It gets better again after that, and once you get to the Brandon Sanderson books, it's really the highlight of the series. But yeah, I ended up putting down book 10 for a long time as well.
I forget exactly which one, but one of the books in that stretch has virtually nothing at all happen until the last couple of pages. As boring as it was to get through that, looking back I marvel at Jordan's ability to write that many coherent pages without, even accidentally, moving the plot forwards one single bit.
Almost? I got 2 chapters into book 10 and realized that I could just no longer bring myself to give even half a damn anymore.
Too. Many. Fucking. Characters. I swear to Christ it felt like each book just doubled the amount of characters I was expected to keep track of.
EDIT: Replied to the wrong comment before. Sorry Jack.
It gets better again after that, and once you get to the Brandon Sanderson books, it's really the highlight of the series. But yeah, I ended up putting down book 10 for a long time as well.
I forget exactly which one, but one of the books in that stretch has virtually nothing at all happen until the last couple of pages. As boring as it was to get through that, looking back I marvel at Jordan's ability to write that many coherent pages without, even accidentally, moving the plot forwards one single bit.