haven't read them, almost certainly won't, despite looking for new authors with a 1000-page a week habit when I am in Florida. have read amazon reviews on most out the wheel of time books of curiousity recently...first few very popular, by the 9th or tenth you have page after page of 1-star reviews of fans screaming about unending clothing descriptions, books where no major plot events take place, etc. I don't mean a few angry reviews, but more like a majority on books with hundreds of reviews.
like this one, which got 1 and a half stars!
http://www.amazon.com/Crossroads-Twilight-Wheel-Time-Book/dp/B000FFJRI6/sr=8-7/qid=1172559881/ref=pd_bbs_sr_7/102-2969324-1944143?ie=UTF8&s=books
He must be selling a lot of books to get that many reviews, though.
At some point in the last 10 years or so the publishing business (at least for sci-fi/fantasy) changed and authors who had previously submitted 3-400 page standalone or series books started putting out 600+ page unending series. I guess the economics must work at that end for them but at a quality level some authors who used to produce some original stories are putting out thousand+ pages of filler and redundant descriptions a year. The sad thing is the probably make a lot more than they would with actual stories that begin and end in a single book. jordan's wheel of time is often referred to as the archetype of this practice.
This is true up until the last book where he finally got back to moving the plot along and tying up many of the story threads. Even so, it's worth the pain IMHO.