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?

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