Is there anyone on this list who hadn't read already Orca when they first joined (or within a year of it being published, whichever came first)? > umm so what you are telling us is that you are ok with being the guy in > line to see Revenge of the Sith who tells a 7 year old that Aniken is Darth > Vader and that his son in gonna be Luke Skywalker. > > I don't think that the fact that I have known a spoiler for 10 years makes > it any less a spoiler for the audience yet to read the various pieces out > there. Heck at this point I'd think it's safe to assume that there were > children being born when Orca was released that may, in 6 years or so, get > to that book. I think it'd be nice for us to leave them the magic that we > all came to on our own. > > Or one more view on it - Had someone spoiled the Hobbit or the Lord of the > Rings for you before you read them? Did you know Gandalf would die, or that > he'd get better? I didn't and I am damn thankful that there was not, when I > first read those books, (books that were 30 years old at that point) someone > at my side, or in my e-mail telling me about pivotal plot points. > > Just my views, > Rion > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info > [mailto:dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info]On Behalf Of Charles Sumner > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 10:16 AM > To: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: The Orca Spoiler - Time to let it go? (was Re: Proof Mario is > Alive?...) > > > At 11:35 AM 12/5/2005 -0500, you wrote: > >>>[Spoiler] that indicate she believes Mario is still current and active > > > >>Shouldn't we "spoiler" these bits? I don't think everyone on the list has > >>read all of the books. > > > >Isn't the mailing list the final stage of total Brust addiction? How can > >you have considered getting on this list until you have read all of the > >books and are impatiently waiting for the next? > > Next month will be the 10th anniversary of the release of Orca and I think > it might be time to let that particular spoiler go. The Issola spoiler is > 4 years old this month (3 years if you want to count from the paperback > publication) so I don't mind hanging on to that one, for now. > > Yes, I do know that there are some people on this list who haven't read all > of the books, but I still think it's a bit silly for us to still be using a > spoiler-warning for a book that's 10 years old on a list designed to > discuss these books. If this was a general-purpose, SF mailing-list, then > sure. But the Orca spoiler is central to many of the discussion on this > list, as I suspect the Issola spoiler will be when Dzur comes out. > > Can we put something in the sign-up email that says something to the effect > of, this mailing is for the discussion of Steven Brust's Dragaera novels, > be warned that you might see spoilers if you haven't read them all yet. > > > Charley Sumner > > An open mind is one thing, letting geese run around in there is completely > different. > > >