SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

Ok, I know this sound weird but, I read the last sentence or two of a book before I even start it. Does anybody else do this or am i just one of the crazies? If you do, why do you think do it? I can think of no true justification for this for myself, except to confirm that the book ends for real, not just a series of blank pages. I like to know that the author put some sort of effort in putting a series of letters of on last pages. So I ask again does anybody else read the end of the book, just the last few sentences before actually finishing it?

I usually read the last couple of pages when I'm a couple of chapters into a book. I always have. I did it even as a teen reading Agatha Christie and other mysteries. I never worry about "spoilers." I'm more interested in how a book gets to a conclusion rather than what the conclusion is.

I usually only do that when I get really bored with a book, but want to find out what happens to one or another of the characters. It hasn't happened all that often.

I don't do it myself... but my mom does. I always thought that was strange but I guess she's not alone!

YAY! So nice to see others do this too. Sometimes I've ruined things for me, sometimes I do this with a book I'm bored with before I toss it as Steven does. But most times when a book is good the ending either doesn't make sense or it doesn't matter because as Sandi says, I want to take the journey.

I don't do this with movies, just with books. And often as I'm reading I'll flip to various areas towards the end.

Sometimes, by accident.

it's great to hear that I'm not alone(thanks Lori) but i don't even do it to a book that I'm bored with, just a tradition. I sometimes flip through the book when the/a-is chars are getting killed off to see if so and so is alive further on in the book, and that sometimes ruins the book for me. Thomas how exactly do you by accident read the end of the book? It must be some kind of accident!

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This is the weirdest thread going.

I'm more interested in how a book gets to a conclusion rather than what the conclusion is.

Then why read the conclusion first?

This is pretty weird.

Dov, there are often bonus materials at the back of a book: promos or maps or bios or family trees. I often flip back there to take a break or get some info. On the way, I see significant chunks of the ending. I don't know if you have this experience, but text can suck me in. If I read a sentence by accident, I may find myself reading to the end of the page before I remember what I was going for.