Crossroads of Twilight (WoT Book 10)

[Ashen Shugar]

Originally Posted by I, Brian

Hi Ashen Shugar, and welcome to the chronicles network.

Thank you very much Brian - it's great to be here. This site should come with warning labels however - I am spending far too much time here like now when I should be sleeping for work. Later tonight I will be saying, "Note to self - must not surf net during sleep time..."

[Ashen Shugar]

Originally Posted by Neon

Jordan did let the series fall away. I thought Crossroads of Twilight was by far the worst, since it was all prepation for action to come. On the other hand, I rather enjoyed Book 9 the Winter's Heart as compared to books 5-8. Isn't he slated to have a max of 12 in the series?

I thought I read somewhere he was trying to get it all out in 12, but it might end up being 13.

[erickad71]

Does anyone know when the next one is supposed to be out?...cause I'm too lazy to go look right now.

[Neon]

Book 11 is slated for sometime in 2005, but no set date has yet been announced I think.

[erickad71]

Jordan and GRRM...are they in a race to see who can take the longest to get done with their latest books?!*pouts*

[I, Brian]

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Originally Posted by erickad71

Jordan and GRRM...are they in a race to see who can take the longest to get done with their latest books?!*pouts*

Possibly more a case of the authors being overwhelmed by thier own works.

[Old Nick]

Book eleven should appear in october 2005.

[Mulgrave]

October 2005, well... let see! He probably has to write it first!

[Old Nick]

Probably, yes, but that's the date Jordan left anyway. His publisher claimed January for a while first...

[Rahl Windsong]

I recently found Crossroads of Twilight in hardcover and at a good sale price so I bought it. I am only about 50 pages into it but I am finding it to be more work then enjoyment. Too much rehashing, just get on with the story please. Why make the reader work to read the story, I don't get that at all.

I find this sort of like some of the Massive Multiplayer Online Game developers theory that a player should have to work to succeed and very often the work is boring. Instead make the work fun and then everything is good, even the part leading up to the payoff. It almost seems like Jordan himself does not know he is doing this with this story. A twelve book story may be too long even for an author of his obvious talents. I won't put the book down, nor will I stop reading this series before I reach the end, but getting there could be more enjoyable then it is proving to be.

Rahl

[Neon]

Rahl you will find the whole book like this ...... sorry to disappoint. All it basically did was further continue other plots without providing any type of resolution (or action). Hopefully the next book will be better.

[Rahl Windsong]

Ahh well at least my set will be intact and look nice on the shelf ...heh

Rahl

[Rahl Windsong]

Its hard to believe how poor this book actually is. I thought Winter's Heart was poor with the only significant thing being, Rand cleaning the floor err..male half of the One Power. However comparing this to GRRM's ASoIaF is not really fair to Mr. Martin, at least ASoIaF is still a good story. I would rather Jordan took 4 or 5 years per book then to turn out this trash. The chapters with Elayne are so boring I just started to skip them entirely. Not only that I have found many mistakes in this book, poor writing, poor editing, no emotion in the story what so ever. The best chapters are the ones with Perrin but even that part of the story is now seeming to drag on for no good reason. Either kill Faile of have her rescued! Please!

This is very sad and if he does not redeem himself with the last two books I doubt I would want to read a new series by this author. At the very least I would wait for several reviews before I did. And how on earth this could have "New York Times Best Seller" on the cover is beyond me. Did it get there from the good books in the series? I suppose it did.

Rahl

[AryaUnderfoot]

Originally Posted by Rahl Windsong

And how on earth this could have "New York Times Best Seller" on the cover is beyond me. Rahl

Curiosity kills the reader... sigh. I've found that Jordan is like a long, slow train-wreck. It's hard to tear your eyes away, especially when you're hoping for some redeeming quality at the end of it all.

I started getting really annoyed with the whole Perrin-Faile storyline. At first I thought Perrin was great, but the more Faile took over I realized that I couldn't stand her, and his obsession with her was making him a lunatic.

Now Mat is pretty much the only character I can stomach.

[Winters_Sorrow]

yeah, Mat's cool

it'd be better if he went schizo 'cos of all the voices/past lives he's experiencing, though.

I want to see him go up against Rand in a fight - two ta'varen (sp?) mano a mano