![]() ![]() These are books-gripping, great and fun, but still-that can be spoiled merely by being read.įates and Furies is not quite either kind of book, but that is not surprising. Whereas other compelling books- Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train-fail to similarly necessitate another reading. And then the reader goes on to pick the book up again in order to discover the answer to how did she do that, compelled by the crafting that goes into the kind of book that will never be read the same way twice. ![]() ![]() ![]() In which the reader gets to the twist, puts the book down and asks, “How did she do that?” When we aren’t even aware that a twist is coming. There are books-one of my favourite books, We Need to Talk About Kevin is one a more recent example is Karma Brown’s debut, Come Away With Me also Kate Atkinson’s wonder A God in Ruins-in which the element of surprise is an integral part of the reading experience. But like all good rules, there are exceptions, and I got to thinking about them after reading Miller’s review. A line I delighted in when I first came upon it that a good book can’t be spoiled is something I’ve long insisted on. “…consider sacrificing surprise, the lowest form of literary pleasure, for the much richer satisfaction the first half of this novel can deliver when read in light of the second,” writes Laura Miller in her review of Lauren Groff’s new novel, Fates and Furies, in which spoilers are revealed. ![]()
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