That's because that is where Brandon Sanderson picked it up and finished them! :D

Well, in the history of Fantasy, there wouldn't be A Song of ice and Fire were it not for the Wheel of Time. It created the 90s Fantasy book. With that said, the middle books drag. A lot! very much like Martin's books. But the first three are really good. However, if your only a casual reader of Fantasy, it might be…

Way to destroy any chance of ever having a decent Wheel of Time adaptation on film. The prologue is important to the story — but, they left out the whole POINT of the prologue: Lews Therin creating/becoming Dragon Mount where thousands of years later Rand is found. Nah…we don't need any of THAT in the story!