>spoiler in the introduction

Knowing what happens allows you to enjoy the technique, method, and story more.

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/archive/newsrel/soc/2011_08spoilers.asp

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/aug/17/spoilers-enhance-enjoyment-psychologists

I'd even go so far as to say most literary texts purposefully have spoilers in the introduction so that you are forced to focus on the mastery of the work rather than just wondering what happens next. They're trying to make you not so pleb, whether or not that's actually working.

>>7516725
>reading the introduction first

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>spoiler in the outroduction

>author hangs himself before he is done a book

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>reading for plot

>Introduction makes no sense
>The book makes no sense
>A different book makes sense of the first introduction
>A final book explains everything previous
>A short story is released 10 years later and now nothing makes sense

>>7516854
Calvino, is that you?

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>book has no pictures

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>>7516725
>pic related
At least I was prepared for the abrupt second half.

>>7518280
Read If Upon A Winters Night a Traveller

>>7516729
The problem with that is it conditions you to look for a certain aspect of the text, rather than find your own meaning in it.

And god forbid you actually want to be surprised by a story and enjoy its suspense

>>7518391
I'm surprised you haven't been memed yet by 15 people going
>enjoying literature
PLEB
L
E
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etc.

>>7516781
too soon

>caring about spoilers
I never understood this meme. Are there really people out there who read for the plot?

>>7518621
Humbert kills Quilty

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>Whole plot gets spoiled in the back cover
>Introduction of 60 pages by literally who in a pocket edition of a 200 pages novella
>font size 8

Fucking Planeta

>>7518314
Man, fuck Russia.

>>7518748
>>Whole plot gets spoiled in the back cover

This literally happened in the Wordsworth edition of Dostoevsky's Devils.
>book is 700 fucking pages
>back cover spoils something that happens in the last 30 pages

Why is this allowed?

>>7516725
>Introduction longer than the main content because someone decided to print ONE FUCKING ESSAY in a single paperback.

} not reading the introduction after reading the book

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>book is exactly what it said to be

>>7516725
>Two star crossed lovers take their life

All these plebs who don't read the introduction, critical essays, reviews/synopses, the sequel, the prequel and watch the movie before reading the book.

Sickens me.

>it's x years old and yet you haven't read it by now? :^)

>spoiler in chapter title

>>7516725
>reading for plot

sure is reddit in here

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>>7519423
>Current year
>not having read every book, essay and play in existence

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>people on /lit/ are talking about a book

>>7519932
follow that logic to its endpoint and start doing heroin

>>7519965
neither is heroin.

>>7518391
>suspense
>surprises
>>>r/books

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>spoiler on the back cover

>>7518391
>it conditions you to look for a certain aspect of the text, rather than find your own meaning in it.

I disagree. It's not telling you to find the one specific answer. It's merely telling you what happens so you don't worry about that (really immaterial) shit and focus on other things.

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>Book or movie starts with a flash forward of intense scene and cuts off you dramatically

>main character wakes up and it was all a dream

>>7516854
what's this?

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>the title spoils the ending

roooooo

>>7520361
>main character used to read word up magazine

>>7520600
>main character pulls a george berrycone in the middle of the book and you're left to suffer through 150 pages of drivel

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>chapter header gives a bullet point summary of the events going to happen in the chapter

why

>>7516729
That's why you re-read a book. Have some surprise in the first read, more appreciation in the second read.