Oh, don't read Robert Jordan. You notice I talked about his books in social terms, not literary terms? There's a reason.

(Okay, the first, oh, six or so? are pretty good. But he's completely lost control of the pace and has started playing games with the fans--hah hah, I know who killed X and you don't, and I'm not going to tell you! I didn't even read the last one, just had Chad spoil it thoroughly for me.)

Anyway, the meme-starting post (heres_luck) points out that people have to decide what "most important" means for themselves, to start. Mine seemed to be social and eye-opening/gateway-drug literary, but a lot of people are talking about prose style and such. It's interesting reading them.