"It's his eyes, Roland thought. They were wide and terrible, the eyes of a dragon in human form" - Roland seeing the Crimson King for the first time.
"When the King comes and the Tower falls, sai, all such pretty things as yours will be broken. Then there will be darkness and nothing but the howl of Discordia and the cries of the can toi" - From Song of Susannah
Depends on what you mean by long and never forget I am from Hungary and we got the books many years later you had got them. Just to tell you one example the last book hasn't been published yet here in Hungary so who can't speak English has so chance to know the end. (Anyway they are working on it..)
When I finished WaG I was about 12... or maybe less and I was about 19 when I could hold WoC in my hands.
Roland would have understood.