When You Realize You've Missed Something
Do you ever get partway through a book and realize that you seem to have missed a crucial detail or set of details from the beginning of the story? If yes, do you: A. continue reading anyway and assume that you will catch on to what you’ve missed? B. skim through the earlier pages of the book and hope to find whatever detail(s) you had missed? C. completely start the book over again from the beginning? I’ve found that I most frequently go with option A, because I figure that if the book is good I will end up enjoying it even if I’ve missed some details about the plot. Spoiler alert: I read Infinite Jest, completely misunderstood a good portion of the plot, and actually thought that a character had died when he really didn’t. I still loved the book, and I give myself a pass for that one considering what Infinite Jest is. Any time that I have tried option B I’m pretty sure I have failed to find the exact detail that I needed and ended up going back to option A. I think la