While reading suspense thrillers or mysteries do you read the end before you..

hi Kiran madam, once again you have changed your avatar,but i do not wish to change my username and avatar also,my another user name is Thisyarakshita, i have not read any English novels and i have read only Telugu detective novels of Madhu babu and Kommuri sambasiva rao,both are famous writers, i comple the novel and i never read the end before with out complete the novel,have a nice day

Hi Kiran! Quite Interesting post! I would not read the end page till I reach there page by page. I do not want to kill the charm of gradually knowing the secret. If I read the last page before reading the other pages, I may not like to read the entire story/Novel.

(hangs head in shame) yes, i am guilty of doing that. i seldom read fiction but often skip to the end to see what happened.

I have only ONCE read the end of the book before I finished it... I was really HATING the book and wanted to know if it was going to "pay off" in the end... It wasn't a suspense tho, it was what SHOULD'VE been my favorite kind of book - science fiction/time travel... But the end made so little sense I had to finish reading the darn book to find out how it got there... Honestly, it NEVER improved, but it did manage to make the story so that the end made sense, but it was one of the worst things I ever finished. I would read a chapter and then go and read a few pages further from the end to see if I could make sense out of it... I think the IDEA of the story was good, and the method of time travel interesting, but the hero was a jerk, the love interest was... well until the last few chapters, not that interesting, in fact, the ONLY person I liked was the guy who figured out the method of time travel and he got left in the first few chapters to follow the jerk...

I love for the book to build up.I do not skip around through the pages.I think it takes away from the story.Instead I read my book page by page.I get excited and read it all the way through until the end.

This is almost blasphemy for me! I'm in agreement with many of the other posters that the journey to the end should be part of the excitement of reading. You ARE talking about reading "suspense" so you need to build that suspense to the conclusion of the story or case. Of course, I can be a bit obsessive about things like this. I also must read a series of books in the correct order and not jump back and forth. I enjoy the gradual changes in the characters and to understand the background stories of the regular character. I admit I've sometimes gotten a book that is in the middle of the series because it was recommended to me, but if I like the book I then go back and begin with book one!! I even have a hard time stopping a book, even if I don't like it. I keep feeling that "it must get better by the end!". My husband makes fun of this when he hears me moaning that a still have x number of pages to go and it's just dragging. He says, "then quit", although he knows I won't!

I never read the back of the book first, or even peak at it. I don't like to ruin the surprise. I like to try to guess what will happen as I'm reading the book. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. That is what makes it fun though.

It depends on the book, the type of story or how well written it is. There are books that you know who the killer is a chapter into the book and you think there is no point in continuing, that is the type of book I may skip ahead, and if the killer is someone totally different, that I never suspected, I will read with a greater interest, to see how the author justifies their choice. Then there are several that I skip just to see what will happen next even though I do save the ending, to get the surprise at the end.

Yes! I always read the last chapter or last 3 pages of the book especially when I really want to know how the story will end up but feels so sleepy to read the whole book. So to have a peace of mind in my sleep I read the ending first. :D Like your friends it doesn't really matter to me. And it doesn't kill the excitement while reading the the book even though I already know how will it end ^^

I can't say that it's something that I've ever really done. I've always read books from start to finish. I much rather read a book from start to finish. I can understand why some want to read the end before reading the rest, but it's not the way that I prefer doing it.

hello kiran, i dont. i always read from the beginning. i feel that if i read the back, it would spoil the thrill in the story. have a nice day. ann

Hello Kiran ji, I never like to read last pages of books. Indeed every story have it's flow, so it interesting read in it's flow.

When I read the last chapter of a book of mystery or thriller, I at once lose the motivation to read all the preceding pages. So I really have to steel myself against the temptation to read the last chapter, unless I really don't have the time to read the entire book. Or if I can't afford to buy the book. So at the bookstore, if the storekeeper does not rebuke me, I just read the last chapter.

I could never read the end of a book before I had got there! For someone like me who reads a lot, I think that reading the end would completely ruin the whole book - what would be the point then of continuing to read if you already know the end, which in a thriller or a mystery is usually very unexpected and a but if a twist in the story! Its the whole excitement of getting to the end of a novel and finally finding out what happens that makes a book exciting and worthwhile! So personally, I could never do this.

I used to do this with books! I would be reading then I'd skip to the last chapter and read it! Such an anxious reader I am! It irritates one of my friends that I do this, they always tell me there's no point to it and I Am just going to ruin the story for myself. Ya know what? I do end up doing that too!

I skip all the way to the very last page and read the very last line or two. Although, I'm not so tempted to do this anymore after I did it with Orwell's 1984...It made the book five times as chilling to read through. D: And it isn't just suspense or mystery books--I do it with every book.

No way!!! Cheater!!!! Lmao. I have never done this. Ever. Because it would seriously spoil the suspense for me! Sure, the journey and twists and turns are important but what's MOST (usually) important is WHO DID IT!!

Hi :) I am not much in reading.. And also mostly i can't complete the novels. Give up after reading half.. But I am interested in reading suspense and mysteries kind of books. But I never read the last pages before completing starting part.