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Title: and miles to go before I sleep
Review: Lets cover the obvious points quickly. First, this is indeed a masterfully detailed chapter in a massive saga. Second, this book will not silence the critics of the pacing of the last three to four installments because it just crawls. Third, if you have ever read another massive fantasy saga (such as the Amber novels) you realize that there is a difference between pacing and sheer ponderousness (which this book suffers from). Fourth, those of us who embarked upon this saga are doomed to purchase every remaining book (whose timelines have now been reduced to the same passage of time as it takes the average reader to read this book), but if you have not spent a mini fortune on the Wheel of Time saga yet, for pity's sake go buy George Martin's Song of Fire and Ice saga instead. I can only pray that the remaining time it will take for Robert Jordan to complete this excuciating task will not exceed my lifetime or his.
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