Ah, but that can backfire on you. Here's an example.Just give me enough information to decide whether it's worthwhile, and nothing more. Sometimes just the concept is enough, such as "Jurassic Park"!
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Ah, but that can backfire on you. Here's an example.Just give me enough information to decide whether it's worthwhile, and nothing more. Sometimes just the concept is enough, such as "Jurassic Park"!
A trailer can whet your appetite or get you all hot & bothered for nothing.
Or just mislead you.
Take a bow: 28 Days Later/28 Weeks Later, Inglorious Basterds, Aliens
Hang your head in shame: Prometheus, Reign of Fire.
So glad I didn't miss you: As Good as it Gets.
I am pretty sure Stephen King wrote about this affliction (what you described above) and basically said "Shame! Shame!"With books, a couple sentences of synopsis is usually enough. I once knew a person who would read the last page of a book before starting the book. That's insane to me!
Movies, I like a few teaser trailers, but that's all (I don't GO to the movies unless I take the kids...last non-Pixar movie I watched in a theater was when I took my daughter to see the "Carrie" remake).
I am not a TV watcher at all. Next show I'll watch will be in 2016 when "Downton Abbey" starts again here.
Didn't he say it was his mother that did that and he used to go up to her and say something like, 'Mum, that's cheating!'I am pretty sure Stephen King wrote about this affliction (what you described above) and basically said "Shame! Shame!"
(perhaps it was in his book "On Writing" or maybe "Danse Macabre"?
Now who wouldn't want a muskrat out wonderin' about and scatterin' posts?It depends. I keep reading older and older shi...stuff. This dang magic bookpad doohickey, it tells all about all kinds of books. Like them Amazons, der...people wanna review some obscure 17th century German gothic tome or penny dreadful collection, it gets me all excited and I buy the damn thing. Usually never as cool as these cats make em sound. But sometimes you strike gold. But you never really know what yer getting into reading that old crap.
Or take all that obscure seventies trash, the Goodwill shelves are fulla em. Used bookstores around here have went the way of trolley cars and butch wax, but there used to be a fine one, where I found Earl Thompson's GARDEN OF SAND and TATOO. Had NO idea what those were about save for the cover blurbs--no pics on the covers, just blurbs (my copy of TATOO didn't have the middle finger cover). Anybody's read them books knows the sleazy, dark carnival ride I took through depression-era and wartime America, lord have mercy. I eventually found DEVIL TO PAY on eBay, thus completing the trilogy, but those first two epic bricks I plucked virtually sight-unseen from the used book shelf, never imagining the treasure I'd find within.
Yeesh, I'm startin to get like ol Walter with the rambling scatter posts.