I think I have almost the opposite reaction. I've been having the same problem with TGS And TOM that I had with Mistborn. I really liked the Mistborn premise but I simply couldn't make myself care about any of the characters, when people died I thought "meh" and kept reading which is not what you want in a book. I now find myself feeling to some degree the same way about his WOT books. While there are still scenes that moved me they all fell a little flat, the only reason I had any emotional investment in them at all is down to the long standing relationship I have with the characters involved through years of reading and re-reading WOT. You could say I was moved in spite of Brandon's writing, not because of it.

There are bits I found funny and laughed out loud at too but excited for the end? Not really. I'll keep reading because I want to know what happens and how it ends, not because I've been drawn into the story and absolutely *have* to turn one more page.

I also read TGS and TOM one after the other and would have to disagree wth your comment there too. the timeline jumping around was very noticeable and not sensible or smooth at all - after hearing of Perrin being in Caemlyn with the Queen we suddenly go to him being mired in the middle of nowhere. And Tam, who was last time we saw him with Rand, is with Perrin. No, wait, he's with Rand. But no, he's with Perrin again. My sister also reads WOT but doesn't visit any fan sites and she found it incredibly confusing as she had no idea about Rand and Egwene's timeline being so far ahead of everyone else, she's chalked it up to bad writing and asked me to just tell her what happens in the next one as she doesn't think she'll be able to follow it!

C xx