Listened to Eye of the World at work today .. as a narrative it is so much better than the TV series, at least the first half is. Of course it took 11 hours just to get to Shadar Logoth (or Episode 3 in this series)
As to the TV series it really looks to me like they are going to continue skipping whole swaths of the Narrative. To a much greater extent than Game of Thrones did.
So far they skipped Berelain plus Min, Bayle Domon and the Spray. Rand, Matt and Thom's story in Whitebridge seems to have been moved to some random farm. Perrin and Egwene meeting Elyas. Meanwhile they completely changed Logain's story AND how shielding channelers works.
I get the impression they are going to skip Caemlyn and combine that story with Tar Valon somehow. Which would suggest to me skipping the Second Half of Eye and first bit of The Great Hunt. The world also feels much more empty than the one in the Books. Maybe that is a budget decision. I mean making one city that you have to have throughout the series is cheaper than making two, since you wouldn't then need Caemlyn until much later. But 10 million per episode .. smdh.
This stuff is painful on a few levels. First, its cutting out some good parts of the story. Second, are we just going to get a big character dump in Tar Valon? Min, Elayne, Galad, Gawan, Bayle, Loial. Plus all the Aes Sedi?