The Wheel of Time was the first fantasy series after LotR for me. I read it up to book 8 The Path of Daggers (didn't like the last one but enjoyed the first 7 a lot). Then there were no more books in the series and I am waiting now for the last one to come out. That's when I have decided never again to start reading a series that has not been finished.
The Sword of Truth - I am going to give it a try...but the incredible huge number of negative opinions about it on fantasy forums do not make me very optimistic. I think the most famous examples are when a protagonist kicks a 7 years old girl and breaks her jaw and he doesn't feel bad about it and another is that there is only black and white, nothing in between (life is different)...but maybe I am confusing it with something else
