The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan

So, I have some friends who told me I absolutely MUST read this book series. I've read the first two and it's ok but it seems a bit repetitive and droll for my tastes. It's going somewhere, but not somewhere interesting enough that I could be bothered investing another ten 700 page books into, if you get what I mean?

Has anyone else read this series, what do you think of it? Is it worth investing my time into? Got any recommendations for what I should read instead?

P.S. After reading the first two books I believe I have become adept, nay, an expert at describing Inns and their various Innkeepers. I mean, holy shit, is that all these people do for 12 books? Travel to Inns so that Jordan can spend five pages describing the interior?

>>1
Yeah. I'm glad I read them, though.

Wheel of TIme is fucking horrible, OP. People like it because they're really stupid, or something.

I thought about urging you to read up to and including Shadow Rising, but on second thought the Great Hunt (Eye not so much) is a pretty good indicator of WoT's quality. If you didn't much care for it then I don't see your chances of changing your mind to be, well, not nothing but not very good either.

p.s. I think you were going for dull instead of droll?

The books get a lot worse after the first few, OP. Though I have no idea if the last ones actually pick up again, because I had long dropped that shit by then.

Also, "whatsherface tugged on her braid" could have been the précis for entire chapters if Jordan didn't apparently get paid per word.

I've definitely read worse fantasy, that's for sure. I only bothered reading the first 2 (couldn't get through the third now matter how I tried). The best thing about reading ANYTHING from that series was discovering the MUDs.

/oldschool

>>5
He's got it right. I'm on 7 I think but I've dropped it for now. It' focusing heavily on the women and he makes all of the women very unlikable. If that bitch folds her arms under her breasts or tugs at her braid again I think I'll kill myself.

>>5
>>7

Oh man, that is precisely my biggest complaint with the whole series. I can't fucking stand how he focuses so incessantly on how nearly every single woman in his series is a raging sexist bitch. Also, focusing to an unnecessary extent on various idiosyncrasies gets extremely abrasive after a while.

That aside, I must concur with >>6, I've read much worse fantasy before as well (see The Black Jewels Trilogy). I also, however, think that under the hundreds of pages of frivolous bullshit he's actually got something interesting going there. It's a shame it's buried under hundreds of pages of filler text.

If I didn't have anything better to do than listen to audiobooks while counting sheets of paper at my job, I might seriously consider dropping the series as well.

I rather enjoyed the series, reading some of the books in a day or two lol. Though I definitely noticed the femist faggotry, but then it was somewhat made up for later on when some of the dudes do some badass shit, and just in general are massively more powerful than the dumb bitches.