Just ignore the Shaido parts. The rest is a decent read, even if "very little if anything happens" (oh, the horror!). Certainly better than EOTW or TGS or TDR.
TEOTW starts us on the journey, plenty of action, world building, interesting characters met for the first time.
TGS - monumental stuff up about how it and TOM are structured around plot lines instead of chronologically, and not by RJ, but still a lot more action, character development and interesting things then COT.
TDR - Rand becomes the TDR to the world at large, takes Callandor, Mat starts turning from annoying git into the best character in the series.
I don't get how anyone can rate COT above any other WOT time book. Even TPOD was action and character driven overload compared to COT.
Do not, I repeat, do not re-read this book
18/12/2010 10:23:48 AM
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I coulda told ya that. It took me two months of torture to get through that thing the 2nd time!
*NM*
18/12/2010 11:08:18 AM
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It's not actually that bad if you're not an angry, resentful, bitter person.
18/12/2010 11:54:54 AM
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Re: It's not actually that bad if you're not an angry, resentful, bitter person.
18/12/2010 12:11:53 PM
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The Aes Sedai are still bound by the Three Oaths even as damane *NM*
18/12/2010 01:31:43 PM
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18/12/2010 01:39:26 PM
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the S.C. think that all channelers are dangerous and need to be collared to keep them in line. *NM*
18/12/2010 11:25:31 PM
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I never found it to be that bad.
18/12/2010 12:23:55 PM
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Better then EOTW, TGS or TDR?!?!
19/12/2010 01:55:06 AM
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Its a great book. You'd know if you stopped sniffing trolloc behind. *NM*
18/12/2010 04:39:27 PM
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Re: Do not, I repeat, do not re-read this book
18/12/2010 08:18:56 PM
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When dot pointing the books mentally COT I have Ituralde starts his campaign, Egwene kidnapped *NM*
19/12/2010 02:01:30 AM
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I don't even remember what happened in that book. At all. And I reread it 3 times! I was that bored. *NM*
18/12/2010 11:28:28 PM
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