So far, 10. The most recent one is called Crossroads of Twilight. And who knows how long he'll drag it out. I'm hoping for a quick, clean ending in book 11. Come on, no series can hold out longer than that, can it? But I still want to know how it ends, and if he can really pull these threads together--the ones I care about, at least, which he seems to have lost interest in (what's going on with Moiraine? etc).
I did like Jordan's style of writing, to begin with. I guess it's the same with any series, though--what's fresh and inventive in the first book is stale in later books. He seems to be creating one mega-woman character and one mega-man character, slapping them all down on the page, and making minor changes in appearance, so that they're all the same at the end of the series, where they were different people at the beginning--they're all suspicious, they won't TALK TO EACH OTHER.
How much easier would all their lives be if they simply decided to have a correlation meeting once a week? "So, Egwene, how's the siege going?" "Great, Rand, how's that cleansing of saidin going?" etc. Unity these characters ain't got. It occurs to me that the Forsaken were more organized in earlier books, as far as communication goes, than the good guys are in latter books.
And why does it even matter to me?
<sigh>
I guess I just have to know how it ends, even if I'm frustrated. It's my own fault.
