Reading introductions

>reading introductions
What's Yea Forums's view on reading introductions? Is there any point if it's a novel? I feel like it's even potentially damaging, because the introduction will condition you into thinking a certain way about what you're reading.

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I always read them because it usually provides context on where the author is coming from and why they wrote it but I understand your point.

If I see that someone with a Jewish last name wrote the introductory then I generally skip it.

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THEY CAN BE NECESSARY, OR SUPERFLUOUS; I ALWAYS READ AN INTRODUCTION IF I ESTIMATE THAT IT IS NECESSARY; SOME TIMES, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT IS NECESSARY, OR SUPERFLUOUS, AN INTRODUCTION CAN VEX THE READER, SO THAT BY THE TIME THAT THE READER HAS READ THE INTRODUCTION TO ITS END, HE IS INDISPOSED TO START READING THE MAIN TEXT —TIRED OF READING WITHOUT ACTUALLY HAVING READ ANYTHING.

I guess that's kind of based

Useful reply but WHY ARE YOU TYPING IN ALL CAPS?

I always read them, because they usually don't spoil anything and sometimes help get me hyped.
But from now on, I will start to do a small check on who wrote the introduction.

Hell, thinking better i might just stop reading them at all. There is no advantage to them. I think i will read only the more tecnical ones (when was this book writen, what was the original lenguage, etc).

I only read Richard Spencer

I like reading the Penguin introductions for background info but the Oxford World Classics' introductions are far too long and have little to do with the book. It depends on the book publisher really.

You must be new. He's a schizo and he does it because the Romans didn't have lower case letters.

>Useful reply but WHY ARE YOU TYPING IN ALL CAPS?
that's his gimmick
he's trying really hard to be noticed.

LOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD

how is this kind of humor called? it fills my heart with joy.

First I read the book and if i liked it I go back and read the introduction to see if they are talking shit

Introductions are for betas. Chads couldn't give a fuck what other people think of a book.

coo coo ca choo

>if it's fiction
Never
>If it's anything else
Always
Not reading the introduction to a philosophy text is retarded, since they could most of the time be called the first chapter.

If it's my first read I'll read the introduction last, if it's not I'll read it first. I generally already know about the context of the book and its author, but it's always good to hear more.

I'm considering shaving the sides off completely but fear looking like an egg head or skin head.

i don't understand why i find this picture so funny.

Introductions are useful. But remember to x-ray the book before diving into the text.

Egg head.

Man this guy fell off the face of the earth
He came out of nowhere and disappeared just as fast

>uses U instead if V

i usually skim through the first page to see what it's about
> boring biography
skipped
> commentary on importance of that work
skipped
> significant event in author's life that affected this work
will probably read
> cultural commentary and explanation of a work from a very foreign land and time
will likely read
> author's thoughts (in later editions)
will likely read

also
> mfw the introduction mercilessly spoilers the book

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Low IQ

oh he's still around, the media is just finished using him as a damp rag

Explain.

I hate what Americans have done to the right wing
Now anybody who is traditionally right wing is going to be associated with these absolute retards chanting about jews and ethno states

Discussions about ethno states are inevitable.

Maybe you meant that ethno states are a leftist thing, in which case you're mostly right, but these left/right distinctions are poorly defined anyway and we should do away with them.

We should be discussing how to destroy the system that allowed for multi-culturalism not trying to solve the symptom with more beaurecracy.

Richard Spencer would agree with you 100%. You should check out what he's talking about these days:
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