SevenofEleven, do not buy the books. You'll get frustrated with Jordan's inability to conclude anything. He stretches the page count like a chewing gum. There is a good reason why people coined the term "extruded fantasy product" for those books. Incidentally, the fans of the books usually behave like some religious people: you can't say anything bad about the books, regardless of how well founded such a remark is.

-- erlik