Wheel of Time Failure

I've finally given up on rereading the whole wheel of time series. I managed to make it to the eighth book, Path of Daggers, which put me at 2.25 million words into the series before I completely ran out of steam. My brother reminded me, however, that I stopped at a good point -- the series itself starts to get slow in Path of Daggers, with apparently next to no real movement for the next four books. Lots of events, I'm sure, since the series has to be making progress towards its climax in book fourteen or fifteen. Maybe someday I'll make more progress, too.