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by eastbound 1383 days ago
I often blame the book author for withholding information. For the same reason, if a series finishes each episode with a cliffhanger which doesn’t get resolved in the first minutes of the next episode, I consider it bad writing. I’ve seen series with 20 unanswered cliffhangers after 20 episodes, and I never want to experience this again.

A book which withholds information for the purpose of suspense, without it being natural for the story, is just a bad book.