On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Paul Dutton <[email protected]> wrote: > On the plus side, Parks3 did alert me to the fact that amazon uk have now got > their act together and made the reprint of ACI available for Kindle App. > Thanks! > > Nothing in stating my gratitude for this means that I don't respect the rules > on spoilers. > > In fact they are very necessary. The subject of the email is not always clear > and I hope there are people out there who are yet to read "Magician". They > don't need to see the enjoyment stolen from them by finding out later plot > details too soon. > > A spoiler does not restrict discussion at all; it just pushes it down the > page. There have been many feisty discussions here over the years (pun > intended). > > Returning to lurking. > > Paul > > Sent from my iPad >
Personally I think this rule should have evolved by now, with 30+ books written. Even though someone did not read Magician or any early books you are getting spoiled by reading later books. Heck, how many times in ACI did you read a brief description of past events, when Gorath did that, when the Emerald Queen invaded this thing happened, or it was found out she was not this or that, or after obliteration of his people, that character now has hope to rebuild his country because this and that..... Should Ray also writes "spoiler alerts" in his books too? <grin> Joking aside I know my opinion is not popular, even with Ray, and I'm not saying "I'm right, let's change this tomorrow". But sometimes I feel like it's just "the law is the law" and nobody is really thinking about it. I've been here since the 90s, and in those days I could understand the necessity. But now I'm not so sure. PJ
