Over Before It Begins

i just started to read the plague by camus. i bought a sort of anthology of some of his works; the plague, the fall and some essays. i normally don't do this, but i read the introduction. and i shouldn't have. the lousy bastard gave away what appears will be a key element to the plague. the point of the introduction is to introduce, not to ruin the novel i'm about to read. never again. as nice guy eddie says in reservoir dogs, "first things fuckin' last." should've known better. now i'm going to have to try to put it out of my head, which of course is completely impossible. thanks, intro writer. i really appreciate it. ever know someone who would skip to the end of the book to see what happened? that's not me. i don't want everything laid out for me. i prefer to think, to unravel, to question. no need to spell it all out. give us a little mystery, eh? sorry, i've been watching the bbc version of the office. catchin' a bit of the lingo as it were. damn. i'll stop now.