I gave up on it around book four or five.
I don't like travelogue fantasy, so Robert Jordan's transparent attempt to drag me, the reader, all around every last nook and cranny of his fabulously detailed world fell flat.

I'm sure there might have been an interesting story somewhere in there, had anyone bothered to suggest to Mr. Jordan that he could benefit from the services of an editor.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 20:28, 1 reply)

To be fair
I think he has dragged it out quite a bit. Apparently he initially wanted to do 6 books which might have made for a faster paced plot.

Oh well, he's dead now so he can't do anything about it.
(Rubber Fish is waiting, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 20:34, closed)

Here is every Robert Jordan book:

(1) Introduce plot and characters
(2) Several hundred pages of entertaining dialogue and well-written ambling about
(3) Ignore (2), teleport to main evil fellow, and kill same (often with some inexplicably gained new power)

I enjoyed his books, on the whole, as he was a very capable author. But the jarring point at which he obviously thought 'fuck, got to wrap this up, I'll give myself twenty pages' annoyed me every time.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 21:27, closed)