The Eye of the World

Wheel of Time, Book 1 , #1

mass market paperback, 814 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 1990 by Tom Doherty Associates.

ISBN:
978-0-8125-1181-9
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OCLC Number:
22671036

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The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

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2 stars

First Impressions:

I've never been a Wheel of Time fan. I read this book sometime back in high school, and was not really inspired by it. I started book 2, but never finished. It was too high fantasy for me, if you can believe it.

Since I remember so little of the book from when I read it in high school, and since reading Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson keeps me up at night, I decided to give this novel another try. So far, 20 pages in, I feel the same as I did back then. Although the prologue was intriguing, especially the part where Dragon turns himself into a volcano, the narrative itself is wordy and uninteresting.

After the prologue, we have Rand al'Thor riding with his father to the Bel Tine festival. There are some interesting elements that caught my attention: the 'traditional' elements, where the people …

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Subjects

  • Fantasy .
  • American Fantasy
  • Rand al'Thor (Fictitious character)
  • al'Thor Rand (Fictitious character)
  • Good and evil
  • Monsters
  • Fiction

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