The Wheel of Time discussion

Like many people I became so irritated by Jordan's WoT series that I just stopped reading it. The pages and pages about smoothing velvet dresses, the entire chapters during which someone... walked down a corridor, the appalling depiction of male/female relationships (every woman views every man as a hapless idiot who needs to be taken in hand, every man views every woman as an interfering harridan), you know the score. If only he had had an editor who wasn't his wife and who could have given him a slap and told him to pull himself together...

I think I finished with one or two of Jordan's own books left (from memory I had just read two entire books during which a single day had elapsed and I was just so cynical about him dragging it out that I walked away) and that would also leave all of Brandon Sanderson's books too.

So, my question is, now that the series has been complete for a good long while, is it worth returning to and completing? Did it get better? Or did all of the issues I mentioned above carry on as before? The fact that Sanderson took Jordan's notes for the last book and turned it into three books worries me, for example. I don't want to have to wade through another three page description of how someone's shawl drapes across their dress just to get to the end of a series but if the series genuinely gets better I might give it a chance.

Of course, what you would really want is a re-edited version to bring the whole lot down to six books...

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How far did you get before? It drags a bit, but the story does move forward, and once Sanderson takes over it becomes beautiful once again. So smooth your dress, tug on your braids a bit, cross your arms under your breasts and give it another go.

people who whine about details need to stick to comic books