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Originally Posted by andyh2000
Bit late to this thread but I just had to add my experience. I was waiting in the queue at the cinema to see William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (the one with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes) and made an off-hand comment to the person I was with about the fate of the two main characters at the end of the story. As you can probably guess she didn't know the story and I felt terrible. So even 400 years is too recent for spoilers...
Andrew
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We do get some younger people on MobileRead who may not yet have read the classics or seen older films. I figure it's just common courtesy to warn of spoilers ahead if you are reviewing a book of any age. How long does it really take to type "spoilers ahead"?
I once clicked on a thread in the Recommendations forum where someone asked if a specific book series was worth reading. The first several posts were general comments about whether it was good/well written/recommended. Then someone came into the thread and with no spoiler warning or tag, stated that he/she had stopped reading the series after [a specific thing one of the characters did]. As a result I didn't read the series, not because of what the character did but because I would know from the beginning what was coming.
As has been said upthread, a discussion thread is not the same thing as a review. If a thread is labeled as "discussion of Book by John Doe" I would know not to read the thread if I didn't want spoilers.