Wheel of Time

I've never read any of these before. Recently I tried reading the 10th book, just to see if it might be worth getting all the other ones. I have 9 and 10. I made it about 75 pages into the book and decided I couldn't take any more. It was extremely bogged down is crap gossip and hundreds of secret rivalries between a bunch of extremely ninny "sisters" and their range of colours. It was like trying to read terrible LOTR fanfiction of a 65 year old women.

I can't even describe it correctly. Boring as hell is a good start I think.

So, is the entire series like this or did the author simply get worse and more convoluted with each new book until his death?