>preface spoils the book

Lmao "spoilers" is the meme I want to die the most

>>7580492
It's as reddit as it gets

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>>7580488
>post-face redeems the book

>>7580495
Stop the memeing. I'm not saving that image.

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>the cover is from the movie-adaption

>>7580500
why not

it's a good meme

>>7580512
No it's not. Stop making Reddit comment chains where you repeat a joke/ meme hoping it will catch on. That seems to be your MO.

>>7580524
That was all 4chan was about in 2006-09 desu.

>>7580488
Reading commentaries about the text before the text itself is a silly idea to begin with; prefaces and introductions should always be read last. There may be exceptions, but I can't think of any.

Sometimes even footnotes and endnotes can spoil the story though.

>>7580492
And I wish people would stop calling everything a meme. I know some of you would rather read David Foster Wallace's annotated grocery lists than anything with suspense and a twist ending, but plots are important, no matter what contrarian snobs say. They just aren't the only elements that can make a book interesting, and may not be necessary at all depending on the type of book.

>>7580488
stop

reading

the fucking

introductions

Pengiun's The Brothers Karamazov tells you about the murder on the back of the book. Based on that I expected it would happen right away, but then I started reading the book and it's like 500 pages in.

>>7580661
>>7580713
It's as if publishers assumed every classic nowadays is bought and read by people who are already familiar with it. Which is ridiculous.

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>>7580488

The real issue is whether you pronounce it so it sounds like

preh-fiss

or

pree-face

if you pick the wrong one you should actually kill yourself

>>7580807
kill yourself, frog shit

>>7580807
preh-fuss master race

>>7580528
Good job those days are over

>>7580865
"it's 2016, come on!", you mean?

Back to reddit, kid

>>7580883
Back to Encyclopedia Dramatica and KYM where you clearly learnt about le good old days from

>2016
>reading some random ass guys introduction to a book he didn't write

>>7580488
>reading for the plot

>>7581078
This.

You start with the actual text and maybe if you feel like it read the other stuff.

If you don't know this by now you deserve to have your shit spoiled, OP.