Hi!

I'm joining the discussion a bit late... Hope I haven't missed too much already.

> And here is yet another, even though it appears that nobody is reading them except maybe Sam :-)

I'm quite interested in them! I gave up halfway through book 3 but I still would like to know if there is any progress to come later on (concerning the plot, I mean).

An interesting (to me, at least) fact is that here in Finland the publishers really have decided to take money off the fans. They have divided every volume in two and publish them separately. ok, maybe it has something to do with not having to wait for the translations so long... (they really are not worth the wait, the translations mainly suck).

I just thought to ask if anyone has noticed the similarities between WOT and Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series? I think there are quite a few of them, e.g. the mystical Sisterhood devoted to teaching young sorceresses (or wizards, in Goodkind's case) and evil women with collars and a taste for sadism. Since I haven't read Jordan more I can't say if there are any more in later books.

anyway, I must say I enjoyed Goodkind more (just finished book 4), although I fear he too will start to lose it sooner or later (any series with more than four books has a bit of a money-talks-look)