I am listening to St. Louis On The Air right now, and Don Marsh is interviewing Anna Quindlen. They were talking about her newest book, and Don said something to the effect of "I don't want to say too much about it, because I don't want to give away the ending." Anna agreed, and commented that she had recently been somewhere where she announced the following: "Everyone knows at the end of Anna Karenina that she [xxxx SPOILER xxxx]. And I saw a woman in the audience with a horrified look on her face, and I realized I had just ruined Tolstoy for her!"
Here's the thing, Anna. Because you just said, on air, what happens at the end of Anna Karenina, you also just spoiled it for everyone listening who has not read it. Including me. Didn't you learn your lesson the first time? Here, I'll help: stop announcing what happens at the end of books!
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