@Sito, I'm afraid in wheel of time pretty much everyone schemes against everybody else, the bad guys spend more time trying to out do each than they do working against the good guyss (all accept for one bad guy who is actually compitant and quite awesome though you won't find out about that for a looooong! time).
Even married couples pretty much spend their entire time scheming against each other and half the time I wanted to bang several characters heads together and say "for goodness sake! can you just talk! to each other?"
I'll say the series keeps moving well though until Lord of chaos in book six when things start to slow down, and even Lord of chaos has one pretty good plotline. Fortunately though in WoT persistance does get rewarded since while there is definitely a mid series slump things start picking up again and when you hit the last third of the series in books 11-14 you have awesome all the way through. Its just a shame you have to wade through so much getting there.
Btw Sito, you might want to check out This series on Tor.com which features a guy who's reading WoT for the first time and writing his thoughts and impressions. My lady and I are enjoying it.
There is also Lee butler's very awesome Wheel of time reread found here though manifestly that covers the entire series so is spoilerific if this is your first time through, still its chapterised so you should be okay.
I enjoy Lee butler's stuff, I don't always agree with her but I find her writing entertaining and she argues well for her opinions even if I think she's dead wrong .
Then again my lady is a giant WoT fan and is reading the series again rather casually herself so we've had a lot of WoT related arguements, albeit our last huge fantasy was Oathbringer as I said.
Anyway at the moment I'm reading conny willis's to say nothing of the dog. This is the sequel to her time travel story doomsday book which I reviewed for fantasybookreview.co.uk. its a very different story being more of a nutty comedy than a tragedy, but definitely lots of fun for all that.
I've also been playing a bit of casual rebuild the universe which is surprisingly relaxing .
The major thing I did was go to a local poetry reading. This was fun but I was a bit narked that I couldn't read any of my own poetry. I had previously recorded a couple onto my victor stream, but it wouldn't be loud enough to cover the room, and its damnably difficult to speak from a dramatic recording.
This is one area where owning a braille embosser, or even a braille display might come in handy, though I have been able to read aloud with a screen reader before provided I prepare the text first into line sized chunks.
the chap is doing another reading on Friday since its a local poetry festival so I'll see about preparing something for then, either take some external speakers for my victor and play one of my recordings, or take a laptop with a prepared script I can have a bash at reading.
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)