It's OK - no spoilers

[strange_complex]

I queued for The Book last night, as planned, and all was good - despite both the rain and Waterstone's bizarre attempts to turn the world's simplest and most effective system for ensuring that everyone is served in a fair order (viz., The Queue) into a confused mess by super-imposing a numbered ticketing system onto it without offering any clear

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[kernowgirl]

You read the end first? You... you philistine!

Of course, I sometimes have to read with my hand blocking the text further down the page to make sure I don't accidentally see something ahead of time....

[strange_complex]

Yes, because how else would I know where it was all going, so that I could spot significant developments, enjoy dramatic irony and feel sorry for the right characters in their final hours? Did it spoil 'Oedipus Rex' for its original audience that they knew Oedipus would turn out to have murdered his father and married his mother, eh?

[kernowgirl]

Ah, but that's the beauty of the re-read! For me, that first read through where you truly don't know what is going to happen and have to see if you can guess using clues provided and also the basic balance of storytelling as you go along.

Although the classical storytelling convention of knowing the story has always been my favourite way of explaining the joys of fanfiction. Really, that's what all the Greek plays (and epic poems) were, after all. The authors revisiting myths to explore how their favourite characters felt.

[kernowgirl]

Oops. I got carried away and left myself with a sentence fragment up there. I meant to say that first read through, blah blah blah, is sacred.

[miss_dark]

Aw thank you! *beam* It was really good of you to come, I feel like I got to know you a bit better and that we are proper neighbours now! *beam* I can't wait for your housewarming I'm sure it will be splendid I am so excited about seeing your lovely house!!!! *beam*

I picked up my Deathly Hallows from the sorting office this morning as they claimed I wasn't in on Saturday when they tried to deliver it! *pfft*