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>Editor's note
>Translator's note
>Translator's note to the new edition
>Introduction (by translator)
>Preface
>Introduction (by the author)
>Prologue

>> No.17370102

skip to the prologue

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>Editor's note spoils the Introduction

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>first page of the introduction by a third party spoils a plot point of the last page of the book
catch-22 in case you're wondering

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>>17370096

You, you are like a little baby. Watch this

>> No.17371004

If the intro / prologue is written by the author himself then I read it, otherwise skip straight to chapter 1 of the actual book

>> No.17371022

Or, as a general rule, read everything that was written by the actual author of the book, skip everything that was written by other people.

>> No.17371305

>>17370161
thanks, Im planning on reading this soon. I wouldve literally bombed their corporate headquarters if that happened to me.

>> No.17371327

>>17370096
My copy of the communist manifesto has more introductions/editors notes/notes from the author than the actual length of the manifesto itself.

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>>17370096
>read introductory material
>skip actual work

>> No.17371726

>>17371004
>>17371022
Some anon did that with Lolita. He didn't realise he skipped a key part of the story until he was done with the book.