mberkman@bbnccs (07/10/85)
From: Melinda Berkman <mberkman@bbnccs.ARPA>
Despite all the chit-chat about spoilers and spoiler warnings lately,
people are still not using them . Reading a book when you know what
is going to happen is not quite the same as when you do, and it should be
clear by now that some of us would at least like the option of experiencing
the former as well as the latter. I just finished reading the fourth book
in the Amber series last night, and was so anxious to read the fifth, Courts
of Chaos, that I was even willing to spend real money and try to buy it new
rather than wait until it turned up in my local used book store. This is a
series that particularly depends on surprise and not knowing who is doing
what to whom, with the protaganist and reader discovering a little more of
the Truth in each novel. Then someone summarized the entire book in a review
of Trumps of Doom, with putting a spoiler warning on the review or that
particular paragraph. It is not easy to turn your eyes away from your
terminal in the middle of a sentence; most people read more than a word at
a time! It would be going too far to say that Courts of Chaos is entirely
ruined for me, but I NEVER would have guessed from the ending of Hand of
Oberon that things were going to end up the way they evidently do.
So, people,
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
USE ********** SPOILER WARNINGS ********** !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Melinda Berkman (mberkman@bbnccs.ARPA)