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Kenny the Kansan

Finbar_Saunders 🚫

I have just finished listening to my T2S app reading this 4-book series to me on my commute. I'm fairly sure it was over 40 hours of a saga.

I recommend the whole thing but I have to warn that it does concern itself with minutiae and that might not be everyone's cup of tea.

The plot takes a turn about halfway through book four and I can't say what turn that is because it is essentially the whole raison d'etre for the epic.
What blew me away was the way the author: Openbook, could write first-person and still have the character suprise himself.
The dialog between everyone was at times heartbreaking and I still feel emotionally drained when I think about how the women who love Kenny must have struggled to cope through his absence.

I have no idea if there were many typos or homophones because it was being read to me.

I really enjoyed (masochistically) the story.

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helmut_meukel 🚫

@Finbar_Saunders

Hmm,
I just read the description of the (four book) series in the provided link: "A trilogy about a young orphan boy..."

The series described as Trilogy and looking at the posting dates it seems to me book four was originally not planned, so your conclusion

The plot takes a turn about halfway through book four and I can't say what turn that is because it is essentially the whole raison d'etre for the epic.

don't hold.

HM.

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awnlee jawking 🚫
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@helmut_meukel

trilogy

The term 'trilogy' seems to be taken lightly these days. There's the 'Dune' trilogy, the 'Foundation' trilogy, the 'Millennium' trilogy ...

AJ

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@awnlee jawking

trilogy

"A series of 2 books = Duology

A series of 3 books = Trilogy

A series of 4 books = Tetralogy

A series of 5 books = Pentalogy

A series of 6 books = Hexology

A series of 7 books = Heptalogy

A series of 8 books = Octology

A series of 9 books = Ennealogy

A series of 10 books = Decology

A series of 11 books = Undecology

A series of 12 books = Dodecology

A series of 13 books = Tridecology

A series of 14 books = Tetradecology

A series of 15 books = Pentadecology

A series of 16 books = Hexadecology

A series of 17 books = Heptadecology

A series of 18 books = Octodecology

A series of 19 books = Nonodecology

A series of 20 books = Icosology

I wasn't able to find any terms for describing a series with more than 20 books"

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Keet 🚫

@richardshagrin

I wasn't able to find any terms for describing a series with more than 20 books"

Multuology 😁

AmigaClone 🚫

@richardshagrin

I wasn't able to find any terms for describing a series with more than 20 books"

I have seen a longer list with names of polygons with n number of sides. The prefix would be the same.

awnlee jawking 🚫
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@richardshagrin

I wasn't able to find any terms for describing a series with more than 20 books

Ask God.

He put 66 books in the Christian Bible, therefore He must have had a name for a series with that many books ;-)

ETA: Hexahexacontology?

AJ

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awnlee jawking 🚫

@awnlee jawking

ETA: Hexahexacontology?

Or, bearing in mind the nature of SOL, sexasexacuntology ;-)

AJ

Dominions Son 🚫

@richardshagrin

I wasn't able to find any terms for describing a series with more than 20 books"

Series is a perfectly good word.

samuelmichaels 🚫

@richardshagrin

I wasn't able to find any terms for describing a series with more than 20 books"

Icosimonology
Icosidyalogy
Icositrialogy
Icositetralogy
etc.

helmut_meukel 🚫

@awnlee jawking

the 'Foundation' trilogy

Asimov's Foundation was a trilogy for thirty years. He finally wrote two prequels and two sequels, with references to events in his Robot and Empire series

You can argue the foundation isn't a trilogy because the three "books" are rather collections of short stories and novellas. But back then very few SF stories were published as books, instead they went to pulp magazines, some officially serialized, others as – closely connected – short stories.

HM.

Finbar_Saunders 🚫

@Finbar_Saunders

So, in a probably vain attempt to get back onto topic.. (lol)

There is an obvious difference between the three books that I expect were the author's "trilogy" and the fourth book that finished the story.

I wonder whether the author expected to finish his exploration of the character just through his school days and then decided to "go for broke" and write about his life and simply forgot to update the synopsis.

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Quasirandom 🚫
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@Finbar_Saunders

That last happens a lot around here. There are several complete stories, some finished over a decade ago, that still promise updates twice a week, or whatever pace.

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madnige 🚫

@Quasirandom

There are several complete stories, some finished over a decade ago, that still promise updates twice a week, or whatever pace.

This. Yes. I've often thought that this could be avoided by Lazeez adding a second 'blurb' section for posting timing info or 'codes may change with future chapters'-like notices, shown only while the story is active and not complete.

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Keet 🚫

@madnige

This. Yes. I've often thought that this could be avoided by Lazeez adding a second 'blurb' section for posting timing info or 'codes may change with future chapters'-like notices, shown only while the story is active and not complete.

You have to draw the line somewhere. I think a second 'description' would be useful too, but for how many stories? The same with the once proposed second tags line where the first has the main codes and the second for incidental occurrences or squick warnings. Just thinking further along that line there are many more "nice to haves" but it has to remain manageable in code maintenance and data storage as well as remaining understandable by most readers. Too much information can be annoying too. So far I think SOL is very well balanced. Just try navigating 'that other site'. That site looks like they made an effort to make it as illogic and difficult to navigate as humanly possible.

palamedes 🚫

@Finbar_Saunders

What about Douglas Adams trilogy "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

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Finbar_Saunders 🚫

@palamedes

I agree, that.

:)

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