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6739724 No.6739724 [Reply] [Original]

>not reading the reading the introduction after reading the book

>> No.6739731
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>>6739724
op youre drunk go to bed

>> No.6739739

>>6739724
You fucked your post up OP, but I agree.
I don't even know why there are preface/non-author introduction instead of postface.

In the end, the guy writing it
>reveals the plot if fiction
>gives a simplistic summary if non-fiction
>still refrain from interesting comments by pretending "you need to read the book first"

>> No.6739751

>>6739731

the demon, who is it?

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>>6739731
Seriously though, introductions often contain info about the book that [you, the reader] should rather discover yourself (things as spoilers and thematic observations) rather than have them rubbed in your face before having even started to read the actual book (and have that info take away from the experience). Now I won't say that introductions can't be useful for things as historical context and maybe some intel about the writer. But most of the time you're better off just skipping them.

>> No.6740014

>>6739752
The facial expressions in In a Roman Osteria are amazing.