/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11651322]

Can a fiction book be enjoyed even if you know some spoilers?

[Anonymous No.11651330]

>>11651322
yes

[Anonymous No.11651331]

Yea just read it for the prose :)

[Anonymous No.11651333]

>>11651322
The journey is more important than the destination. You will come to realize this as you mature into an adult.

[Anonymous No.11651541]

>>11651322
Sometimes a book can be enjoyed more if you are spoiled in advance.

Consider, for instance, the death of a major character. If you didn't see it coming in advance, you'd feel surprise and shock when it happens, perhaps horror and disbelief. Afterwards, you'd feel emotionally numb for a little while, and your perception of the remainder of the book might well be thoroughly shaken. But at this point the book is unlikely to take too long anyway. All these emotions are brief, transient, reactionary: they will have washed out of you by the time you finish the book, or shortly after.

But let's say you were spoiled to this event in advance. What do you feel now? You feel excited, tense, throughout the entire book. The character has no plot armor - every time he enters a perilous situation you're honestly wondering whether this would be the place of his doom. Every time he talks about his future plans you can shake your head in sad irony; every time he gets emotional with other characters you can sniff out a little. You may even begin to distrust the other characters, wondering whether they might betray him. You may find things from the book on the first reading that many others only discover on the second or third. These emotions are longer-term, lasting, and carry on with you at least until the inevitable finally happens.

You're still a dick if you just go around shouting spoilers to people, of course. But if you go on your way to read about the book in advance, and happen to learn some terrible truth of how things come to be, it's not necessarily a bad thing for you.

[Anonymous No.11651626]

>>11651322
Depends on the book