I have this weird habit when reading books.

[RevolutionaryActs]

After I get into the book, sometimes it's takes a couple chapters, other times only a couple pages. But after I get into it I flip to the back and read the last word on the last page. Anyone else do that? Or am I just weird.. well, I know I'm weird, but am I weird because of this? :P

[caty]

1. I don't.

But, I know a few people who will read the last chapter first---which makes no sense to me.

[RevolutionaryActs]

2. I could never go that far.

I'll stick with just the one word. :P

[LoZoccolo]

3. My weird thing is that I go to the last page and note the page number.

Then every now and then when I get through reading a bunch I'll be like "ok, I'm 1/3rd done now". I keep mentally calculating a rough fraction of how far I'm through the book.

[RevolutionaryActs]

4. I do that too!

:o

[graywarrior]

5. Man, I thought you were weird before you even posted this

Now, I know you're weird. The last word. Figures. Always has to get the last word.

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. The last word of the book I'm reading now is "father"

:P

[graywarrior]

7. Well, thanks for sharing that. Let me go see what the last word in the book I'm reading is.

[graywarrior]

8. Last word in my book is "next."

[RevolutionaryActs]

9. Yes, and tell me what book it is too.

:bounce:

[graywarrior]

11. Middlesex.

The position I'd like between Lukas and Bob.

[RevolutionaryActs]

13. Oh my

:spray: :rofl:

[billyskank]

21. In truth it's a totally boring place

:)

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. I always break down and read the last chapter...

as Harry said in "When Harry met Sally"...it would be horrible to die and not know how the book ended.

[RevolutionaryActs]

12. That's bad.

You're bad.



Although I'll probably do that when the last Harry Potter book comes out. :o :silly:

[graywarrior]

14. You wouldn't!

[RevolutionaryActs]

15. I gots to know what happens!!

THIS IS HUGH!2 I"M SERIES HERE!!!1@!@!!@21!@!@


:o

[graywarrior]

16. You're a moran.

[RevolutionaryActs]

17. We're screwn.

:o

[graywarrior]

18. Two screwn morans.

[thefool_wa]

19. Weird, yes. Alone, no.

I have been known to go to the back and read the whole last paragraph.

I stopped doing this a while ago, not sure why.

[RevolutionaryActs]

24. I don't know...

but now that I know so many people do that, I might start. :silly:

[billyskank]

20. You realise you could have made this a copycat

of LaraMN's "Am I the only one who eats like this?" :

Am I the only one who reads like this?

:)

[RevolutionaryActs]

22. Awww shit!

I have failed the lounge. :cry:

[billyskank]

31. ...

:hug:

[Left Is Write]

23. Yes, that is weird.

I will look to see how many pages there are, but I carefully avoid reading ANYTHING on the last page.

[RevolutionaryActs]

25. Welp, one more thing on the long list of how Rev is weird.

:silly:

[Roon]

26. My brother uses a highlighter on everything he reads

even novels. Now that is weird!

[thefool_wa]

27. agreed. n/t

[RevolutionaryActs]

28. And wrong!

The poor, poor books. :cry:

[rockymountaindem]

29. Yes

I do that all the time. Just the last word, or sometimes the last sentence. It's kind of a forbidden pleasure, you know?

[RevolutionaryActs]

30. Exactly.

Glad to know I'm not alone. :hi:

[rockymountaindem]

32. Me too!

:hi:

[Flaxbee]

33. I read just enough of the last few pages to know how it ends.

And like you, it can be anywhere from 2 pages to 50 pages in, I'll still flip to the end and see what's happened. Hard to resist. I think, especially if I like the characters in the book, I want to make sure they're OK - maybe that's weird.

And if it's a mystery series or something with many recurring charcters, I'll check to see if the author has bumped any of them off. Like in the Kinsey Milhone Sue Grafton (author) books, I worry that Henry, Kinsey's really cool but elderly landlord, dies. So I have to check with each released book to make sure he's still alive at the end.

:shrug: