The Wheel of Time series

[COLOR="#cc8899"]Seeing as we lack a Literature/Books/etc subforum.

I'm curious if anyone else has read them, favorite characters, villains, etc. I'm about 3/4 through book 12 and

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quite pissed that Rand is STILL a colossal douchebag

. I mean, I'm glad that the pace of the books is picking up, especially after several books of nothing really happening, but it's rather frustrating that certain characters appear to be showing little/no positive development (if anything, the opposite is happening).

At least Mat's still awesome. And

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there are hints that Moiraine will resurface soon!

. I'm also a bit sad that

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Semirhage and

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Graendal

went down so quickly - both of their deaths were extremely anti-climatic and happened way too quickly for my tastes. [/COLOR]