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   Bobbie Sellers to Robert Woodward   
   Re: I am annoyed   
   23 Jan 26 11:53:34   
   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 1/22/26 22:22, Robert Woodward wrote:   
   > In article <10kuahc$3c8ij$1@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> As I have mentioned before, I listen to novels via Audible when I am on   
   >> my (somewhat) daily walks or doing my job as an organlegger. I saw one   
   >> by Dean Koontz that looked interesting and got it, "Fear Nothing"   
   >> (1998). I liked it, although the writing style of the narrator I find to   
   >> be a bit off-putting. The narrator is fond of lists that have too many   
   >> entries and goes off on too much expository (I think that might be the   
   >> right word) prose at times, but I like the story overall. It does make   
   >> the miles go by faster, both walking and driving.   
   >>   
   >> The next book in the series is "Seize the Night" (1999) and I downloaded   
   >> that one and it too was good.   
   >>   
   >> I didn't realize the books had been published that far back, but that   
   >> was not really an issue. I went to get the next in the series, "Ride the   
   >> Storm) and IT HASN'T BEEN FINISHED YET! Or maybe even started!   
   >>   
   >> Who does he think he is, George R.R. Martin? I need closure, damn it!   
   >   
   > I might form a list of unfinished series. The current leader is the   
   > Anthony Villiers series by Alexei Panshin. Three books (of 8? promised)   
   > published in 1968-1969, 4th promised at the end of the 3rd. No more   
   > books appeared and Panshin died over 3 years ago.   
   >   
      
   		I too am annoyed by the incompletion of the Villiers series which I   
   and my lover of the time were equally entranced by.  It was one of the most   
   well-written books of its time.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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