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19561726 No.19561726 [Reply] [Original]

>Introduction
>Spoils the entire fucking book

>> No.19561755

Why do some jerkdicks feel the need to go full autism with the introductions? I get it, you're an expert, but I'm not, and unless you expect me to have read the book before reading the book how will I gain anything from you delving into the complexities of something I HAVEN'T EVEN READ YET
Spoiling a narrative is even worse, but very similar, it's as if they expected you to have read it already or read the full Wikipedia page or something stupid

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>>19561726
>Introductions?
>I've no need for outside input

>> No.19561808
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>he read the introduction before reading the book

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>>19561726
I only read author's acknowledgements

>> No.19561831

>>19561755
There probably is money in it.

>> No.19561859

I'd like to write a dedication advising the reader to disregard any introduction interpolated into my book. It could be in a joking way, or else some boilerplate type thing that anyone could re-use.

>> No.19562413
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I guess you only have to get a book spoiled once to never read another introduction again

>> No.19562417

>>19561726
>reading for the plot
how many times do we have to tell you that this is braindead

>> No.19562484

I was reading Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) and the introduction to the edition I had starts off by telling you to read the introduction AFTER reading the book.

Pretty courteous if you ask me.

>> No.19562493

It's common knowledge what an intro to a fiction book is for (celebrity or scholarly work) unless you mean a math textbook in which case gj

>> No.19562633

>introduction keeps stressing how racist the author was

>> No.19562867

>>19561726
Name literally one book where this is true

>> No.19563012

>>19562867
Textbooks?

>> No.19563029

> Intro of book by great author
> Tactfully shits on all the other authors in his field

>> No.19563224

>>19561755
>read the full Wikipedia page or something stupid
I unironically do this

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>>19562633
I read an introduction to a Lovecraft compilation that didn't even mention racism once

>> No.19564088

>>19561726
>>19562867
Stoner by John Williams. The introduction spoils the ENTIRE fucking plot. thankfully i skipped it

>> No.19564244

>>19562867
Blood Meridian, I don't read intros anymore

>> No.19564277

>>19561808
>Publisher's Note
>Introduction
>Translator's Note
>Author's Note
>Translators Introduction to the 1909 Edition
>Author's Notes to the 1909 Edition
>Dedication
>Epigraph
>Prologue
>Actual fucking story 140 pages later

>> No.19564462

Always skip introductions. Get on with the story. If you really like it go back and read the nonsense some other guy wrote after you have finished.

>> No.19564566

The introduction to Dream Story (or Traumnovelle) by Arthur Schnitzler is complete misdirection.

This is the book that was made into Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick. It is unambigiously about satanic ritual abuse by elites, including human sacrifices. It isn't about the fact that the author was brought up Jewish and whether it made him angsty being a partial outsider. It isn't an analogy. It is about real events and it is very cheeky of the introduction to try to spin an alternative narrative before you have even read the book.

https://booksvooks.com/scrolablehtml/dream-story-pdf-arthur-schnitzler.html?page=9

>> No.19564601

>Read introduction
>Recommends starting the book from 3 chapters in and then going back to the beginning

>> No.19564614

>>19562417
The midwit has spoken.

>> No.19564671

>>19562867
Steppenwolfe
Tender Is the Night
Stoner
Kokoro
Catch-22

>> No.19564683

>>19564277
Filtered

>> No.19564800

>>19562867
the plague

>> No.19566016

>>19562484
Why not put it at the end of the book?

>> No.19566027

>>19562867
Moby Dick