The Ultimate Spoiler?

**JakeEpping** · 3 Weeks Ago

As someone who has lived in Dallas for over 30 years, I loved this book. It really captured the feeling of the city and
the culture of Texas, and was an amazing love story to boot.

I do, however, have a major problem with the choice to include on the inside cover, "JFK ESCAPES ASSASSINATION,
FIRST LADY ALSO OK", an insert of a newspaper article from the Dallas Times Herald.

Is this not one of the biggest spoilers in the history of literature?

As you whom have read the book already know, this exact headline comes true and appears in the book later.

Why reveal what is going to happen on the inside cover of a novel? Why put a spoiler in the front of the book?

Does anyone agree?

Yours truly,
Jake Epping

**Walter Oobleck** · 3 Weeks Ago

I don't believe anything until that no-spin yapper on Fox has weighed in on the issue. Here I stand. I can do no other.
Have the hardcover and the dust-jacket does say that...on the back...but on the front, it says: JFK Slain in Dallas LBJ Takes Oath
One of those Dewey Beats Truman moments.
I like turtles.

**Spideyman** · 3 Weeks Ago

One does not realize this is a spoiler until well into the book. Just because the headline of the newspaper is on the cover does not necessarily mean it will happen within the book. Many book covers give "false impressions". The premiss was could one change events in the past. Thus, the headline could have been a "tease" or even a "mis direct" to the reader. One had to continue reading to see the "effect" of said headline.

**Sundrop** · 3 Weeks Ago

I didn't think about it being a spoiler at all. The basic "what if" synopsis of the book was well publicised before publication.
Like Walt's book, my book also has the JFK Slain article on the front, and the JFK Escapes article on the back.

Welcome to the MB....see ya around

**Shasta** · 3 Weeks Ago

I agree. I don't think it's a secret that the point of the book was to go back and save JFK. I think it gave a very good indication of what could happen in the book without even having to read it. And Walter is correct - it says the exact opposite on the front.

**nate_watkins** · 3 Weeks Ago

And also...

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**Shasta** · 3 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by nate_watkins

And also...

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Isn't it already?

**JakeEpping** · 3 Weeks Ago

It may be a "what-if" or a teaser, but the appearance of such a cover greatly increases the chance of this event actually happening in the book.

I think a better cover would have just been a picture of the motorcade, with no headline....

Does anyone know if Stephen King approved of this cover, or does he not have control of that?

**FlakeNoir** · 3 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by JakeEpping

It may be a "what-if" or a teaser, but the appearance of such a cover greatly increases the chance of this event actually happening in the book.

I think a better cover would have just been a picture of the motorcade, with no headline....

Does anyone know if Stephen King approved of this cover, or does he not have control of that?

I don't have an answer to this right now sorry, as Ms. Mod is away on vacation until May 1st.