Sometime back in 2011, I was handed a complete (used!) set of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series from a friend who saw me reading A Song of Ice and Fire. For several years it sat on my office desk, because I got caught up in other writers. Then it sat on my bookshelf for a few years as I got caught up in work and research, before I finally picked up the Eye of the World and decided to read it last fall.
With a TV adaptation proposed to come out sometime in the near future, I figured now was as good a time as any for a post about it.