From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 1/23/26 09:04, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:06:19 -0800, 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!   
   >>   
   >> Fortunately, I am working my way through the Lincoln Lawyer series so I   
   >> am not stuck for something new for a few days.   
   >   
   > When I was younger, and buying at bookstores, I made it a rule to   
   > always get the /entire/ series, with each volume in the same edition   
   > (HB, TPB, MMPB) or not at all. This has avoided a lot of annoyance   
   > over the years.   
   >   
   > One reason was when I checked out the first volume of a three-volume   
   > French novel about Jesuits scheming to control the inheritance of two   
   > little girls, only to find the other volumes weren't available. The   
   > rule for libraries, then, is to make sure they at least /have/ each   
   > volume in their collection.   
      
   	The SF Public Library makes good attemts as see my October Man review   
   spending 10 X what they should for a special signed edition but people steal   
   books and die at home with checked out books.  So even if a Library has   
   bought   
   the full run of a series it may not be able to keep it.   
   >   
   > This has been relaxed a bit -- I bought the first several Harry Potter   
   > books and then bought the others as they came out -- and my current   
   > pattern of reading (on Kindle) an author's complete output (if   
   > possible) is a deliberate relaxation of it.   
   >   
   > BTW, don't get steamed up over "French" "Jesuits" and "little girls".   
   > The book is about legal and related machinations to control the vast   
   > fortune their parents' left them. Apparently, in whatever past century   
   > this was written, the French still had standards for what could be   
   > printed.   
      
   	Well embezzlement on the part of clericals would not have been   
   approved of in print a few generations earlier.  Now-a-days sexual abuse   
   by clericals in the course of embezzlement would be demanded by   
   some presses. Scandalatum Magnum! sells to some groups.  Some   
   who will be outraged publically by the disclosures.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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