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3293162 No.3293162 [Reply] [Original]

>reading a new book
>massive spoilers in the introduction

>> No.3293172

That's why you DON'T READ ABOUT THE BOOK BEFORE THE BOOK

Did you start reading yesterday?

>> No.3293177

>>3293172
Then why is it called an "introduction" if you aren supposed to read it after you've read the book?

>> No.3293195

>>3293177
On my copy of Madame Bovary there is an introduction that warns the first time readers to skip the intro if they haven't read the book first because it contains spoilers. People should essentially know they are at risk of spoilers if they read the intro first.

>> No.3293210

>>3293177

They're meant to be read after you've gone through the book once or a few times.

They are an introduction to the work, but not for a reader that's tackling a book for the first time.

>> No.3293956

>be 14
>read the first Artemis Fowl book
>Fucking massive intro with Ireland's mythology and a short history course through its prehistorical period.
>What is this shit.jpeg

It was a good read though, for a young adult novel.

>> No.3293964

>>3293177
Don't take things at face value.

>> No.3293991
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3293991

>get an annotated book
>bibliography is missing

or:

>finally get a replacement of Hobbes' Leviathan
>the first half is just a Jeeves & Wooster omnibus

what the fuck

>> No.3295683

The Running Man was spoiled for me by the intro

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3295721

>Mum turns on TV and watches Oprah interviewing JK Rolling
>Oprah reads and spoils the ending of the Deadly Barrows
>mfw

>> No.3295725

>>3295721
Wow, Oprah is such a bitch.

>> No.3295726

>>3295721
>>3295725

You guys read JK Rowling? How old are you?

>> No.3295729

>>3295726
Well, I used to be 13. It's a shock, I know.

>> No.3295730

>>3295726

The more disturbing thing is that they watch Oprah.

>> No.3295736

>>3295730
Which is implied by neither of those posts.

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3295739

>>3295736

>im implying your implying

>> No.3295744

>>3295726
I started reading the books when I was 10? I'm sorry I wasn't an edgy teenager back then. The interview was before the release of the final book.

>> No.3295747

>>3295730
Yeah. My mum watches Oprah. Sue her.

>> No.3295751

>>3295744

Oh, I thought you were talking about something that happened yesterday or some such other.