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Title: Eh?
Review: I read this book when it came out, and it was the first WoT book I had to wait for (1-2 years). I was a little shocked to discover how many people hated it, but in retrospect I can see that it had a lot to do with how long some people had been waiting for the series to end, and that the effect was a cumulative thing which began for some as early as TSR (though now most people consider the books to get progressively slower beginning at ACOS; many older fans go further back, and some referred to LOC, now a fan favorite, as 'half a book').It's interesting to see how these things develop as the years go on. Now, most new readers don't even notice the blip in the slower books, and many seem as shocked as I was that COT is so hated. For its place in the series, it does I think exactly what it was supposed to do, and there is quite a bit of value in it that is overlooked.
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