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3900988 No.3900988 [Reply] [Original]

>spoilers in the foreword

>> No.3900995

Hey man, my copy of Anna Karinina had spoilers on the blurb

>> No.3900998

If a book can be spoiled, it's not good literature.

>> No.3900999
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3900999

>typo in the text

>> No.3901017
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>purple prose

>> No.3901028
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>first-person

>> No.3901029
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3901029

>back blurb promises a book filled with intense horror
>the horror is there for about four pages

>> No.3901048

>>3900998
Dmitri gets thrown in jail for the murder of his father.
Fuck you.

>> No.3901054
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>Abrupt change to the point-of-view of someone mentally handicapped

>> No.3901057

>>3901029
>Buy Girl of Nightmares series because cover said romance and it had ghost girl and ghost hunter guy
>15 pages of romance
>Rest of book it's about main guy and a normal girl romance.
And in the bin it went

>> No.3901085

>>3900998
That doesn't make a fucking iota of sense.

>> No.3901099

>>3901085

He means that if a book's themes are good enough/meaningful enough, the plot shouldn't matter. And he's obviously wrong.

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>obvious product placement

>> No.3901110

>>3901054
b-but what do you m-mean by abrupt? b-because, you know, Faulkner

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>>3901106
>he doesn't like product placement

>> No.3901117

They're trying to tell you that plot is for plebs.

>> No.3901121

>>3901099
>the plot shouldn't matter
I don't think he's saying that, only that if revealing it before hand spoils it, then it might be relying too much on shock or lack in other aspects, at least. That does make some sense but ultimately I think it's also wrong. There are people who get butthurt about spoilers and people that don't. That is independent of the book

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>Gothic
>Not even any cute guys in tight black clothing.
Ann Radcliffe is a fucking poser.