Do you read the introductions or get straight to the story?

If it's a work I know the plot to, I read the whole introduction first.

If it's a work I don't know the plot to, I read only so far in the introduction as to where the author begins talking about the story. Then I stop and read the story, then go back and read the introduction.

Do you have the Penguin Classics one? I'm working through the same introduction. That has 3 pages of footnotes for the fucking introduction.

Usually I'd say its whatever.

But for Meditations, read the fucking introduction if you don't have a basic understanding of Marcus as a person, and Stoic philosophy + the other influences.

>>8929661
Penguin classics version of the Epic of Gilgamesh is 50% introduction.

Straight to the story.

Introductions seem to delight in spoiling every goddamn thing that happens in the novel.

>>8929919
>caring about spoilers outside of cheap entertainment

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>>8929940
>missing out on a major part of literature

I pity you.