Slight change of topic, but did anyone ever read the whole of "The Wheel of Time" series by Robert Jordan?
I started reading this series of books (about ten years ago, probably more) when I thought there were three volumes total. Imagine my horror when, having ploughed through over 1,500 pages of print, the story was still left hanging.
I later bought volume 4 and read it... and the story still wasn't done.
Volume 5... by this point I'm getting more than a bit tired of the whole thing, and I'm losing track of the dozens of characters being introduced.
Volume 6, I never even read it, got it in a charity shop for 50p.
Volume 7.... yawn. I gave up.
In fact, forget that, I see nobody could have, because it's going to run to 12 volumes, and #11 was only published in October 2005.
How is anyone supposed to keep their interest in a series of books that takes over 6,000 pages and twelve years to reach a conclusion?