Lord Mhoram
Hero
Yup, extremely discouraging. I stopped reading after the second installment since it had written Wheel-of-Time-Syndrome all over it.
I wished I hadn't read any book, then I might have enjoyed the TV show more.
I'll go back reading the books after the whole series is done (or not at all).
I stopped about halfway through the second book myself. Read it when the series is done. Did that with Sword of Truth, same thing with Wheel of Time.