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Almost OT, but I hate literature with the criticism at the front. I find it almost impossible to skip without reading a few words and there are always spoilers
by msg 18y ago
Almost OT, but I hate literature with the criticism at the front. I find it almost impossible to skip without reading a few words and there are always spoilers (this happened to me on Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and The Pearl, and some Stephen King stuff). But if they were an afterword instead, no one would read them...
I hate soundtrack previews for the DVD I'm about to watch for exactly the same reason.
- justindz 18y agoI hated the Crouching Tiger DVD. Since I didn't see the movie in theater, getting the DVD to play involved going through a few menus showing very critical development moments in the movie. Lame. In case you want to read my mock Preamble and commiserate, I'll go ahead and be vain: http://poetry.herokugarden.com/poems/38 http://poetry.herokugarden.com/poems/38
- msg 18y agoCrazy, the exact same thing happened to me recently. At one point David Lynch wanted his DVDs not to have scene breaks, just a play button. I get it, I totally do. I'm at work so your preamble is firewalled, but I'll get to it this evening.