/lit/ - Literature

>read book once
>write a preface on my own
>skip preface

>>15828848
Holy fucking based

skips to the conclusion

>read the wikipedia entry
>gather info from reviewers and threads
>watch YouTube videos
>come to gaining knowledge in just a view shitposts vs 1000 pages

>skips any foreword, introduction, notes, or otherwise any material not written by the author of the book but rather by academia hacks

>>15828838
>>skips the preface
yes, you're retarded if you don't for fiction

>Author shouts out the squad in his preface

>reading foreword
>berates the writer out loud, saying that no one will ever write a foreword for whatever he has written and that I'm only reading this because he's parasitizing on a greater work
>spit on each page before turning it

>>15828838
what good could a preface do?

>skip the first chapters and read the rest of the book without context, come back to the start of the book after finishing it
This is a mystery novel now

>book from greeks and romans
>preface is bigger than the primary source

>skips the first chapter

Nothing ever of note happens in the first chapter. Who here /firstCHADterskipper/?

>>15830164
if you skipped the first chapter of The Sun Also Rises, you'd be missing out on peak bantz

>>15828838
>run random number generator
>skip that many characters

>>15830077
>spit on each paged before turning it

lol'd

>>15830077
On each page of the foreword?

>>15830150
You hate to see it
>>15830270
this

>>15830150
>Parmenides poem is 4 pages
>preface is 30 pages
wew lad

>>15828838
>Read preface
>Skip actual book
>Read only half of the afterword

>>15830077
BASED

Stanislav Lem wrote a book which was all reviews of non-existent books. It sounds like a cute idea but when I looked at it I was disappointed. It's pretty boring.

But anyway:

/lit/ should have a competition to write a cool introduction / foreword for a non-existent book which makes you want to read said book.

>>15828838
>underlines important lines
>writes brief notes in margins
>hands books to friends and acquaintances after reading

>buy a classic work of fiction with a lengthy preface
>read the preface and spoil the ending for myself
>throw the book out without reading it
>shitpost in threads as if I have read the book