Just had a book spoiled by a footnote and I’m honestly livid

By AcarusBrisk

I’m only on page 26 and there’s already a footnote that brings up some small detail and basically throws doubt on the main character’s guilt, even to the point of wondering if they should’ve been executed. And yeah, besides spoiling things, that kind of interpretation is gonna mess with how I read the rest. Like come on. I know it’s a classic and some people read it for “scholarly” reasons, but it’s not like nobody’s reading it for what happens. Plus there weren’t any earlier footnotes warning that it was gonna turn into this. If the book weren’t just around 100 pages, I’d probably stop. Two thumbs down to whoever wrote the introduction and the footnotes.