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I have had so many books ruined by the summary. They will regularly include details about what happens in even the latter half of the story. I never read them
by Wowfunhappy 3y ago
I have had so many books ruined by the summary. They will regularly include details about what happens in even the latter half of the story.
I never read them anymore. It's harder to find books, but at least I don't see literal spoilers.
- climb_stealth 3y agoSame. It's also quite a different experience reading a book without having any idea what it is about. Mostly Sci-Fi and Fantasy in my case. These days I ask my partner to check for other books in a series. Even just trying to look up the sequels online can spoil quite a lot. This may sound like a hassle but it's actually not.
- jeffwass 3y agoI’ve done this with movies sometimes, it can be a fun experience.
- climb_stealth 3y agoAgreed. I'd say the excerpts on the back of DVDs are actually worse than books. Have been burned by those a few times. Not that DVDs are that common anymore.
- megmogandog 3y agoMy personal worst experience of this was Philip K. Dick's Time out of Joint; since then I only read the blurbs after I'm finished.
- jeffwass 3y agoI’ve also seen this with the two sentence blurb about TV series episodes on streaming and broadcasting services. Eg, I was really pissed off seeing Sky TV spoil Game of Thrones like this. I browsing TV schedule one night to see was on, and accidentally saw a GoT episode summary scroll by : “After the death of XXXXX, the characters try to…”
- Loughla 3y agoMaybe because it was a book already? Otherwise there's somebody working there that is a monster.
- jamesmontalvo3 3y agoI don’t even want to see the title of an It’s Always Sunny episode before the cold opening.
- autoexec 3y agoTitles don't usually spoil too much. At least the writers expect you to see them.
- TheRoque 3y agoA lot of translated titles contain slight spoilers though, for example "predestination" becomes "time paradox" in Korean, it immediately gives you a hint of some part of the twist.
- squeaky-clean 3y agoAt least with Always Sunny the title is usually the punchline to a joke they set up in the cold open and then drop the title card. Dee: "No that's a bad idea. Usually when you get involved somebody gets hurt." Frank: "That's ridiculous. I'm just paling around with the guys. How is anybody going to get hurt?" Title Card: "Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire"
- autoexec 3y agoI've seen streaming services spoil an episode with just the thumbnail. I can't remember what show's twist was ruined for me, but I'm pretty sure it was Netflix. Netflix also has a really annoying habit of re-ordering seasons. For some bizarre reason shows like bake off are listed with the most recently added series first. For some shows that might not be a huge problem but in the first episode of one series they actually recap the winners of all previous series, spoiling several years of programing for unwary netflix viewers.