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>book has multiple prefaces
No one here actually reads all these right?

>> No.20188320

Depends on who wrote them.

>> No.20188325

>>20188320
What if I wrote one of those?

>> No.20188337

>>20188316

Prefaces, yes, they're by the author and could matter. Forewords/intros, some of them. Research who writes it. Confederacy of Dunces foreword was written by the man who got it published, and he relays an interesting little story about it I'm glad to have read.

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>>20188316
Dude, I read the copyright page too!

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>Editor's Note
>Foreword
>Preface to the American Edition
>Introduction
>Preface to the Third Italian Edition (1972)
>Introduction to the Italian Edition

>> No.20189085

>>20188316
I read the foreword and the preface to the current book I'm reading. Then again, they were each two pages and the entire book itself is less than 200.

>> No.20189095

>>20188316
I come back and read them after finishing the book, sometimes, if I feel so compelled. If it's just some dude jizzing his pants about how good the book is then I don't bother.

>> No.20189115

>>20188316
>No one here actually reads

>> No.20189428

>>20188316
I skim them