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Title: Oh no you don't
Review: Well, I have to agree with the person below who wrote that Jordan's characters are completely boring, all too similar, and childlike. I have to disagree with the person who said Jordan doesn't "steal" ideas, he just adapts them. I'd agree with that IF Jordan's "borrowing" was simply the general story of reluctant savior/youth saves the world. But the parts he steals are entire characters, tendencies, battle styles, etc. The Void is straight out of Steve Perry's works, as is the "Crane Fights Boar" "Turtle Rushes Down Stream" etc. battle moves. The main characters start out as sad copies of David Edding's works. I'd call that stealing, not borrowing. Of course, we see from recent books 6-10 that Jordan is incapable of creating anything interesting any more, so that must explain it all.
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