Thursday Thoughts #10: Spoilers

Thursday Thoughts is a weekly discussion meme hosted by Ashley on her blog Ok, Let's Read.

Join in on the discussion and check out Ashley's blog for the discussion topics and dates.

This weeks topic: July 17: Spoilers - Are you someone who likes to go into books blind or are a few spoilers nice to know? Does hearing spoilers before reading a book ruin the experience for you? Have you ever been spoiled by someone? Do you think there should be a policy or rule about spoilers where you can talk about something openly after x amount of years?

What a controversial topic this week.

When I first started blogging, I wrote spoilers in my reviews...but before you get mad at me, I MARKED them as spoilers. And in that section would be ANYTHING that I thought mentioned anything in the book. I was so worried about accidentally ruining something for someone. So anything and everything I pretty much marked as a spoiler.

But as I have slowly grown a little as a Blogger, I have been able to write my reviews and known a bit more about what is spoilerish and what is just known from the synopsis. (At least I think I have gotten better.)

With that being said I have a like-hate relationship with Spoilers.

I personally don't want to ruin anything for anybody. (I tend to hope that most people feel this way.)

And I personally hate being spoiled for Books, Movies, and TV shows. (For example: I found out the ending for The Sixth Sense before seeing the movie...back when it was just out like on VHS or DVD)

But then there are times when I am watching a TV show and I get so anxious that I will look stuff up and spoil things for myself. Then I tend to get mad at myself for not waiting.

BACK TO THE TOPIC NOW:

I usually go in pretty blind. I tend to not even read the synopsis before starting the book. Sometimes I know a little bit, but I like to be surprised.

Hearing spoilers doesn't necessarily RUIN the book for me, but it will make me sad and disappoint me.
I did accidently see THE spoiler for Allegiant while I was reading it, because I saw all the horrible low star reviews for the book, so I clicked on the reviews and THERE WAS THE SPOILER IN ALL CAPS LIKE THIS.
Seriously!
WHY?!?
That person didn't need to do that. I wasn't searching for major spoilers, I just was wondering why so many people were giving it 1 star.
I still read the book and wrote up my own (Spoilers included but marked accordingly) review.
**And if you haven't read that book, sorry that you might not know the spoiler that I am talking about...***

I have been spoiled a lot recently for TV shows on Twitter and once by liking the Facebook page for a show.
Now I am trying not to pay attention to those shows since I am so far behind. I was pretty upset about being spoiled at the time. But I've since gotten over it.

I am not sure how I feel about making a rule for being able to openly talk about spoilers after X amount of time.

But I do like talking about spoilerish things about books with others that have also read the books and won't be spoiled.

After I first started by blog, I thought it would be cool to start a Spoiler Discussion chat group, where each month we could discuss a new book and have a Skype chat, where everyone included would be others that have read the book and then we can all gush and talk about the spoilerish things without ruining it for anyone.
But I wasn't sure if there was already something like this being done, or if anyone would participate.

I think I got off on tangents a lot for this post. Hopefully everyone can make sense of the points I was trying to get across.