The world that Robert Jordan weaves is very different from any other I've ever read about, the book has a great "new" feel to it that excites me. When an individual has read as many fictional books as I have, you think you've seen it all. When a book appears that proves you wrong, it's one of the few times you're happy to be wrong. The Eye Of The World seems to be one of those books, it still has the same need to escape from the villain type of book, but we don't like to talk about that, the nugget that makes The Eye Of The World special is the ideology of “ Wheel of Time”. For starters, the Wheel of Time, often called “The Wheel.” It is the concept that the time you live in happened, and yet it didn't happen. If that doesn't make sense, then it's the idea that time essentially repeats itself, with two exceptions. First, tasks that are too small to influence the true course of the wheel or, second, whether they are ta'veren. An example of the first might be: "should I hit my little brother?" Whether or not they decide to hit him probably won't have any effect on the set...