Thread: Should a book say "The End"
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Old 01-03-2011, 07:20 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by bhartman36 View Post
One of the things I like to do in my writing is to leave the reader with unanswered questions at the end (mostly in the form of "What's going to happen next?"). I feel like "The End" is part of a device that wraps things up in a nice little package, and it's not something I like to do.
Good point.

I think it was Rendevous with Rama that Arthur C. Clarke ended with something like (from memory), "But the Ramans do everything in threes!" I read that he had no intention of writing the next two novels at the time he finished that one but he just wanted to leave something dangling.
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