Clearly not ALL your friends. ;) I liked it. I actually really liked that the physical fight between Rand and Ishamael was minimized. We should (hopefully) see a much more physical duel between them with swords at the end of the Great Hunt plotline, and this one was definitely a psychological...
The end of the Eye of the World was a clusterf**k guys. As much as we all love the series, the ending of that book was... impossible to adapt. Full of plotlines that never went anywhere (the voice speaking over the battle?) and devices that never appear again (the untainted pool of Saidin?). It...