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Submitted by Anonymous
(Dec 23, 2000)

This book was the most awful work of fantasy that I have ever read. it was boring and a complete waste of time. The characters were described badly and Jordan has some very bad problems with his books. They are too descriptive and long. They try to bore the reader to death and then at the end try to make it exciting but it just ends up confusing the reader and making a bad end to crappy beginning. Don't read these books. They are a waste of time and if you want a good fantasy series read Goodkind's books. They are way better than these hunks of paper.

Im only on the first book, Eye of the world is verry decriptive and gives a good setting for each scean. I have only 90 more pages left and i cant wate to find out what happens next in the next book.Robert Jordan is a very good writer and how long is this series? hopefuly it will never end.

I stumbled onto the Wheel of Time after reading several series from Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms to the Death Gate Cycle, Lord of the Rings and Apprentice Adept series.  All of these series had enormous potential, but never fulfilled their capabilities in plot, character development, and complexity.  The Eye of the World immediately set itself up for big expectations with the Prologue, "DragonMount".  What appeared to be a classic hero-sets-off-on-a-quest book became so much more.  More than just good vs. evil, this book more closely represents what our real society is like...twisting both good and evil for the selfish good or the good of others and so on. And the best part of it is...you can never underestimate or overestimate any one character whether hero or villian.  All this with a touch of satire makes this book and the Wheel of Time series one the very best ever written.  Jordan has definitely taken fantasy up another few notches of complexity and vision.  And so far, Jordan has lived up to the big expectations set up by the Prologue, and even gone beyond them.  This would also certainly make a great saga of movies capable of being beyond that of the Star Wars saga.

One of my friends told me about this book. At first I was pretty sceptical about reading this book. Even though I heard lots of praise to the book there were still lots of people who spoke negatively about it. Finally, I decided to try it and decide myself.

At first the book was what I thought it would be: typical fantasy with a hero on a quest. And this opinion continued for some time, until I realized what a complicated story the author is trying to perform for the reader. I felt some kind of respect to the author who is not afraid to mix up the minds of his readers. Robert Jordan really makes the book compicated.

There were also disappointments in this book. One of them was that the book had to much taken from LOTR. As well, all the characters  were a little too obvious. I could guess from the very beginning that Rand is going to be a male Aes Sedai and the Dragon Reborn. Also, other character who surround Rand are too artificial and resemble too much with such in other fantasy books. Jordan's book are very similar to every other fantasy I read for years.

Still there are some interesting things in his book such as plot. And I would probably continue to read the serie no matter how poorly the characters were done.

I started reading fantasy literature in high school with Tolkien's masterpiece. I, of course, became hooked on the genre and continued to read throughout college. I had heard many good things about Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series, but felt a little daunted about approaching a series of such epic proportion without any prior knowledge of the world in which it took place. I had also heard that it was difficult to get into.
However, what I found was quite the contrary. The impression and chills I got upon reading the first few pages linger with me still. I will never forget the blustery winter day when we first met the dark rider.
Jordan is a master at not only setting the mood and scene, but also at making each event personal and real. He makes Perrin's struggle with the wolves all to vivid and many nights did I lie wondering what that must have been like.
I would have to say that not only does Robert Jordan create a world comparable to that of Tolkien's, but he surpasses him in his ability to recreate a journey as the one shared by the characters in "Eye of the World."