I’m just about to the end of a book called “Judas Unchained”, the second part of Peter F Hamilton’s epic “Commonwealth Saga”. Almost two thousand pages, five or six main story threads running concurrently and a nicely building mystery about to be solved…and I spoil it for myself.
There I was in bed (steady now) reading and I put the book down for a moment. This being my luck we’re talking about here the damn thing slipped and fell open at a crucial page and before I could stop myself, I had read a big spoiler. Seriously, if I were Martin Sheen I’d be calling it a yeeeuuuge spoiler. Then I couldn’t stop myself – I read the whole page and pretty much gutted the aforementioned mystery that I just spent 1500 pages getting into.
Damn my internal spoiler addict. Damn you to hell!
February 8th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Dude – that was stupid. You have got to show more self-control.
Oh, and the butler did it.
February 9th, 2006 at 5:43 am
Sounds like something I would do. It takes conscious effort not to flip to the last page sometimes.
How is that story? Have you read the Naked God trilogy? I loved that. I have Pandora’s Star sitting here, but I haven’t gotten to it yet. Hamilton’s planning to do another trilogy next, which should be exciting.
February 9th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
The alien did it.
February 11th, 2006 at 2:04 am
I know, believe me – “stupid” is just not the word for it! :-)
MCF I have indeed read the Naked God trilogy…in fact, that was my first taste of Peter F Hamilton’s work: after that I pretty much became a fan (except for the Greg Mandel stuff: never cared for that so much). I like the fact that he creates societies, technologies and backgrounds in such detail: makes it easy to lose yourself in the story.
Another trilogy? Do you have any details at all? Sounds great…
Oh and Jerry turns out you’re right: the alien did do it! :-D