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Since I see other book threads figured I'd ask everyone's opinion on the Wheel of Time series or whatever it's called. Yeah, I'm operating on two hours of sleep and now at work. FF addiction again. Oh well. I just started the series and I'm on the second book. Damn they are long as can be but pretty good. At this point Rand is getting on my nerves a bit but it's a pretty good story. I'm sure others have deeper opinions that have read it more and are more awake then I am.

It seemed very bloated.. I would have liked to emerce myself in them but it was just to much , I felt smothered..... and this caoming from an AVID Tolkien fan.

maybe I'm just pissed I barely have any time for such things anymore.

First 4 books are amongst the best fantasy fiction in the last 20 years.

Books 5-7 are mediocre and lose direction and a sence of atmosphere as you bounce between the 10-20 'Main' people in the book getting more and mor disillusioned with the storyline or lack there off.
It's a slow meandering decent into mediocraty

Books 8-10 are total and utter drivel that should be ripped up and re written by the author who wrote the first 4 books. I can only cope with one chapter of the lead female char deciding what dress too where before my brain begins to seep from my ears.

All in all they should have concluded it by book 5 and wrote a Prequal series based around Lews Therin and the corruption of the forsaken.