Hahaha, I'm sorry, would they have preffered a Harry Potter Ending? Oh, what an epilogue...
Or a story which goes until the characters die of old age or syphillis (okay, not likely in a EUOL book but maybe in a Pratchett one...)? You get my drift here...
Ugh, who wants to read epiloguies that pigeonhole every character into their roles after the book is over? Yuck.
Imagination's cool. I'd like to think there's always another adventure on the horizon or whatever for the characters...
... On the subject from letters from readers, here's the fan letter excerpts James Gurney (Dinotopia) has on his page. It's pretty hilarious as most are letters from primary school children and many are kind of backhanded compliments...
and some totally random ones, like asking him what age their teacher is because she won't tell them (and evidently since he draws dinosaurs he can unravel the mystery... or something apporaching that logic)... anyway, here's the link:
http://www.dinotopia.com/fanzone.htmlIt's interesting to see what kind of fan mail books from different genres get.