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Originally Posted by rkomar
My biggest beef with TOC for fiction is that it can contain spoilers if it has titles for the chapters. I'd rather not see those at all if I'm starting a new book.
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I find it teasers, not spoilers. If I see that there's a chapter "The death of X", I wonder, who is X, why does he have to die, how will that death occur? And while reading the part before that chapter, I will probably get to know X, maybe start to like him and really don't want him to die, so I'll start dreading the time I'll get to that one chapter. Or I'll hate him so much, I'd have loved to help in killing him and start anticipating that chapter.
And a TOC at the end of the book, I've never understood. Just leave it out completely then...