Do you read the last page first?

[Angela Stripes]

I used to always do that!! Then it became something to reassure myself with only if a character I liked was in mortal danger. The last time I did that was my first read through of Jane Eyre a few months ago.

[Afuglsan]

Sometimes. Occasionally I'm desperate enough in the middle of the book to read the last page just to be sure it all ends ok.

[Angela Stripes]

Sometimes. Occasionally I'm desperate enough in the middle of the book to read the last page just to be sure it all ends ok.

[nfdaniel85]

Omg! This is blasphemous *clutches pearls*
LOL

I do Google the plot of movie sometimes though ha!

[Camille Turner]

No, never! What I will do, however, is if I'm nearing the end of a chapter and whatever is going on is just too suspenseful, I may sometimes skip to the end of the chapter to see if it gets resolved or not and then go back and read the earlier pages.

[Sakilunamermaid]

Never, I have been tempted though. In some situations it would have helped for me to check where the book ended and the excerpt/ sneak peak to the next book started. Its definitely disappointing to think you have more book and equally disappointing is it to not have or have to wait for the sequel.

[toribyers13]

I don't! In fact, it's a weird pet peeve of mine to see someone doing this. I hate the idea of the surprise being ruined!

[todwyer01]

It depends I might read the last page if I get to excited and want to know in advance if a character is "killed off" I look to see if they appear at the end of the book, but you really should not do that with mystery books, especially Agatha Christie.

For those that have not yet read an Christie novel, most of her stories end (last page or so) with who the murderer is and what their motives were.

[revna01]

I don't even like reading the jacket synopsis for fear it provides too much information! I love to be completely surprised. I couldn't imagine reading the last page first.

[rnraa99]

I’ve only read the last page of a book whenever I get too excited about reading a book or when the tension/conflict in the book is too much for me too handle. It gives me a sense of catharsis.

[DATo]

Of course not. The author has written the book in the manner in which it is meant to be read. If the author wanted you to know the ending when you first open the book the author would present the last page first, if not, then it is MEANT to be read it in the chronology in which it is written. Sometimes the author DOES tell you the ending at the very beginning of the story, but that is the author's calculated intent and is choreographed in that manner for effect. Also, sometimes the ending is a surprise ending - one which you might not expect - and this is one of the things that makes the book good. Why run the risk of spoiling it, which, by the way, you won't realize you've already ruined until you have invested a lot of time reading?

[Masab Abdullah]

What is the use of reading the climax? It definitely destroys the fun

[Haute_Coffee]

Noooooooo! I hate blurbs that give away too much or reviews with unmarked spoilers. I love a book that can surprise me.

[Tbunde5]

The horror! I never read the end first. Otherwise why read the book at all if I already know how it ends? I do, however, always read a magazine from back to front. I do not know why-maybe satisfying that urge to peek?

[Shrabastee Chakraborty]

Used to do when I was younger. But now I am always on the alert so that I don't open or don't scroll down to the last page even by mistake. Though one of my habits is to open a page in the middle at random, even before starting to read. I catch a few random sentences which at the time do not make any sense. Then after I start reading and eventually read those sentences, I recognise them and this time can understand their contexts. This is just a weird habit of mine.