[LMB] who, spoiler-phobic, us?

[Katrina Allis]

On 17/03/2008, Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan <tora.smulders at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/17/08, Tony Zbaraschuk <tonyz at eskimo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I _know_ I'm going to have a lot of re-reads of anything Bujold writes,
> > knowing what's going to come and enjoying the foreshadowing and so
> forth.
> >
> > I will only ever have one chance to read the book not knowing what's
> > going to happen next.
>

Tora:

So thanks, Tony, for making me realize what it is that makes me so
> spoiler-phobic.  Unless it's a book I don't really care about, that
> I'm never going to read again, that I'm just finishing because I
> always tend to finish books, I'm really not going to want to know what
> happens.  And I won't read the end.


For much the same reasons, I'm relatively spoiler-phobic, particularly on
this list.  I never really was beforehand, but I was never really in a place
where I could find out spoilers.  Blurbs are fine, they're public knowledge
anyway, although I think I didn't even read that before _Beguilement_ came
out for some reason.

My first time reading a book I will race through it - I have to know what
happens next.  Then second time through (which is not immediately after,
now) I will take more slowly, find things I didn't see on the first read and
pick up on more of the use of language and coincidences.  I don't tend to
read the end first now, either, unless I'm struggling through it and just
want to know what happens now.

Ordered _Passage_ from Unity Books the other day.  I am looking forward to
it's arrival.

Katrina - somewhat surprised to be wide awake at 6.30am due to an alarm mix
up