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   Ted Nolan    
   Re: I am annoyed   
   23 Jan 26 14:30:22   
   
   From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article ,   
   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.   
   >   
      
   Depending on what you mean by "leader", I would say Burroughs   
   _Beyond the Farthest Star_ series might top that.   
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