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13349407 No.13349407 [Reply] [Original]

You crack open a new book and are ready to dig in, but instead you're faced with forwards by various editors and translators, as well as acknowlegement pages and prefaces. What do you do?

>> No.13349413

>>13349407
>book has introduction
>spoils the whole story and gives an interpretation of the meaning behind it

literally what is wrong with publishers

>> No.13349415

>>13349407
skim to see if they're saying anything relevant

>> No.13349433

Skip for fiction, case-by-case for nonfiction

>> No.13349457

Wait until the preface spoils some part of the book, then skip it

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>>13349407
I always check out the editors' and translators' pages on wikipedia if they have one

>> No.13349461

>>13349407
Read all of them and then put the book down. Paraphrase them in my own patterns of speech when talking about the book to others.

>> No.13349465

Skip!

>> No.13349504

>>13349407
introduction is there so you can recite key points to other people to seem like you've read the book

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>>13349407
>Reading the introduction ever, under any circumstances

>> No.13349804

>>13349460
I really hate this meme.