But as the series has gone on, perhaps a lot longer than it should have, I think Robert Jordan has lost his way. The books drag on and on and nothing happens of any importance at all for chapter upon chapter, and sometimes in an entire book!
The other problem I have with Jordans WoT series is that the main characters don't grow. If you read the first book and then the 10th book you'll see that the main characters are still saying the same things they said in the first book and still behaving the same too.
Plus there's no true sense of time passing. I couldn't even begin to speculate on how many years have passed since the events in the first book to the events in the last book!
At the end of book 9 the biggest thing in the world happens, something we, the readers, have been dying for since the first book, its huge, monumental in fact.
I waited with baited breath for book 10, it finally came out and I expected it to pick up where book 9 left off, no such luck. While I haven't read book 10 yet (I wasn't able to get past the long boring prologue) I have talked with several friends who have and it appears as if this great calamitous event in book 9 is barely mentioned in book 10. Good grief.
I had high hopes for this series but have been let down by it.
But please, those of you who love WoT don't take offense at my words, I mean no disrespect.
Matthew
), but Fateke, you're right... I read book 10 a few weeks ago, and it's just what you say. 
I got sucked into these things when The Eye of The World came out, and I've read them all, except for the last one. But the streeeeeeeeeeeeeetching out of a story that should have been at least 5 books shorter has made me decide that I'm going to wait until the last one comes out in paperback, (no more spending $25 on a new hardback copy for this irritated reader) and then read the whole thing again, so I can hopefully remember WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE, and have done with the blasted thing.
