Anonymous
6/28/2025, 10:46:29 AM No.24502959
Do you read prefaces?
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Anonymous
6/28/2025, 10:54:33 AM No.24502969
Sometimes
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 10:56:21 AM No.24502971
exclusively
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 10:57:03 AM No.24502972
Never
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 10:58:30 AM No.24502975
maybe
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 10:59:32 AM No.24502976
Occasionally
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 11:00:33 AM No.24502978
Sometimes, on occasion. Maybe. Depends.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 11:22:31 AM No.24503014
I've been spoiled too many times.
Anonymouṡ
6/28/2025, 11:36:45 AM No.24503041
>>24502959 (OP)
Yes. If it's written by the author, read it. If it's written not by the author but by another author whom you would read on his own merits, probably. If it’s written by anyone else, no. (I guess technically, "Author's Preface" is a tautology, but whatever.)
Yes. If it's written by the author, read it. If it's written not by the author but by another author whom you would read on his own merits, probably. If it’s written by anyone else, no. (I guess technically, "Author's Preface" is a tautology, but whatever.)
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 11:45:55 AM No.24503058
>>24502959 (OP)
Possibly. I don't remember.
Possibly. I don't remember.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 11:47:03 AM No.24503061
>>24502959 (OP)
Probably
Probably
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 11:48:03 AM No.24503064
>>24502959 (OP)
Probably not.
Probably not.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 11:57:11 AM No.24503081
>>24502959 (OP)
I only read prefaces, basically all the good stuff condensed, not bothering to read 1000 pages of rambles after that
I only read prefaces, basically all the good stuff condensed, not bothering to read 1000 pages of rambles after that
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 1:30:46 PM No.24503187
I engaged in praefatio with your mum last night.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 1:45:58 PM No.24503202
Not at all.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 5:29:20 PM No.24503579
>>24502959 (OP)
I read them after finishing the book, often with a smirk of comtempt as I've developed views and ideas about the text far more interesting than the ones proposed in the preface.
I read them after finishing the book, often with a smirk of comtempt as I've developed views and ideas about the text far more interesting than the ones proposed in the preface.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:43:55 AM No.24504749
>>24502959 (OP)
I don't read prefaces, but I once watched a theatrical adaptation of Goethe's Faust that featured a beautiful Judaic twink as the demon and he was nearly nude. The girl Gretchen was played by a short, overweight German woman and I think that ruined the whole point of the play
I don't read prefaces, but I once watched a theatrical adaptation of Goethe's Faust that featured a beautiful Judaic twink as the demon and he was nearly nude. The girl Gretchen was played by a short, overweight German woman and I think that ruined the whole point of the play
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 3:27:03 AM No.24504841
i literally cut off the pages of the preface and throw them in the bin
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 3:28:47 AM No.24504845
>>24502959 (OP)
no, only after the main text. They should really stop calling them introductions or put them on the back of the book because they either spoil the main text or talk about things you wouldn't understand without having read it first.
no, only after the main text. They should really stop calling them introductions or put them on the back of the book because they either spoil the main text or talk about things you wouldn't understand without having read it first.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 5:25:29 AM No.24505159
never, I only read introductions by the greatest author of our generation neil gaiman
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 8:47:47 AM No.24505495
yes, but only halfway thru. I first want to form my own opinions
Anonymouṡ
6/29/2025, 11:44:01 AM No.24505692
>>24505159
If someone published "Collected Introductions By Neil Gaiman", who would write the introduction?
If someone published "Collected Introductions By Neil Gaiman", who would write the introduction?
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 11:53:50 AM No.24505701
>>24502959 (OP)
this board reads?
this board reads?
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 11:58:17 AM No.24505707
>>24505692
the maid he forced to lick her own shit off his dick
the maid he forced to lick her own shit off his dick
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 12:11:26 PM No.24505720
>>24502959 (OP)
I read everything printed in a book.
I read everything printed in a book.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 12:26:14 PM No.24505740
>>24502959 (OP)
Always.
Always.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 12:45:32 PM No.24505788
>>24505692
Alan Moore or some bullshit
> Oi the noition of wroiting a book maid oout of prefaces some moight say is not propah
Alan Moore or some bullshit
> Oi the noition of wroiting a book maid oout of prefaces some moight say is not propah
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 1:19:58 PM No.24505827
>>24502959 (OP)
Not usually
Not usually
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:05:58 PM No.24505874
>>24502959 (OP)
almost always
almost always
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:46:22 PM No.24505922
>>24502959 (OP)
Exclusively
Exclusively
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 3:10:33 PM No.24505963
Not very often
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 3:12:10 PM No.24505967
Often