The Great Hunt : Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time' (Wheel of Time) [UNABRIDGED]
- Book Review,
by Robert Jordan, et al
From Library Journal
Chosen by fate to become the Dragon Reborn--savior and destroyer of his world--young Rand al'Thor attempts to outrun his destiny by joining in a mad search for the lost Horn of Valere. Continuing the story begun in The Eye of the World ( LJ 2/15/90), Jordan creates a lush, sprawling tapestry of a novel in the tradition of Tolkien and Eddings. Recommended where fantasy is popular.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From AudioFile
THE GREAT HUNT is the second novel in Robert Jordan's massive Wheel of Time fantasy series. Michael Kramer and Kate Reading alternate sections, depending on which character (male or female) holds the shifting point of view. The large book is slow moving, especially at the beginning. Kramer and Reading help the prose along, providing much-needed spark to the characters. The author continually drags the story back to petty arguments between male and female characters, which becomes tedious. On the plus side, the action scenes, Jordan's specialty, are excellent. S.D. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Review
“Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal....The battle scenes have the breathless urgency of firsthand experience....The evil laced into the forces of good, the dangers latent in any promised salvation, the sense of unavoidable onslaught of unpredictable events bear the marks of American national experience during the last three decades.”—The New York Times
“Adventure and mystery and dark things that move in the night—a combination of Robin Hood and Stephen King that is hard to resist. Furthermore, Jordan makes the reader put down the book regretting the wait for the next title in
the series.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“The Wheel of Time is a fantasy tale seldom equaled and still less often surpassed in English.” —Chicago Sun-Times
"Read by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer, who breathe life into this epic tale."--Patriot News
Review
Praise for Book One of The Wheel of Time:
"The Eye of the World is the best of its genre."--The Ottawa Citizen
"A powerful novel of wide and complex scope."--Locus
"This looks very like the next major fantasy epic. It has magic and pacing and detail and human involvement, with a certain subtlety of presentation and a grand central vision. Robert Jordan...is a lot of writer!"--Andre Norton
Book Description
n one short decade, Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time has become the bestselling American fantasy series of all time—comparable in depth and scope to J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendary trilogy, The Lord of The Rings. Now, the first two titles in the series, The Eye of the
World and The Great Hunt, are available unabridged on CD.
For centuries traveling gleemen have told the tales of "The Great Hunt of the Horn." Now the horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages.
Rand al'Thor, the farmboy who is thought to be the Dragon Reborn -- the leader long prophesied to save the world, but in the process will destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him -- refuses to accept his fate. But Rand cannot escape his power. For when the horn is stolen along with a dagger from the terrible ruins of Shadar Logoth, Rand is drawn into the hunt. For if he does not, his oldest friend, Matt, will die.
As Rand, Perrin, Egwene and Nynaeve track the horn and dagger they enter a world stranger than time itself. Meanwhile the Dark One is stirring in Shayol Ghul. The Dark One wants the horn. The Dark One wants Rand.
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