Crossroads of Twilight (spoilers)

[JamesL85]

I'm a huge Jordan fan and was wondering what other people thought of book 10. I bought the book last night and am about halfway through it. By the time I check the boards tomorrow, I should be done with it and was wanting comments on the book itself, the entire series, and how many books everyone thinks it will finally take. If you can think of anything else to comment on about the Wheel of Time, let us know.....

 

[garyh]

Hi James,

A few thoughts:

- I'm still in the prologue. Jordan is the only author I know who can right an 80 page prologue. I like his work, but .

- I've read on either www.dragonmount.com or the unofficial FAQ that the series will be 13 books. Probably.

- You might want to edit in (Spoilers) to the title of the thread so those who haven't finished the book don't get surprised.

When I'm done with CoT, I'll check back here and let you know what I thought!

 

[jdavis]

Just started it this afternoon. I'll avoid this thread like the plague until I'm done with it. You should really mark it with a big Spoilers sign, once people start posting everything in this thread will end up spoilers.

 

[Salthanas]

Greetings

For me Crossroads of Twilight was a massive disappointment. The entire book reads like one massive prologue. Nothing happens of note and nothing gets resolved. Jordan has become the master of writing massive rambles which just don't seem to go anywhere. After book 9 I had high hopes that the next one would actually be quite full of incident but instead all the plot lines get inched forward and thats it, we don't learn anything new at all.

Although I really like some of the ideas behind the Wheel of Time and think that the first 6 or so books are really good the story seems to have become so overblown that the cracks are really starting to show now and in some parts feel rather contrived. This book is so bad and such a turkey that I certainly wont be recommending the Wheel of Time series to anyone until he actually finishes the bloody thing.

yours Salthanas

 

[Eben]

Originally posted by Salthanas:
For me Crossroads of Twilight was a massive disappointment. The entire book
reads like one massive prologue. Nothing happens of note and nothing gets
resolved. Jordan has become the master of writing massive rambles which
just don't seem to go anywhere. After book 9 I had high hopes that the next
one would actually be quite full of incident but instead all the plot lines get
inched forward and thats it, we don't learn anything new at all.

Funny, I had the same feeling with Crown of Swords and Path of Daggers. Winter's heart was somewhat better, but I still don't understand why he has his main character sitting around during the whole book and waits till the last chapter to finally do something.
I really wanted to keep liking this series. The setting is great, but this storie is just dragging. Put it out of his misery, RJ!

 

[Assenpfeffer]

You know, I have every volume of the series in hardcover. I haven't read Winter's Heart, having decided to wait. I had thought to wait until the story was finished before trying to read the whole thing.

But the other thread has got me thinking. If Crossroads is yet another Wheel of Time book in which nothing happens, I'm through. The whole collection is going on eBay.

I'm going to let the nice folks who post to this thread make the decision for me. Go ahead and spoil if you want. Convince me one way or the other - should I stick with it or abandon it, bearing in mind what happens in Crossroads?

 

[Salthanas]

Funny, I had the same feeling with Crown of Swords and Path of Daggers. Winter's heart was somewhat better, but I still don't understand why he has his main character sitting around during the whole book and waits till the last chapter to finally do something.
I really wanted to keep liking this series. The setting is great, but this storie is just dragging. Put it out of his misery, RJ!

PoD reads like a masterpiece compared to CoT. The characters just mainly sit around talking about what they are going to do. I'd post spoliers if I thought that there were any spoilers of note to actually post. The pace of the book is even slower than his last two offerings but they were made at least slightly palitable (particually WH) by something memorable happening in the book be it Rand cleansing Saidin or the battles with the seanchan. At this rate the only thing thats going to be noteworthy of the Wheel of Time series is its length. Jordan has simply made the series to slow and bland now for anything else to be memorable about it.


yours Salthanas

 

[ToddSchumacher]

I guess I'll chime in as one who LOVED it. Of course I'm a die hard core addict fan. But this book is full of plot points that further the story...just because there is no big battle scenes or duels with Forsaken people think its slow.

FFth!

We see the how the major event from the last book affected everyone else, and dictated why no one else joined the scene.

We see a MAJOR turning point from Perrin.

I very much enjoyed everey single MAT scene.

And the Last scene with Egwene got me howling to see the next book.

This was a VERY good book!

Maybe I'm not reading the same one everyone else seems to be.

 

[JamesL85]

I finally finished the book this morning (took me longer than I thought). I hear a lot of people bashing the series, and even more people bashing book 9 before this one was released and bashing this one even harder.

I enjoyed the book. Granted, there weren't any earth shattering conflicts, and I STILL don't see the end is sight, but I enjoyed it. I'm really beginning to like Mat. At this stage, I think he's one of the better characters in the series. There are still a TON of unanswered questions. Where is Moirane (sp?) is the one I ask myself the most. I was disappointed that the cleansing of saidin didn't take place until halfway through this book.

I checked both links you provided Gary (although the dragonmount link was a quick perusal) and I'm still curious how many books there will be in the series. I posted this on Monte Cooks EZboards and someone over there thought the series was going to be 12 books. This is almost as bad as Star Wars having to wait 2 years between books.

My $.02.

 

[Dagger75]

I need spoilers, I have read books 1-5 then put it down. How many BOOKS does it take to move an army over a bridge. Not a grand bridge into a city, but an undefended woodend bridge over a creek. Okay I may be exgarating a little bit but you know what I mean.

I have 1 friends who reads these books. I ask him for spoilers. I have basicaly read spoilers from book 6 to now to get what is going on.

I bet the series ends with Rand waking up from a dream. Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants.