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Post by ailishsmom on Apr 23, 2008 21:59:19 GMT -5
I avoid spoilers. I don't even like to read excerpts if I can help it. I'm the same way. I just don't want to know. And I'll never understand those people that read the last few pages of a book first.
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Post by mouse on Apr 23, 2008 22:06:32 GMT -5
I do have to admit I do at times read the last page of the book before it is over. But I have a strict rule in doing so. It is only the last page and I can't read it until I am at least half way through the book. And usually when I do this something major happens; like someone dying and I am so distraught that I have to know if it is true or not or if something good happens out of it. It's like an incentive to finish the book then and there and no just stop and mourn the character or event. I did that once and I took like a week off the book just to mourn.
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Post by Vicki Pettersson on Apr 23, 2008 22:25:38 GMT -5
I do have to admit I do at times read the last page of the book before it is over. But I have a strict rule in doing so. It is only the last page and I can't read it until I am at least half way through the book. And usually when I do this something major happens; like someone dying and I am so distraught that I have to know if it is true or not or if something good happens out of it. It's like an incentive to finish the book then and there and no just stop and mourn the character or event. I did that once and I took like a week off the book just to mourn. MOUSE!!!!! Promise me now you won't do that with TOUCH. PROMISE!!!!! I'll maul you with...cupcakes!
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Post by mouse on Apr 23, 2008 22:28:16 GMT -5
I'll try! I'll really do my best. But suddenly I am worried. *is paranoid now that something bad is going to happen*
Maul me with cupcakes? That's a bad thing?
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Post by Vicki Pettersson on Apr 23, 2008 23:14:31 GMT -5
I'll try! I'll really do my best. But suddenly I am worried. *is paranoid now that something bad is going to happen* Maul me with cupcakes? That's a bad thing? Well, no, dude. It's just that I work so hard to build toward that ending. You read the ending first and you jack it all up! Hm... maul you with cauliflower?
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Post by vampyre on Apr 23, 2008 23:42:20 GMT -5
Hot broccoli?
I could never do that. The thought of it makes my skin crawl. I almost got tossed out of a movie once because some fools were giving a way plot twists of the movie once.
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Post by mouse on Apr 24, 2008 12:56:37 GMT -5
Cauliflower? That would hurt and stink.
I'll read the whole book before my mourning period. I just know I read a book once and someone 'died' and took a couple of days off the book to mourn only to find out they didn't die.
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Post by Raven on Apr 24, 2008 15:43:27 GMT -5
Vicki's right. Listen to her. For one thing, it won't make sense that way. Read it straight though, the way it's meant to be read. At least the first time. Then, the next time you read it, you can skip to the end, pretending to be naughty. K?
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Post by mouse on Apr 24, 2008 15:56:01 GMT -5
Yes mom!
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Post by vampyre on Apr 27, 2008 5:39:25 GMT -5
I have an idea. I don't know how feasible it is but it is mean and mischievous. What if authors start putting fake endings in the last 5 or 10 pages of a book.
It'd probably cost too much and take to much effort to do it but it'd be so funny when they finally read through the book and realize they were tricked.
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Post by Raven on Apr 27, 2008 10:18:31 GMT -5
You're just mean.
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Post by vampyre on Apr 27, 2008 11:11:57 GMT -5
I prefer mischievous(but I can't spell it thank goodness for spellcheckers)
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Post by Starlit Rogue on Apr 27, 2008 23:18:27 GMT -5
I have an idea. I don't know how feasible it is but it is mean and mischievous. What if authors start putting fake endings in the last 5 or 10 pages of a book. It'd probably cost too much and take to much effort to do it but it'd be so funny when they finally read through the book and realize they were tricked. *snickers*
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