Oh, well, I don’t read series out of order though, unless I am absolutely unable to acquire the books in the right order. Series books out of order are too confusing, and often assume that I will already have fallen in love with the characters when I have not. :p

Read Dorothy Dunnet’s Checkmate long before I managed to get my hands on anything else, and it helped make sense of a lot.

I can’t tell you how many times have I pleaded with someone who didn’t want to Spoil the Ending! “No, you can tell me. Really. I’m an English major; I can handle it. You can’t spoil it for me.” Alas, they hardly ever buy it (the non-lit types are far too plot-focused).

I personally can’t read the ending first, but if it’s what you enjoy then I see no reason for you to change your ways. It’s cool that you were willing to try to change your habits in order to see what it was like though.

I was just thinking of putting a post together about how I can’t stand books that give everything away in the first chapter (telling the end first and then flashing back). Do you like that also, or is your preference just for reading the actual end of the book?

I’m telling you, it can improve your reading experience substantially. It is fun and awesome!

When I was eight or nine, and reading Jane Eyre for the first time, my mother kept saying “Wait until you get to the end. The end is so wonderful. You’re going to love the end,” and I just couldn’t take waiting for it, so I skipped ahead and read the end. And I have done so in most of my reading since then. My mother does it too, so I got validation at home about it. :p

😀 Thanks!

Yup, it’s got to be better to know it sooner. But it’s not often that reading the end makes me toss away a book in disgust – even if it seems like a crappy ending, I’m usually curious to see if the author can make it pay by what she writes in the rest of the book.