Argh... Jordan started off with a total Tolkein ripoff (small naive people with grumpy wizard and exiled kind being hunted by dark cloaks and flying black dragons, anyone?) and turned some good corners, but I second the previous remark about the terrible portrayal of women. Jordan has no sense of differentiation among his female characters.

Then we have Erikson's Book of the Fallen, a jumble of vastly different character viewpoints with little cohesion, wooden dialogue, giggly evil guys (again in black cloaks), characters who sigh and shrug all the time... with the only salvation being a very well designed and intriguing magic system.

Martin, on the other hand, is God. Complex characters, cohesion, stories to actually relate to and care about, unforseen turns, depths of history and culture... the list goes on and on. Neither Jordan nor Erikson deserve to be on the same bookshelf, heck, not even in the same room as ASOIAF.