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Title: How slow can you go???
Review: With the first 6 books of the Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan has proven that he is a most brillant writer. With the last 4 books however, he has proven that he knows how to crush momentum and interest- and Crossroads of Twilight seems to be the worst of them all. I say "seems", because I have not yet finished the book. I am just over 400 pages into it, however, and NOTHING has happened. Minor characters are described and analyzed in painstaking detail, as are plots, subplots, settings, etc. Detail is good...but too much (WAY too much) of a good thing, isn't. If the last four books were written with the same flair and strength as the first 6, this would have been the last and greatest book. Jordan had established himself as a veritable legend with the first 6 books. Comparisons to Tolkien were VERY appropriate. Now, he needs to be succinct and INTERESTING in his last few to pull the series out of mediocrity and back into greatness.
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