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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
As I mentioned in the GoT thread, I'm struck by the contrast between how people treat spoilers in books vs TV. Even though the Song of Ice and Fire books were enormous best-sellers before the TV show came out, back in those days it was a considered hugely ######y for a reader to spoil the books for another read. This was the case regardless of how long it was since the book came out. In 2008, no assumptions were made that anyone who was interested in the series had already finished Game of Thrones, even though it had been published 12 years ago by that time. When Dance with Dragons was released, the people who read it right away bit their tongue and did not spoil it for others.
Why the different approaches? You didn't see people who read Dance with Dragons in September 2011 say "well, the book has been out for two months now, so anyone who doesn't know what happened yet obviously doesn't care much anyway, so I'm under no obligation to avoid spoilers."
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Because...its a book? When you got together in sweater-vests over spiced punch by the fireplace in someone's living room to discuss the book it was naturally presumed that since you attended you had done the required reading?
How does someone spoil a book for someone else? If its on the internet you just dont go in the thread, if you're talking to someone about the book you make 'where you're at' clear from the outset.
Spoiling a book is a whole other ballgame because it isnt splattered all over the internet, or if it is its very localized.
After every episode of Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead the internet is awash with reactions and discussions that are difficult to avoid. I dont think books are in the same category, or if they are then not nearly to the same extent.
And if a Game of Thrones bookreader spoiled your bookreading then suck it up because thats just what those GoT bookreaders do.
