Quote Originally Posted by Palanan View Post
I remember those at my local bookstore...about 1994, yes?

I eagerly took one home, read the first chapter, brought it back the next day. Thus ended my dalliance with that series.
I found it best to skip the first (prologue) chapter. The biggest problem with WoT in the earliest books is Jordan's near-complete refusal to OOC infodump, leaving the reader ignorant as to what things actually mean. This isn't so bad after the prologue, as the main viewpoint characters are backwoods hicks who don't really have much of a clue anyway, so they have to be told most things and have their incorrect beliefs corrected anyway. The prologue, however, consists of the leaders of the two sides in the most destructive war in history, who also happen to be the most powerful wizards in history, speaking of things without explanation that the reader has no possible way to understand at this point (even consulting the glossary will be of very little help, as the terms there are absent most of their context.)