paul suddenly remembered other examples of this odd mania : the way people had mobbed the baltimore docks each month when the packet bearing the new installment of mr dickens 's little dorrit or oliver twist was due ( some had drowned , but this did not discourage the others ) ; the old woman of a hundred and five who had declared she would five until mr galsworthy finished the forsyte saga - and who had died less than an hour after having the final page of the final volume read to her ; the young mountain climber hospitalized with a supposedly fatal case of hypothermia whose friends had read the lord of the rings to him nonstop , around the clock , until he came out of his coma ; hundred s of other such incidents .