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> ....and no one ever mentions the third part because it was so long and poor that the book would be better without it.

The consistent thing about Neal Stephenson books seems to be that nobody likes the endings. In a way, I guess we want them to go on forever?

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Stephenson ends a book like a crash ends a car trip. It's not that I wanted the trip to go on forever, it's that I wanted it to end with the car neatly parked in a driveway, rather than unrecognizeable pieces scattered in a ravine.

I don't agree in this example. Seveneves did end, then it came back it ruined itself. A bit anyway, you can ignore the final act pretty easily.

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