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Anonymous Tue Dec 30 21:04:45 2014 No.5929981 [Reply] [Original]

I never read the Introduction to a book. It just seems risky, like something will be spoiled.

What about you guys?

>>	kitty !kitty/EnNg Tue Dec 30 21:08:01 2014 No.5929993 >>5929981 sometimes it's worth to be read after but usually they are better to be ignored completely, they are often full of annoying opinions

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 21:12:00 2014 No.5930014 >>5929981 Read it after.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 21:13:33 2014 No.5930019 What about prefaces?

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 21:17:32 2014 No.5930036
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I've developed the autistic habit of reading every part of nearly every book. Introductions, forwards, appendixes—everything. It's more time consuming, obviously, but I feel like I've learned a lot more than I would have otherwise.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 21:19:56 2014 No.5930045 >>5929981 B & N classics' intros always spoil important parts

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 21:20:48 2014 No.5930048 >>5929981 If it's by the author or actual translator I will, but third-party I'll read after.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 21:22:06 2014 No.5930053 File: 59 KB, 531x471, absolutely haram.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] caring about spoilers strongly implies reading for plot

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 21:24:48 2014 No.5930061 File: 173 KB, 1480x690, 1419747193447.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930053

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 21:46:20 2014 No.5930121 >>5930014 This. Then re-read the intro before you re-read the book at some point in the future.

>>	傘 !zYHpFDC98U Tue Dec 30 21:54:22 2014 No.5930152 File: 172 KB, 681x628, Prose Pixie.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930061

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:07:04 2014 No.5930184 >>5930152 >extremely mediocre

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:07:36 2014 No.5930185 >>5930152 >weeb shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:10:49 2014 No.5930200 >>5929981 mirin' the kawase hasui

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:11:55 2014 No.5930203 File: 246 KB, 1480x690, CORN FATHER.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930152 take your corncobby chronicles out of here, prose pixie

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:12:02 2014 No.5930204 >woodblock prints of foreign views barbarian pls go

>>	H.Q.S.S.G Tue Dec 30 22:12:20 2014 No.5930206 >>5930152 rapes prose pixie who's extremely mediocre now bitch

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:12:45 2014 No.5930208 Most of the time it's just something along of the lines of "This guy did some important shit and I really like his work so I'm writing a brief opinion piece/maybe 1-page biography on the guy so you can understand the context of his work better".

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:13:02 2014 No.5930210 >>5930203 'please no, corn father'

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:13:17 2014 No.5930212 >>5930200 I'm from DC actually. The cherry blossoms were a gift from Japan believe it or not. And we even have a cherry blossom festival when they bloom

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:14:21 2014 No.5930217 File: 483 KB, 1363x2000, tengu.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930204 ukiyo-e & shin-hanga expert to the rescue

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:17:00 2014 No.5930225 >>5930045 THIS

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:17:49 2014 No.5930229 >>5930045 "Mersault's execution suggests" -.-

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:28:43 2014 No.5930278 >>5930217 post more pls, i love this shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:36:45 2014 No.5930309 File: 354 KB, 941x1400, boat in sunset.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930278

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:37:46 2014 No.5930313 File: 285 KB, 930x1400, japp.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930309

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:37:53 2014 No.5930315 >>5930278 second this chink shit is so pretty

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:38:47 2014 No.5930319 File: 98 KB, 665x441, sekishozan.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930313

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:39:53 2014 No.5930322 File: 691 KB, 1361x2000, koitsu.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930319

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:40:55 2014 No.5930330 File: 194 KB, 800x547, koitsu2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930322

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:41:55 2014 No.5930334 File: 98 KB, 1059x712, sunset from lake sai.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930330

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:42:57 2014 No.5930338 File: 418 KB, 1000x1495, hasui4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930334

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:43:58 2014 No.5930343 File: 135 KB, 1089x731, yoshida1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930338

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:45:00 2014 No.5930348 File: 567 KB, 1364x2000, cherry and castle.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930343 should we stick with 20th shin-hanga or go more primitive to the 19th/18th century ukiyo-e?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:46:01 2014 No.5930353 i read them for academic texts and just kept the habit up for fiction. it's interesting and i can tell when something is an opinion or not (thanks art history).

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:47:44 2014 No.5930360 >>5930348 go back earlier, if you don't mind

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:47:56 2014 No.5930361 File: 42 KB, 363x500, azuma gorge.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930348

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:48:44 2014 No.5930366 >>5930348 Any shin-hanga artbooks you'd recommend?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:49:03 2014 No.5930368 File: 1.94 MB, 2258x1110, Takiyasha_the_Witch_and_the_Skeleton_Spectre.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930360 things are about to get 2spooky

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:51:08 2014 No.5930377 File: 580 KB, 1314x1930, hiroshige.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930368

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:52:25 2014 No.5930383 File: 460 KB, 1031x1529, hiroshige 36 selected flowers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930377

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:53:40 2014 No.5930391 File: 443 KB, 2000x1346, mont.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930383

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:54:40 2014 No.5930395 >>5930366 PLEASE RESPOND

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:54:43 2014 No.5930396 File: 828 KB, 1600x1116, dream of the fisherman's wife.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930391 lewd

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 23:00:03 2014 No.5930412
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>>5930366
oh oops
one book which is a great mixture of both ukiyo-e and shin hanga is "ukiyo-e, art of the Japanese print" by fred harris

if you can get them, definitely buy the collected works of yoshida hiroshi and kawase hasui, although they are rare (I have to use the library to find them)
yoshida travelled all over the world so his prints are not always Japanese

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 23:02:05 2014 No.5930421 File: 1.40 MB, 3829x1901, kuniyoshi.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930396 >anime before it was cool 53 stations of tokaido imagined as cats lel

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 23:05:47 2014 No.5930434 File: 125 KB, 438x700, yoshitoshi.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930421 Japan's answer to wanderer over the sea of fog

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 23:07:40 2014 No.5930443 >>5930434 not feelsy enough

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 23:08:57 2014 No.5930452 File: 36 KB, 423x600, yoshitoshi2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930443 robot people have no 'feels'

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 23:11:15 2014 No.5930460 File: 623 KB, 1728x2418, kuniyoshi2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930452 >you will never kill someone with a katana thrust with the force of the sun

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 23:14:31 2014 No.5930472 File: 564 KB, 2000x1004, kyosai.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930460 this reminds me of martin's "the great day of his wrath" mixed with turner's "the slave ship"

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 23:16:01 2014 No.5930478 >>5930472 i think it is bed time moominanons it's 4:16am here

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 23:25:15 2014 No.5930512 File: 2.59 MB, 2362x1181, kato-kiyomasa-hunting-tigers-in-korea-during-the-imjim-war.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5930478 a parting gift goodnight

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