Cut for meta-spoilers

[shewhomust]

I diary all the books I read (eventually), but only a fraction of them on-line. Sometimes what I have to say about a book is too boring to share, sometimes it's too personal. Sometimes - despite a pretty robust policy on spoilers - I don't feel that what I have to say merits the spoiler value of saying it.

I'm just starting to write up a book which falls into the latter category, and I was reflecting on how my perception of the kind of book it is, the kind of story I was being told, had shifted at the very end, the resolution. Surely this was sufficiently abstract not to spoiler the plot for anyone?

Surely; but plot isn't the only thing you can spoiler, and I'd hate to reduce the surprise and mystery of your reading. So I won't. But let me just say that it's a terrific book, and that if this is the kind of thing you like, you may well like it a lot.

I feel as if I've just invented the meta-spoiler.

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

You might at least tell us what you read!

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Well, no, you see, that's the problem: if I tell you, you'll know in advance that it's not necessarily going to turn out to be the kind of book you think it is, and then you'd lose the surprise...

Of course, this may all be in my head; it may be perfectly obvious from the start what's going on (or at least, what's meta-going on), and I'm just being dim.