From jsn@concentric.net Mon Apr 30 11:10:42 2001 Date: 17 Feb 2001 01:19:54 GMT From: "John S. Novak, III" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: DONT SPOIL GEORGE MARTIN HERE On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:53:39 -0600, Mike Kozlowski wrote: >>I think most people can figure out that if, say, there's a long >>thread about Jordan vs Martin, there might possibly be some spoilers >>in there. >Right. But people aren't expecting a post in the middle of a random >thread to say things like "I think Rand's death is going to be handled the >same way the protagonist's death at the end of Brust's _Brokedown Palace_ >was." >I don't care how old the book is, if you haven't read it but plan to, >you're going to be pretty pissed that someone just gave away the ending. No, actually, I am not going to be pissed because someone gave away the anding to a book that was published five years ago. There is a shelf life on things like this, and expecting the rest of the world to take that many special pains, forever, to avoid the cosmically infinitessimal existential pain that you might feel because you won't have full satisfaction of a five year old book is an insanity of presumption. Anyone who thinks they have any right to expect spoiler warnings for everything, forever... get over yourselves. (Caesar dies. Frodo lives. Christ does both. Guess I ruined those for you, too.) -- John S. Novak, III jsn@concentric.net The Humblest Man on the Net