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Title: The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan, Michael Kramer, Kate Reading ISBN: 1-59007-398-3 Publisher: New Millennium Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 16 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.78 (1659 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: The last Wheel of Time book I will read
Comment: "A Path Of Daggers," the 8th volume in Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series, was for me the end to what had been a great reading experience. After the steadily slowing saga began to drag, drag, drag, I decided to bail on Jordan's bloated epic. Based on the reviews of volumes 9 and 10, I'm glad I did. After reading this installment, I'm surprised people have stuck on for two more. At one time I was enthralled with the story; now I could not care less about the tale's resolution.
I won't be finishing this series, and I don't mind a bit.
What was once an epic, well-plotted, well-paced story with interesting characters and an intriguing (if dense) plot became by this volume a plodding, directionless, dreary mess with little to grip the reader save increasingly bad and repetitive characterization and prose begins to grate. (The decline, for me, began in volume 6, but the story remained engaging enough to keep going. By Path of Daggers, that was no longer the case)
The most blunt review one can give would look like this: This book is boring.
Very little happens. The characters are either badly portrayed or are simply annoying. The writing is mediocre. The plot - well, there isn't a plot.
Rather than tie up plot threads, Robert Jordan instead lets them dangle, barely even inching them forward. He abandons some subplots whole. While doing this, he throws even MORE plot threads out. The massive story that once moved with great agility despite its size now lumbers like a drunken beast. It's as if Jordan is trying to figure out where to go next. It seems Jordan is writing from the hip - and it doesn't work.
If you've gotten through the volumes before this but are unsure if you want to go on, I can only urge that you DON'T. If you're a Jordan loyalist, read on, but others should be warned that from here on in, it's all downhill.
Rating: 2
Summary: really a let down
Comment: I was really dissapointed with this book. I love the others, but at the Lord of Chaos, it started slipping. A crown of swords was better cuz it actually had an ending, but this! this book sucks!i mean, Mat wasn't in it at all, and he had like the BEST roll! the last thing they said about him was in the end of a crown of swords when the seanchan attacked ebou dar. then they just STOP! i couldnt believe it! and then, the biggest dissapointment was Rand. i mean, he didnt do anything the whole book until the end when he attacked the seanchan. but he killed his own army witht eh lightning and the seanchan regroup adn ride away. i mean, all i can say is WHAT THE HECK???? id read it just so that you can finish the series though, but be warned.
Rating: 1
Summary: This one made me quit the series.
Comment: I picked up The Path of Daggers after a several year hiatus from The Wheel of Time. While the distance between volumes certainly caused me to lose enthusiasm, and I realize my taste in fiction has changed somewhat, this book seemed worse than the others by far. After about one hundred pages of hair-pulling, ear-boxing, saidar-drawing, women grumbling about men, and vice versa, I realized I simply couldn't finish it. There's nothing wrong with a plotless novel (or plot-minimal, here) but they need substance otherwise, I wasn't getting anything from The Path of Daggers. Other reviewers talk of character development, but most of the thousand or so characters populating WoT seem to have changed little since they were introduced, and I find most unlikable. This is the only book I've completely given up on in the last five years.
Thanks for the early books, Robert.
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Title: Lord of Chaos (The Wheel of Time, Book 6) by Robert Jordan ISBN: 0812513754 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Crossroads of Twilight (Wheel of Time, Book 10) by Robert Jordan ISBN: 0812571339 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, Book 5) by Robert Jordan ISBN: 0812550307 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, Book 4) by Robert Jordan ISBN: 0812513738 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, Book 3) by Robert Jordan ISBN: 0812513711 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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