NP--here comes the judge

[Jasper Fidget]

> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of Ghetta Life
> 
> >From: The Great Quail <quail at libyrinth.com>
> >
> > > From _Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West_
> > > By Cormac McCarthy
> > > THE END
> > >    --P. 335, Vintage International edition (1992)
> >
> >Goddammit, that better not have been the end of Blood Meridian, a book I
> >have been wanting to read for a while now, and planned on starting soon.
> >Really -- to post the last paragraph of a contemporary novel? That would
> be
> >crass indeed, sir. Have you heard of the word "Spoiler?"
> 
> I might be perverse, but I often read a bit of the very end of a novel
> before I start it, especially if it's a long one.  It's never seemed to
> spoil anything so far...  I liked this last one.  Maybe I'll read the
> whole
> thing soon.
> 
> Ghetta
> 

I did that once with Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians.  Big mistake!