SPOILING THE BESTSELLERS >> 1.15.08
Wanna know how they end? WARNING: You’re about to!
THE ALMOST MOON by Alice Sebold – The narrator is about to kill herself.
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini – The main character kills her husband with a shovel, and the Taliban executes her.
A LICK OF FROST by Laurell K. Hamilton – Princess Meredith earns the throne and thinks she may pregnant via rape, and isn’t happy about either.
THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH by Ken Follett – The cathedral gets built. –compiled by staff
You…BASTARDS! I was almost finished Pillars! You couldn’t have waited two days?
Kidding. Couldn’t pay me to read Follett, not after the abortion that was The Third Twin.
I have absolutely no desire to read any of these books but there are people who do, perhaps even some of your readers, so spoiling the endings is just gratuitously stupid. And what’s the fucking point? And don’t say there was a warning. The whole section can be read at a glance. I’ve always enjoyed this blog but that’s it for me. I won’t be back.
The point was to play up an edge I think has been lacking lately on these pages. But whether it should be done that way again or not is up to you guys. What does everyone think? Are two warnings enough? Or is it no fun at all?
Good thing that guy isn’t coming back–if there’s one place I don’t want to visit, it’s a Web site that takes books that take themselves too seriously too seriously.
I like edge, myself. But I know that there is a way to hide spoilers so that you have to click and highlight the area before it can be read. Maybe try that as an alternative?
That said, gentleman up above is WAY too sensitive. Hey, Michael: DARTH VADER IS LUKE’S FATHER! THE CHICK FROM THE CRYING GAME IS A DUDE!
Rosebud is a sled, Sharon stone is the killer, Bruce Willis is actually dead.
It’s a tad insensitive to others who may be about to read the book, or are reading it, and were looking around to see others’ opinions and landed here. Of the endings you reveal, none of them are books I would read, although I wouldn’t like to think that I would come one day and, by virtue of seeing the latest posts, catch the ending to something I was reading.
The Guardian does something in a similar vein, called Digested Read, in which John Crace rewrites the book with limited words. The results can be very funny. And if you don’t want the story spoiled, there’s no need to read the article.