“If you've never read Little Dorrit before, you might want to save this Introduction for an Afterword. There's no way to dance around all of Dickens's secrets and revelations and still make myself intelligible; three sentences from here, I'm going to start letting stuff slip, so if you want to bail, bail now.”
As a compulsively responsible reader who always feels obligated to read the intro, I SO appreciate this spoiler alert! #WhattheDickens
willaful YES! The intro to Emma completely spoiled it for me! 4d
Lcsmcat I remember as a kid reading the intro to Romeo and Juliet before I knew the story. I was so confused about who died when! 4d
Cuilin Yeah, I always skip a forward or an introduction for this very reason of spoilers. And I also want to come up with my own impressions. If I really enjoyed the book, I will go back and read the introduction. 4d
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Tamra I usually read Intros after finishing. 😅 4d
BarbaraJean @willaful @Lcsmcat @Cuilin @Tamra Introductions to classic novels have spoiled the ending or key plot twists for me so many times, but I somehow still feel like I HAVE to read it because it‘s an intro. I guess I needed the acknowledgment and permission this editor gave me!! 4d
AnneCecilie @BarbaraJean I‘m like you and have had endings spoiled. I think people writing introductions should acknowledge that there will be a lot of first time reads and not spoil thing. I once read an introduction 50 p before the end of a chunckster and the ending was still spoiled. So now I‘ve learned my lesson 4d
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