I have to say I find it rather amusing when people complain about how WoT women moan about men and consider them inferior. Makes me think: what sort of women do you know in real life?! In my experience, if you get a group of women together they will nearly always moan about men at some point in the conversation (I'm sure the same applies in reverse), and women do generally consider men to be less sophisticated/emotionally developed/evolved/complex. Mind you, maybe in the real world we don't voice these opinions quite so often in front of men as the WoT females do.

Amen, brother. The WoT women are just a reflection of women I'm the real world. If women in this world had a much power as the do in Randland would they act as well as they do there?

Alongside Breasts, is the other randland champion: BOSOM, whether be it huge, impressive etc...

And cleavage is also a close contender.

 

RJ had some serious issues with Oedipe's complex.

I agree 100%. RJ found it mandatory to describe a really nice rack. So if he didn't mention the lung warts you could assume they were Appalachians instead of Rockies.

I have to say I can't remember what happened in which book. One thing I do remember is somewhere after the 5th or 6th book RJ started putting the arc of the series over the plot arc in the books. He seemed to give up on having the individual books stand as individual books and he was more worried about the over archs in the stories in the series.

There are so many independent story lines going on if your favorite character doesn't get many pages you simply don't enjoy the books.

I have enjoyed almost every character and story line so I have enjoyed all of the books. Especially on the rereads. I never saw women sitting around doing nothing. I saw characters building relationships and making significant plans that are important in the future.

Even if I didn't like any of books 7 through 11 I think they would be worth reading just to get to tGS, it is worth every page of the series leading up to it! And a lot of how I feel about it has to do with the foundation Egween laid from Salidar on to her epic arc in tGS!

Keep reading it is all worth it. Much like the last 400 pages of BS's, the Way of Kings, makes reading the first 600 worth it!