re: #73 William Lewis
OTOH, I found the The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant quite a bit more interesting (if scuzzy in parts) than wheel of time so a classic case of mileage varying.
Covenant is the quintessential anti-hero. His wife let him and his Hansen’s disease made him even more bitter. But he does learn and becomes a tad less assholish. It’s not a big bar to say ‘at least he didn’t rape his daughter’ as he did to her mother, but he didn’t.