>read table of contents before starting book>chapter name spoils a critical event in the story
>>24919914>bro thinks he's reading harry potter
>reading blurb on the back>multiple characters, plot beats and themes spoiled>experience ruinedevery time...
>>24919932>read blurb on back>spoils the very last line of the novelFuck you for spoiling Tale of Two Cities for me, Signature
>>24919914This has become so common that I blur my eyes as soon as I see large or capital text when I'm reading.
>buy The Shining book because I wanna reread>Has those typical sentences by critics in the cover and back cover>One of them says "[...]and an ending that's literally explosive" What the fuck is wrong with the people who greenlight this shit? So anyway, never read anything that's on a book and isn't the actual book text, that means things im the cover, back cover, index, preface, foreword, etc etc. All of that shit should be saved for after reading the actual book.
>>24919914Shouldn't have skipped ahead senpai
>Chapter hypes up a really cool and exciting thingElric of Melnibone is fun.
>>24919932this. I've had multiple books spoiled that way.They'll especially do it for "classic" books, I guess assuming everyone knows the story already.
>>24919914FOUL PLAY — introduction spoils plotDISMAY — chapter title spoils plotSOMEONE’S GOING TO PAY — book title spoils plot~ Top Ten Books Which Should Be Re-Titled To Avoid Spoilers ~HONOURABLE MENTION:Dodie Smith, ‘I Capture the Castle’Chinua Achebe, ‘Things Fall Apart’Leo Tolstoy, ‘The Death of Ivan Ilych’Agatha Christie, ‘Lord Edgeware Dies’Samuel Beckett, ‘Malone Dies’Willa Cather, ‘Death Comes for the Archbishop’James Hilton, ‘Goodbye Mr Chips’BRONZE:William Shakespeare, ‘All’s Well That Ends Well’SILVER:John Milton, ‘Paradise Lost’GOLD:Edward Gibbon, ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’
>>24922993Crime and Punishment should be on there, surely?
>read TBK penguin editions>"the brutal murder of landowner fyodor pavlovich karamazov">the murder in question doesn't happen until page 600+
>>24922780really? i was only joking
>>24919914It used to be a saying that "You should know the play before you see it". "Spoiler" culture is a product of poorly written media.
>15.........The Death of Mr. Majestral
Am I the only person not caring about being spoiled? I have never gotten angry at this and often look forward to reading the part that was spoiled.
>>24919914i never understood why a writer would have a table of contentsits not a fucking reference text book. there is no need to skip ahead or find any specific chapter quickly and out of order.its retarded
>>24924647Usually when I check a table if contents it is to see how many pages are left in the current chapter.
>>24924386NTA but that happened to me recently with Jude the Obscure. It's an Oxford critical edition so it's somewhat understandable, but it isn't as if the story is so universally recognised to where it isn't a spoiler. It didn't spoil everything that happens, thankfully.
>>24924386>>24924726I was reading The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas and the blurb on the back spoiled a major plot point that happens in the last quarter of the book. Great.I own an old copy of Crime and Punishment which has something like "...with the help of the whore Sonya he realizes that he must turn himself in and face the punishment for his crimes..." on the back of it.I guess maybe with C&P you can assume people know what happens, but still.
>>24919914to what end would you read blurbs or ToC?
>>24924844why even have blurbs then?
