Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I don't want to rehash everything everyone else has already written. I have a couple of new things to say, but I just need to vent first. I wanted to love this book. I wanted to want this book to not suck. But it did. The most insulting thing about this entire series boils down to one fact and its implications: Jordan's characters make absolutely no sense in the long run. First of all, if our world had people like these in power, these idiots would have run us all into the ground from lack of communication and intelligent action. Jordan is so caught up in writing political drama/fattening his wallet by stretching out with endless, pointless dialogue that he writes his characters into doing things that would make no sense to any rational creature. Why would Egwene and Rand not communicate better? Why would any number of other characters in this book not comunicate better? The Black Tower and White Tower, the "Shadow" and the "Light"... how the heck can rational people possibly be so utterly clueless and idiotic as to know so little about their enemies/allies? How could an institution like the White Tower exist with the "Black Ajah" within it, and nothing having been done for three thousand years until some 18 year girl takes over and stuff just miraculously starts to happen? We would all be doomed if these kind of idiots had hold of our political and social institutions. They make idiotic decisions on half-information when they could simply step into a black hole, travel to ***anywhere in the world***, and simply ask someone what happened, in cases too numerous to cite. Furthermore, Jordan stabs his own characters in the back by writing them into making idiotic decisions, not making the right decisions, and just doing stupid, idiotic things. The travesty is that instead of staying true to the nature of any of the characters, and thus providing a truly masterful painting of a world, he uses his characters in ways that contradict their respective natures as he has written them. Not only does this point to the stupidity and lack of writing skill on Jordan's behalf, the reader (and the characters themselves, it they were real) would lose all respect for these people. This is the worst case I have ever read of an author ***betraying his own characters***. For these two reasons, any reader who does not feel utterly scandalized and patronized should just go soak his/her head in some icewater. I was angry that Robert Jordan patronized me, and almost even angrier that he insults his own characters by writing them into irrational and otherwise just plain stupid actions in order to further a plot that, as many of the previous reviewers have already written, is driving even his most avid readers (read: self, formally) into fits of frothy-mouthed insanity. If you're not angry, if you don't want to punch RJ in the face and demand your 20-30$ back for the last 3 entirely wasteful books, then you should never trust your taste in literature ever again. Go read some Don DeLillo, or Truman Capote, or even Maxim magazine. You will learn more about human nature and writing than you could ever possibly hope to learn by reading this series to its conclusion in what looks to be 30 years and 18 books.