Don’t you check the end of the book to make sure she lives? To find out how the romance turns out? To see if you’re signing up for a cliffhanger ending?
I think I’m in the minority here, but I read all through the book, in a very non-linear fashion. I inspect the ending, check for a glossary, read about the author, search for maps and other images, and so forth. I’m also forever flipping the cover over to review the art as the story progresses.
What about you? Are you a cover-to-cover linear reader, or are you a dump-out-all-the-contents-to-see-what-you-got reader?
I have to look if I am afraid something bad will happen to someone I like in the book!! Sometimes I can resist it. I also go back to read over a reference again sometimes, and I usually read the acknolwedgments at the end. I usually skip introductions though, even for stuff I am interested in. Story first!
also, is that Hugo Cabret? I love that book so much!
Yeah! I had a lot of fun reading that one! Did you note all the film references at the back?
Sometimes I read the last line of the book, and then mull it over as I read the book from beginning to end, trying to figure out how we got to that last line. Sometimes that last sentence is a spoiler, but most oft times, it is not, and remains a mystery until the final chapter.