Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!royt From: royt@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy M. Turner) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: The concept of spoilers Message-ID: <498@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 12:21:33 EDT Article-I.D.: gitpyr.498 Posted: Thu Jun 27 12:21:33 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 03:24:42 EDT References: <2310@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: royt@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy M. Turner) Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 39 Summary: Ken Moreau writes: >Could someone who doesn't read spoilers respond with why you feel the way you >do? Well, I like surprises. I find that they are one of the things that make reading fiction enjoyable; a totally predictable book would, to me, be a waste of time to read unless the author was a *superb* craftsman/woman in other ways and could keep me spellbound with characterizations, etc. I reread books, but only after enough time has elapsed that not every detail about the plot and characters is still burned into my memory. I will admit that I often hurry through a book the first time (if it is especially fast- paced) just to see what will happen next; re-reading that book then allows me the luxury of "admiring the scenery" so to speak. But far from detracting from my pleasure, the suspense of not knowing what will come next heightens it. I suppose my tastes are as much an enigma to you as yours were to me...each to their own, eh? But do you find any enjoyment in O. Henry stories (or horror stories) at all? Regards, Roy P.S.: Thanks to all of you who put *spoiler* labels on postings! P.P.S.: Massive flames to all reviewers who spoil the plots of good books/ movies in their reviews without telling you they are about to do so! -- The above opinions aren't necessarily those of etc, etc...but they should be!! Roy Turner (a transplanted Kentucky hillbilly) School of Information and Computer Science Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!royt