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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tinker Gnome" data-source="post: 4765600" data-attributes="member: 15608">Well, I am currently reading the Prequel New Spring in the WoT series. On the main book series I am on Winter's Heart. I am enjoying the series, but like a lot of people I feel that it gets bogged down in descriptions of clothing and gestures the characters make. I mean, I know there IS a good story in there somewhere, it just gets hidden at times. The amount of plots going on at once, some of which are kind of boring also make the series difficult to read.I feel that Jordan should have put more time into describing the setting at times, I find I know what the characters look like, but I am left wondering exactly what kind of environment they are in beyond just a City or a Forest. I also feel that a lot of the books feel sort of drab and gray, and lacking in something. I find that the first four or so books had much more description of the enviornment. I think things went sort of downhill for enviornment description once they got into the Aiel Waste.The characters are great for the most part. I do not really like Rand though, but Mat and Perrin are two of my favortie characters in Fantasy Literature. I find the Aiel in general insufferable in their smug sense of superiority to everyone. This could just be certain characters though, as I find I like the character of Gaul. Overall, I like the world and the characters, I just wish that Jordan had cut out a lot of the unecessary descriptions of clothing and all of the unecessary plots. I imagine 400 pages(I am basing this off of the paperback versions, I know that the hardcovers have a smaller page count due to being bigger) could be taken off of each book and there would still be a good story there.</blockquote>

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