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13005836 No.13005836 [Reply] [Original]

>foreword
>not written by the author

>> No.13005857

I would be more likely to read an afterword. (I think my copy of 1984 had a good one.) Before I've read the book I'm not interested in what some guy has to say about it, because I won't know what he's talking about.

>> No.13005874

>>13005836
forewords are never written by the author are they

>> No.13006004
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>>13005836
>foreword
>modern author's take on what a dead author meant in this 100 year old text

>> No.13006011

>>13006004
what’s the controversy?

>> No.13006038

>rap album
>skits

>> No.13006047

>>13006011
They're generally pointless, often a bit masturbatory. "When he wrote this, it was really good. The world had no idea how good it was at first but here we are, years later. I thought it was good too. Ok go ahead and read now"
I only want the original author's writing. Why is it so hard to get a pure version of an old text these days? Stuff goes into the nteenth edition and gets filled with footnotes and other crapola.

>> No.13006051

>>13006038
what in the fuck was that kanye

>> No.13006067

>>13006047
>masturbatory
do you actually use this word?

>> No.13006074

>>13006067
Only on taiwanese water polo chatrooms.
It's fitting though.

>> No.13006183

>>13005857
Based

>> No.13006189

>>13005857
Big brained poster here

>> No.13006199
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13006199

>that cringy Neil Gayman foreword to Hitchhiker's Guide which he clearly based off Wikipedia

>> No.13006204

>>13006047
Footnotes are helpful, though.

>> No.13006208

>>13006051
nigga what the skits in cd are the best in the game

>> No.13006210

I want to start reading Tolkien but I don't want to read LotR. Is that a good idea?

>> No.13006252

>>13006210
You can read The Hobbit and The Silmarillion and a couple other stories like Beren and Lúthien.

>> No.13006276

>>13006252
That is kind of what I was thinking. I stumbled on Men of the West yt channel and it made all the Legendarium stuff so enticing. I want to sit down and read the LotR but I am a brainlet

>> No.13006285

>>13006210
Just read it.

>> No.13006289

>>13005874
hahahahahahahah i wish i was a girl so i could cuck you hard boyo

>> No.13006301

>>13006276
It's fairly easy, bro. I'm an ESLfag and I'm having a blast reading Tolkien.

>> No.13006306

>>13006285
>>13006301
Ok anon I trust you

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>>13006199
>Hitchhiker's Guide

>> No.13006332

>>13006319
It's a fairly enjoyable piece of light entertainment, I must admit.