I like them, I've just finished listening to the fifth one. The world building is really cool although the whole gender essentialism is kind of shitty. I don't like Jordan's writing style, and I know that I would've dropped the series one book ago if I were reading rather than listening to them. There's only so many instances of characters saying "men are impossible to understand" and "women are impossible to understand" that I'm willing to read without my eyeballs rolling permanently into their sockets.
The Kramer/Reading audiobooks are my gold standard for audiobook narration, though. Their reading is one of the reasons why I enjoy listening to the series.
I read the majority of the series in high school but I remember some of them just dragging for seemingly forever where it's basically a period piece of people going over to each others houses and talking about the weather. The few books that were written by Brandon Sanderson were fine, I feel like he was constrained by Jordan's major plot points that he had finished before he died because it was a little dumb, and there was so much material he ended up having to split what was only supposed to be the last book into three.
I like them, I've just finished listening to the fifth one. The world building is really cool although the whole gender essentialism is kind of shitty. I don't like Jordan's writing style, and I know that I would've dropped the series one book ago if I were reading rather than listening to them. There's only so many instances of characters saying "men are impossible to understand" and "women are impossible to understand" that I'm willing to read without my eyeballs rolling permanently into their sockets.
The Kramer/Reading audiobooks are my gold standard for audiobook narration, though. Their reading is one of the reasons why I enjoy listening to the series.
I read the majority of the series in high school but I remember some of them just dragging for seemingly forever where it's basically a period piece of people going over to each others houses and talking about the weather. The few books that were written by Brandon Sanderson were fine, I feel like he was constrained by Jordan's major plot points that he had finished before he died because it was a little dumb, and there was so much material he ended up having to split what was only supposed to be the last book into three.