I loved it too. But somehow I wish he'd ended it there, and I never had to know how Woodrow dies. The book didn't need to be shorter, but the rest of the series may have diminished it. I feel that way about Dune too.

On the other hand I'm a fiend for the real long-form, like the Aubrey-Maturin series, a novel in twenty-one volumes. That kind of seemlessness is rare. McMurtry killed his Maturin in volume one. The rest felt like post script.