>read introduction
>it spoils every single event in the entire book

>>24560504 (OP)
>Narrator prefaces audiobook by saying he's saving the introduction for the end so he doesn't spoil the plot
>It's Aristotle's Poetics

>>24560504 (OP)
The point of a literary introduction is that explains the text in its context, usually for undergraduates.

You read the introduction to get spoiled so you don't have to read the book 3 times. That's the whole fucking point of the introduction.

>>24560509
New Bruce, are you a poofter?

>>24560504 (OP)
>read Endroduction
>no knowledge of book events is needed to understand it

>>24560504 (OP)
>have bad memory, spoilers don't work on me anyway.

>>read introduction
brought it on yourself.

>>24560504 (OP)

>read introduction

>deserve everything you get

>>24560504 (OP)
Spoilers don't matter

kill introductions and those that write them

those spoiler introductions are intended for college kids so they don't have to do the reading

Sorry you NEED to know my opinion on this book before you read it

>>24560504 (OP)
>zeus interrupts battle to say who will win
>they win

To me it seems the introduction has the most benefits being read after the book.

This why I ain't reading introductions. Fuck em! Real shit

OP getting spoiled on a book written 250 years ago lmao

>>24561467
OP probably wasn't alive 250 years ago

>>24561467
yes

If the introduction is written by someone other than the author (or sometimes translator in the case of translated works), this is basically intentional. It's convenient for deeper works that you don't want to have to read multiple times to truly get deeply but if you're trying to go in blind, yes, best to save for later.

>>24560504 (OP)
>read introduction
>it provides valuable overview of the book's topic and insight into how it was constructed while also citing the notable sources and their overviews

>>24561141
we have something for that, it's called an afterword

>>24560504 (OP)
I literally never read introductions or notes about the author.

>>24560504 (OP)
>starting a book at the beginning and reading until the end
>not opening up to a random page and reading a paragraph or two aloud before chortling and tossing it aside
ishygddt

>>24560504 (OP)
>when madame peckham sucked off sir hornsburysworths benis last fortnight it showed a clear historical allegorical metaphor to sir flufferham in chapter 9 when madame claphem admits that she habbababbaboobadoobydooba'd the rene guenon boy last winter a snowy night

please dont post shiori i don't want to go back to vtumors

>>24560504 (OP)
>reading the introduction
>caring about "spoilers"
I shouldn't expect much from a VTuber fan, but I still believe you'll grow out of these as you read more books.