I do not like surprises of any kind, be it birthday surprises or surprises in books and movies. I always read the plot of the book or movie before starting it.
Knowing the plot never affected me, I laughed, cried, loved, got scared, felt sick, felt excited and lived through the narrative never the less. I guess the way the story is written appealed to me more than the plot. I have never regretted being this way until yesterday when I picked this book, of course after reading the plot on Wikipedia. (Damn even the wiki plot was beautiful)
This book was beautiful in my most favourite kind of way, by being simple.

And for the first time, I felt maybe if I had not known the plot I might have experienced this book differently, but I guess I will never know.

Anyways, this is an extremely simple, beautiful and short read :)