I’m a person who hates to know what is going to happen before it happens.  I don’t sneak to find out what my Christmas presents are or struggle not to give others their presents early because I can’t wait for their reaction.  I don’t have to know everything everyone else knows and I often forget to tell friends things that they consider a big deal.  I was born, by some strange twist of fate, without the nosey gene.  (This often gets me into trouble as what I consider minding my own business, others assume is a lack of interest or me not caring.  Which is not the case, I assure you.)

In surfing around some blogs last week, I came across a little snippet about the book Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.  I have this book in the TBR and even started it once.  However, I was also trying to write and this woman is so darn good, she was killing my confidence.  So I put it down.  I’ll get back to it when I think I can handle the awesome that is SEP. 

What I didn’t realize is that the blog I’d found was about endings.  I’d read the entire bit about how the book ended before I realized it.  Now, it didn’t really spoil the book for me, I mean, I know they get their HEA.  But still, it was more than I prefer to know ahead of time.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last eight months or so, you know Stephanie Meyer is the latest publishing superstar and her Twilight series about Bella and her teen, vampire love-interest, Edward, is the smash, must-read of the year.  Recently, a version of a book Ms. Meyer had been writing, a re-write version of the first book from a different character POV, was leaked through the internet.  The fall out has been interesting.  I’ve heard everything from Ms. Meyer leaked the book herself (which I don’t believe) to one of the stars of the upcoming Twilight movie leaked the pages.  No matter who leaked them, they got out and now Ms. Meyer is supposedly not going to finish or publish the book (based on what she wrote on her website last I checked.  Sorry if that has changed since I last looked.)

My question is simple – how do you feel about spoilers?  Are you one of those people who read the ending first (and should be flogged!…lol)? Do you scratch and claw to get a much anticipated book as soon as possible?  And what would you do if something you poured your heart into, that you loved and couldn’t wait for readers to enjoy, got hijacked before you were ready?