/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13515777]

>foreword is 70 pages

[Anonymous No.13515785]

>>13515777
>book is a book
What the fuck were they thinking?
Checked btw

[Anonymous No.13515796]

>>13515785
>buy a book expecting to read the author
>70 pages in
>some ittelevant fuck is still talking about the book and the author

[Anonymous No.13515810]

>finish foreword
>find out that the book has multiple forewords

[Anonymous No.13515821]

>>13515796
I know the feeling. I bought the Hackett version of Nichomacean ethics and only about a 1/3 of the whole book is Aristotle. I was a little let down

[Anonymous No.13515892]

>>13515777
>reading anything that the author didn't approve to be there
It's gonna be a no from me dog

[Anonymous No.13515907]

>>13515796
>>13515821
>not skipping those parts
well that's your own damn fault niggers

[Anonymous No.13515929]

>>13515907
I did, it's just saddening that there wasn't as much to the book as I thought. Luckily I bought it used and not at full price

[Anonymous No.13515943]

The other night I went to read this novel and there was a very short foreword. Usually I never read these stuff, but it was short, so I was like "eh". In just two fucking pages, this little cocksucker managed to tell the end of the story and the important plot twist before it just to emphasize that "it is a universal story that resonates deeply within blabla". I don't care about spoilers for tv shows or whatnot but that was a fucking 600 pages investment of my time. Fucking little four-eyed bastard, probably very proud of him and of the importance of his work. This made me want to catch aids, so I could fuck his old hag of a wife, thereby cucking and condemning him to death when he'll pathetically fuck her on their usual, yearly coitus. These men need to be hunted down and put to slavery in coal mines, idk. This really made me understand why people would want to burn books. I'm really still mad about this

[Anonymous No.13515953]

Hot take: always skip the forwards and introductions and read them after the book is over. Often times it spoils the book, so I always skip them.

[Anonymous No.13515963]

>introduction
>foreword
>blank pages
>pages with logos and trademark shit
>indexes
>annexes
>bibliographies
>book ends up being more than half as long as it should be, publishers think this warrants increasing the price

[Anonymous No.13516082]

>book has a foreword
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[Anonymous No.13516284]

>>13515943
Based

[Anonymous No.13516297]

>there's an epilogue

[Anonymous No.13516388]

>>13515777
>*Title of book* With a new introduction by Massive Faggot
>its endless pages of tldr biography shit about the author's life

[Anonymous No.13516389]

>>13515953
Spoilers are a made up meme.

[Anonymous No.13516393]

>>13516388
You forgot "Abridged Version"

[Anonymous No.13516402]

>skip foreword
>find out that the foreword is actually the first chapter and necessary to read
>it reads like a foreword

[Anonymous No.13516409]

>>13516393
>Abr*dged versions

[Anonymous No.13516411]

>forward is 90 pages
>appendix is 40 pages
>turn page
>2nd appendix

[Anonymous No.13516414]

>>13516297
>the epilogue only ties in tangentially

Thanks McCarthy.

[Anonymous No.13516417]

>>13516409
They alway trick me. I only buy books used and thriftbooks often doesn't have the correct edition listed so they send an abridged version and I throw it away

[Anonymous No.13517545]

>editor's preface
>editor's introduction
>translator's preface
>translator's forward
>translator's introduction
>translator's notes on translation
>translator's dedications
>publishing intern's short story
>author's introduction
>author's prologue
>author's introductory poem
>main body of work is 5 pages long

[Anonymous No.13517564]

>roman numerals

[Anonymous No.13517576]

>>13517545
Don't forget the afterwords, end notes, bibliographies, appendices, index, etc.

[Anonymous No.13517603]

>reading Hamlet in English
>Foreword from the Publisher
>About the Author
>Translator’s Comments (really)
>Brief History of the Globe
>Notes about the script format
So, this is how they keep inflating the price. Thank you unethical capitalism.

[Anonymous No.13517610]

>>13517603
>buying a physical copy of shakespeare for any reason other than the auxiliary material

[Anonymous No.13517673]

The Penguin edtion of Capital, Volume I is the most canonical example of what's being discussed in this thread.

[Anonymous No.13517805]

>>13515943
I concur with your anger, my friend. Allow me to tell you my personal rule:

"Do not read forewords or introductions whatsoever, unless it was included in the very first edition of the book's publishing. You may read the foreword/introduction after reading the real book."

With Translator's Introductions, it's a grey area unfortunately. Usually I read the first couple pages of it, where they say the most important shit, and then move on to the actual book.

[Anonymous No.13517813]

>>13517603
Are you implying capitalism is capable of being ethical? roflmao

[Anonymous No.13518038]

>>13517545
Kek

[Anonymous No.13518180]

>>13515777
every ancient greek play has a foreword of at least 50 pages

[Anonymous No.13518202]

>>13518180
because otherwise dumb dumbs would read it without any background knowledge and get absolutely nothing out of the experience

[Anonymous No.13518276]

>>13515943
Which book was it?

[Anonymous No.13518590]

>>13518202
I never read introductions to Ancient Greek works, it's all rehashings of the Dionysia or geographical pedantry.