The Eye of the World

I really wanted to read this after seeing that there was going to be a show, and then even more so when I saw there was supposed to be accompanying movies to go with it. As much of a fantasy person as I am, I never really had a desire to read it before honestly. Even though most of bookstagram loses it over the series. But like, a 15 book series?! Why

I'm sure my opinion will make a few people disappointed, so I'm sorry for that, but I definitely don't mean for it to be a hot take at all. I started reading the physical book. I have the 30th anniversary edition hardcover, which I think is very nice. At around 300 pages I still wasn't all that drawn into it, and with me not getting through it in September, and wanting to read horror for Halloween, I switched to the audio instead. I figured this way, I'd still finish it, I'd avoid a DNF on something I wanted to know about, and I'd have time to read physical horror. 
300 pages in left me started the audio on chapter 19, so I can't speak to anything before that. The audio is supposed to be a male and female narrator, which I believe people rave about them online...it wasn't that I disliked either of them, but I was just very surprised when they were trading chapters. I guess I figured they'd share voices or something similar, so that threw me off. What I found even weirder though was the fact that the trading off was wildly uneven. I feel like the female narrator had like 5 chapters throughout the entire book? Unless she read everything prior to chapter 19???

Anyway, there is obviously some masterful world building in this novel, but to me it was at the extreme detriment of everything else. Sometimes entire chapters would span something that was only very loosely attached to the entire story to the point where I'd forget where I was? The entire 800 something pages is all build up and then I felt like the climactic fight was maybe 15 minutes long, and very confusing at that? I feel like I also need to talk about the dream chapters. I am never really a fan of dreaming/dream prophesies in the novels I read, but I mean this guy really knows how to beat a dead horse of a trope doesn't he. There's probably 1/8th of the story in dreams where the same thing (almost) happens every time and it doesn't exactly progress anything??

I'm still interested in seeing if the series improves though. 

I've heard that the show will pull from books 2 and 3 as well and I think that's a really good idea cause honestly not much of anything happens in this one.