I was forced through the first three, which i thought were great, and now i've stopped for the moment...a LONG moment...for a rest of his nonsense.
I have determined a formula for the series i think may need some revision and i dont mind if you help.
1. All characters begin in last location of previous book. All then note that they must "all" go to point D or be accidently led there by Rand's influence.
2. Haphazardly stumble around points A-C without accomplishing anything but splitting the group into three new, equally boring groups.
3. Now with one group each in points A, B, and C, they all decide that they "should" go to point D after all.
4. After much boring, useless detail and character flaws mentioned in their own heads, they do go to point D.
5. Point D is the battlefield of some climatic event near the end of the book to get you excited about getting the next one and reading it through.
6. You come to the realization of this pattern and stop reading, for the series could have ended nicely after book three.
7. Kick friend who introduced you to books.
8. Find Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, and have a good read.
The last few were for humor, but the rest were nearly intelligent. I didnt like how each character was afraid of their own abilities, and unconfident, regardless of the situation.
Jordan spent a lot of time telling the reader that the characters needed to be somewhere, only for four chapters of useless running around was complete for everyone to know where to go and when. I wish they could be more like a D&D session, the DM explains something while another character was not present, but the player was. When the character returns, we "tell him what happened" as though he had been there the whole time.