Richard Suitor <rsuitor at cjwrfs.net> wrote on Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:18:48 > Personally, for an author whom I read because I like the way he writes > and like to be in the worlds he creates, I think spoilers of little > relevance. Yup, people vary wildly on how they feel about spoilers. I now often avoid reading blurbs on the book jackets. Surprisingly, attitudes don't seem tightly correlated with whether one rereads books. I like to reread books, and while it is true that I have been "spoiled" for the rereads, I still like to be unspoiled for my first pass, which is generally the only reliable time I can count on being maximally unspoiled. (But not always. Some books I've read so fast or made so little impression the first time, when I come back to them, it's almost as if I'm reading them the first time.) I guess roughly 1/5 to 1/2 of the books I read a year are rereads. > They will be an annoyance to Steve -- I would think that > in this group that would be a major inducement not to use them. But > others may have different views. Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying here. Please explain? - tky