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Sep 29, 2010 07:50AM
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Sometimes I will read a paragraph or two from a page towards the back. Then I feel guilty and go back to where I belong in the book. I do have a "problem"! OH NO!!!
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I used to do this all the time. Try not too so much now. But, I do still peak ahead sometimes. If I am reading an ebook it is a bit more difficult to peak ahead. Which can be a good and bad thing. LOL
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Lisa wrote: "Does anyone have the "problem" of sneaking a peek at the last page of a book? Do you think that it is an addiction? LOL"i think it is appalling.....who in their RIGHT mind would do such a thing????
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When I start to feel bored I read the ending and sometimes, most of the time, I finish the book. When I cannot take the suspense anymore I read the ending and in mysteries it helps me notice the clues better. I did peek ahead in Woman in White but, let me tell you, I'm not far enough into the book for it to help at all! LOLBTW, I'm liking the book but it does drag a bit.
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Lisa wrote: "I must admit that I looked at Wikipedia to see what happened in Woman in White. I don't know why, but I was REALLY wanting to know what was going to occur next. So, I was very bad and know the gi..."OH NO Lisa... LOL.. that is one thing I like about the sony reader. I cannot skip ahead to see what happens.
Lisa wrote: "I must admit that I looked at Wikipedia to see what happened in Woman in White. I don't know why, but I was REALLY wanting to know what was going to occur next. So, I was very bad and know the gi..."I have my suspicions, too, Lisa, but I read so little of the last page that I'm not sure I'm right and what little I learned has made me all the more curious. If it gets too stressful I may have to read more of the ending--LOL
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I used to always read the last sentence when I started reading a book. I haven't done it on 1984 yet...yet. ;)
It's a habit for me, especially if I am in suspense of something. I had managed to break it once but unfortunately I reacquired it.
I actually don't do this anymore because I read most of my books on my Nook now. It's much more difficult to skip to the last page, I just eventually forgot to do it!
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I'm actually getting worse with this. I have now become a terrible example of reading the last part of the books. Maybe I need an ereader, it seems to stop it.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Lisa, reading an ebook does decrease it somewhat but lately that hasn't been enough for me either. lol. I will just skip to a random point in the back of the book, read, skip some more, read, rinse and repeat until I find what I'm looking for. Then, I go back to read the rest. hehe.
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Kerri wrote: "I am so happy to not be the only one who sneaks a peek at the end."Kerri, I am too since it seems to be something that scandalizes a lot of people. :)
I am such a good girl ;) I actually never once in my life did that, but then again I never went searching for the christmas gifts before the actual day as a kid. I think the two are closely linked seriously, my mother always reads the end and is still unable to wait for a gift and dislikes surprises?!?!What is there to dislike in a surprise? Same with the endings, I find the best ones are the ones that take me by surprise, the ones I couldn't predict. Besides I think there would be a lot more unfinished books in my life if I read the ending.
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Vicky wrote: "Besides I think there would be a lot more unfinished books in my life if I read the ending. "That might be so, Vicky, but to be honest, of all the books I've read and not finished (which is more than I could have wished), I'd only read the back of them once or twice, and I'd stopped reading because I dislike sad endings - and they were sad. The rest were all nonfiction books for school or classics/nonfiction that I wanted to read but stopped for one reason or another. I'm determined to go back and finish those books up though - one day. But then again, my sister is also one to many times stop reading a book once she's read the back.
What I love is when I read the end, then, when I actually get to the end, the ending doesn't mean what I thought it did before. That make sense?
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I understand what you mean. Your perception of the end can definetly change once you actually read the book.
I'm a stickler for NOT skipping to the end. I read lots of mysteries and that feels like cheating (even when I'm not trying to figure out 'whodunit'). Mostly I don't do it because it would take away from my enjoyment. I like to see how the story unfolds.
Nell, I understand what you mean by that. Sometimes I feel the same way. And sometimes it relieves my mind. For example, I dislike reading sad endings. There was a book that had a bittersweet ending. Nearly all the reviews had hinted at it but didn't say what it was. I purchased it and read the ending to get the sad part out of the way. I'm glad that I did because doing so made the sad ending have less of an impact on me, emotionally, so that I was able to actually enjoy the rest of the story. If I had not done that, I would have been on the edge the entire time and not enjoyed it.
I have never actually read the end of a book ahead of time, but I am always tempted to! Sometimes a book will seem to be heading a certain way, or I'm concerned about the way a particular plot will work out, and I will flip ahead to the end -- and then stop myself and go back to where I was.I'm currently reading a series where the main character is pregnant, and early on it was suggested that she will have no choice but to abandon her baby at birth. I was SOOOO tempted to skip ahead and find out, and if she did it I wasn't going to read the series anymore! But, as it turned out, the current book ends with the situation still unresolved, so it wouldn't have done me any good. Guess I'll have to buy the next book and find out!
