good, but it didn't justify the majority of the book. and it describe women as such whiny, stubborn, annoying creature, sometimes i want to slap them to stop being so bitchy. ...more
the last few chapters were good, but it didn't justify the majority of the book. and it describe women as such whiny, stubborn, annoying creature, sometimes i want to slap them to stop being so bitchy. ...more
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