> You cannot read such a book, you run through it to see the problem worked out I read dozens of Christie novels in middle school. Somehow I kept getting hooke

> You cannot read such a book, you run through it to see the problem worked out I read dozens of Christie novels in middle school. Somehow I kept getting hooked by the obvious question: "Who did it?" and gobbled up the book until I had the answer. With my last Christie book I decided to skip the 150 pages of "fluff" and go straight to the last chapter. The immediate gratification allowed me to get busy with other things, but felt so much less interesting than the delayed gratification. It was a point of no return though and I never went back to another Christie book or another mystery novel.