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Title: 50 pages crammed into a 680 page book.
Review: I've read all of Jordan's Wheel of Time books more then twice. I would give all of them 4+ stars. Until now.R.J. seems to be devolving into one of those self-important people who love to hear themselves speak (or read what they write in this case). All of his last 2 or 3 books suffered from page bloat, in that 100 pages of useless dialogue (not moving the story), hackneyed phrases and yet another new character to take up space (when he can't seem to devote enough to developing some of the main ones). Crossroads does not suffer from bloat, it seems to revel in page bloat. This book could have been cut down to about 50-75 pages and still had it's usual dose of men complaining about women, women thinking men need to be controlled and people knuckling and sniffing.My advice for readers who haven't picked this up yet, but love the series....wait 6 months and get it out of the 5.99 bin. It will kill a few days time, but not much else.
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