Cut for meta-spoilers
Jun. 7th, 2010 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustI 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.
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.
