This whole above argument about Matt "dying" in Rhuidean all depends on what you mean by death? Even if you stop breathing, you are not technically dead. Assuming there's was nothing but suffocation/drowning stopping you from breathing (i.e. no spear through your heart) you can still be revived...
^ This.
Its my major complaint of this book, it all seemed rather abrupt. Oh well.
COuple wise, what I got a HUGE bang out of was Lan's frustration/love with Nynaeve over him raising the Golden Crane or not. I just loved his reactions to when Malkieri and others kept joining him no matter what...
Re: Did the towers of midnight feel more like Jordan than Bo
I felt ToM was more liek Jordan than tGS. Yes, the endning seemed a bit anticlimatic, buit you cant have everything since this is not Jordan writing it.
Cleansing of Saidin.
Rand, several Asha'man, Cadsuane, and several Aes'Sedai tearing up the thousands of trollocs that attacked them at the farm.
Battle of Cairhien, esp. from Matt's point of view.
Rand balefiring Graendal's hideaway and the expressions oh horror on everyone's face as he...
Personally, I loved FoH. Rand and Moraine switch roles in their relationship (Hehe!) and the Cairhein battles made it for me. I also enjoyed the Siuan/Min story arcs, mostly because I liek Siuan. The Elayne/Nynaeve one I liekd as well, but mostly for Thom and Nynaeve. Elayne was mostly just...
EotW: tied for Winternight and the fight at the Eye.
tGH: Arrival of the Heroes of the Horn.
tDR: Battle in the Stone
tSR: Hard to nail one part down, but its mostly watching Rand and Moraine dance around each other, Rand trying to push her away and MOraine trying to get close to control him...