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Does /lit/ read prefaces or do you jump straight into the book

>> No.12530911

>>12530899
Jump right in. If I run off the deep end of not understanding, I read the preface/introduction, otherwise I don't read it until I've finished the book.

>> No.12530915

>>12530899
Straight to the book. I like making my own opinion and also not reading spoilers. It's a win-win.

>> No.12530918

depends if theres anything interesting in it

>> No.12530949

it depends
1) who wrote it?
2) do i need an introduction to the author or book?
3) will i read the book just for fun or with a deeper approach?

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12530954

>>12530899

>preface is by some plebby pop writer and not real critic or scholar

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12530979

>>12530954
>book gets a new edition just so they can insert an introduction by the latest meme author

>> No.12530984

>>12530979
No way

>> No.12530998

>>12530979
that's an OOF from me

>> No.12531008

>>12530979
oh my god

>> No.12531010

>>12530998
Because you’re being rammed in the ass by your dom, fuccboi

>> No.12531017

>>12530899
Jump right in, but I always return to prefaces later. Unless it's literally just a page or two.
Most "introductions" seem best read AFTER you've read the book.

>> No.12531577

>>12530979
Peterson and Solzhenitsyn are both meme authors, but still what the actual fuck
For a retard Nazi-sympathizer, he still deserved better

>> No.12532003

>>12531577
the nazi sympathizer pill is the true patrician's pill. you're not blindly following an ideology as a whole, you just acknowledge its strengths and good aspects. one of the things i like about nazism is that they would have shoa'd faggaroos like you.

>> No.12532015

>>12532003
>wanting to be a Nazi but also being such a pussy you're afraid of committing to it
Yikes!

>> No.12532032

>>12532015
as opposed to the very heights of bravery- criticizing the world's least popular ideology

>> No.12532047

I stopped reading prefaces because the assholes always fucking spoil the book by the third page

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12532090

>>12530979
this is real....they'll have him writing prefaces to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard before long....

>> No.12532098

>>12532090
>they'll have him writing prefaces to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard before long

Does Peterson even meme those authors? I would expect Dostoevsky intros done first.

>> No.12532212

>>12530979
http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2018/11/02/the-gulag-archipelago-a-new-foreword-by-jordan-b-peterson-written-by-jordan-b-peterson/

yikes

>> No.12532305

>>12530979
Doesn’t it kind of give the game away that rather than an expert in Soviet history, or literature, they instead get somebody famous for his anti-communism? Gulag Archipelago gets reprinted not because it’s good history or because it’s fine work of literature but because it’s anti-communist propaganda.

>> No.12532960

>>12530899
If you're reading Phenomenology, you don't skip the preface.

>> No.12534476

>>12530899
I usually skip over them. They're usually barely relevant. Penguin is especially bad with doing this.

>> No.12534482

>>12530899
Not reading the preface is the surest sign of a brainlet