On my first read-through, I dropped off halfway through Path of Daggers. I just lost interest. Once the Sanderson trilogy was properly announced, I decided I'd pick it back up, but since it had been years, I began at the start again, and subsequently read through the whole series from start to finish. When the TV show started, I picked up Eye of the World again, and I've been slowly working through my third read-through since, with some other books sprinkled in between, for a bit of variety. I've just recently started Winter's Heart. I'm deep in the "slog" now, but because I know where the story is heading, I'm pretty confident I can push through. Compared to the nothing-burger that was Path of Daggers, I've actually found the opening chapters of Winter's Heart pretty good so far. I think my favourite book in the series is The Great Hunt. I was just kept so engaged in every plot line in that book. I also really enjoy the first one, Eye of the World. Shadow Rising has some amazing stand-out moments, and definitely feels like the soft-launch of the series' Phase Two. Fires of Heaven, Lord of Chaos and Crown of Swords all have some big and important scenes, but a loooooot of filler as well. That's the point in the story where I start getting a bit bored. I seem to remember really enjoying Sanderson's first book, The Gathering Storm. I'm looking forward to reading that one again.

I'm there as well. I started a series re-read when Season 1 of the show first aired, and I'm now ALMOST finished with Path of Daggers. And yeah. It's rough. Like, it's so boring. Barely anything happens at all. It's almost entirely people just standing around either talking, or thinking about what the other characters are wearing or what expressions they have on their faces. If the TV show ever reached this part of the story, I feel like they could completely remove this book, and nothing of consequence would be lost. Which is a shame, because this is the book I got signed by Robert Jordan. So it's a bit special to me in that regard. 😉 But having Books 5, 6 and 7 get progressively slower, and then being hit with this one, where nothing really happens... It's a slog all right.

I had the same thoughts. In my imagination, the White Tower was floor-to-ceiling shiny white marble. In the show it's just dingy grey stone.