The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time' (Wheel of Time) | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Jordan
Creators: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Category: Book
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Rating:  335 reviews
Sales Rank: 62898
Format: Audiobook, Cd, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 22
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.3 x 2.7
ISBN: 1593974337
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781593974336
ASIN: 1593974337
Publication Date: May 1, 2004
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DIVThe 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. For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. So many tales about each of th Hunters, and so many Hunters to tell of...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. And it is stolen.BR/DIV
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 Favorite book in the WOT series November 15, 2008
Joseph Cheverie (San Diego, CA USA)
My favorite used to be Dragon Reborn (Book 3), but after a recent re-read of the series the Great Hunt has replaced it. There are so many outstanding moments in this book: raid at Fal Dara, Rand encountering a Forsaken (and being trapped in an alternate world temporarily). There are several great emotionally-charged scenes: Thom's scenes in Cairhien, the alternate realities with the portal stones, Egwene with the Seanchan, Mat realizing his destiny...and my favorite-the redemption of Ingtar. What a tremendous book this was, how this wasn't my favorite before is beyond me!
Compelling sequel to the "Eye of the World" October 26, 2008
Eric S. Kim (Southern California)
I'm not going to give much on the plot, since you'll have to read the first book in order understand "The Great Hunt." But I will tell you that this is a great, if not excellent, sequel to the first book in "The Wheel of Time." Like the original, this book goes far into detail with locations, objects, and especially characters. There is no "less is more" approach here; the excessive details really work here. br / br /Then, there are the characters. There are so many diverse people here: people have different pilosophies, different motives, different emotions about important things, etc. There are those you will love (Rand al'Thor, Egwene al'Vere, Loial, Hurin, Siuan Sanche), those you love to hate (Ba'alzamon, Padan Fain, the Seanchan), and those you will have mixed feelings about (I know Ingtar tries to do good, but his emotions are WAY too forced). br / br /And who can forget the many locations? There are hundreds of cities and forests and mountains, and I doubt that we'll dwelve into all of them when "A Memory of Light" is published. br / br /The way everything intertwines, it's all brilliantly organized. The sub-plot involving the Great Hunt of the Horn, for example, does well with the sub-plot involving the many Ajahs of the Aes Sedai. br / br /In conclusion, "The Great Hunt" won't do wel with those who haven't read the first book (read "The Eye of the World" if you want to read overly complex The Wheel of Time series). I give this book an A-.
Great book October 20, 2008
Flavio G. Mercante
Even though it seems a bit boring in the middle, the book does get you excited with the introduction of new characters, the explanation of some of the things mentioned in the previous novel (The Eye of the World), and also the addition of new elements, what makes it really thrilling! It gets really fast-paced and even more exciting towards the end. I'll leave that for readers.
 Great Book and Series! October 13, 2008
Christopher M. Caro (Frederick, MD)
This is book number 2 of the series. It's great story! Easy to read and follow!
A significant improvement over the first book September 26, 2008
A. Whitehead (Colchester, Essex United Kingdom)
The Great Hunt is the second volume in Robert Jordan's gigantic, rainforest-devastating Wheel of Time series. It was originally published in late 1990 and like the first volume, The Eye of the World, was an immediate big seller. br / br /The story picks up a month or so after The Eye of the World. Rand al'Thor has discovered he can channel the One Power and thus is doomed to go insane and die, wreaking terrible destruction at the same time. Normally it would be the responsibility of the Aes Sedai sisterhood to 'gentle' him, remove his ability to channel, but Rand's Aes Sedai mentor, Moiraine, and the head of the sisterhood, Siuan Sanche, believe that he is the Dragon Reborn, the long-prophesied saviour who will defeat the Dark One at the Last Battle. As such, they have no choice but to let him go free. When the twisted, insane Padan Fain steals the legendary Horn of Valere and the cursed dagger from Shadar Logoth upon which the life of Rand's friend Mat depends, a band of hunters are assembled to track Fain down and reclaim the dagger. Meanwhile, Egwene and Nynaeve travel to Tar Valon to begin their training as Aes Sedai, but find danger lurking even within the walls of the White Tower. In the far west, on Toman Head, rumours speak of the arrival of strangers who apparently use the One Power in battle and use savage beasts in combat, strangers who will not rest until all the lands are under their control...again. br / br /The Great Hunt sees a notable widening of the scope of the world seen in the first book. Whilst the first novel perhaps veered too close to Lord of the Rings' characters and structure to be entirely comfortable, the sequel takes off in a completely different direction. Whilst the series' slightly irritating tendency to be obsessed with 'plot coupons' gets its start here, it does give the book a classical quest structure and deals with the parallel timelines as the core group from the first book gets split up and we follow them separately until their reunion at the end. Jordan also introduces a whole new threat in the form of the Seanchan, a powerful empire ruling a continent beyond the western ocean who now want to reclaim the homeland of their founder (Artur Hawkwing's son). This out-of-left-field threat does an excellent job of shaking things up, whilst the suspicious timing (the Seanchan invasion occurs at the same time the forces of the Shadow are gaining strength in the world) is later revealed as deliberate. The characters are deepened and made more interesting, particularly Rand and Perrin who are shown to grow and change as a result of the revelations they have discovered and the things they have suffered in the first novel. However, we also get to see the Dumb Aes Sedai plot trope get the first of many wearying outings, as Nynaeve, Elayne and Egwene get led into a trap which couldn't be any more painfully obvious. Only their relative youth and naivete makes it convincing in this book; the fact that Elayne is still falling for these things as late as Book 11 is rather more dubious. br / br /The Great Hunt (****) is a notable improvement on the first book, taking the world, story and characters in refreshing and interesting new directions. Jordan's mastery of his enormous narrative is evident here, and even a certain economy (not a word normally associated with the verbose Jordan) of plotting can be detected as some major storylines are rattled through in just a few pages (the Seanchan themselves, surprisingly, don't appear until the book is more than halfway done). The novel is published by Orbit in the UK and Tor in the USA, and is followed by The Dragon Reborn.
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