>you do read the introductions... right?
Not anymore. They're thoroughly a waste of fucking time.
Yes.
It baffles me that people complain about getting a wealth of information and necessary context to works for which their education has almost certainly not prepared them. At worst I come back around to it periodically through reading because I‘m eager to get a go on.
>tranime shitter who fundamentally does not comprehend the proper usage of greentext makes an irrelevant, time-wasting waste of space of a thread
>>25358999Checked and kek'd
>Introduction by X academic affixed to a classical piece of literature >>HOLY JEEZ, THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE SUPER HECCIN' SEXIST AND PROBLEMATIC!! TAKE WITH A HECCIN' GRAIN OF SALTERINO!!Never again.
>>25358981The last time I read an introduction was when zip disks were still a thing.They fucking suck because at least a quarter of them spoil whatever book you're reading like they're assuming the whole plot is part of popular discourse, and the other three quarters suck because it's just another famous author doing their buddy a favor.
Ban weebs from posting on /lit/
>>25359009I‘ve heard of this for Robinson Crusoe. Never seen it anywhere myself. Name two other examples.
>>25359013Weeb website
>>25359023No. Fuck off.
>>25359027Don't care.
>>25358981No. Ive had numerous endings spoiled by reading the introduction. I make exceptions if the author themselves write them or if after I finished a book I found the novel interesting enough to decide to get more info through whatever is discussed in the introduction
stealth plotfag thread
they get good when I am already familiar with the text and can compare introductions>he doesn't have multiple copies of the same classics
>>25358981Yeah, they're super helpful. I noticed this when I realized I had finished a course only to learn what was plainly written in the introduction of any classic. Historical context, contemporary reception, modern reception, the professor's opinion (in this case whoever wrote the introduction), criticism, etc.
Imagine they add introductions to film. At the beginning of Citizen Kane, you got some film studies professor explaining who Orson Welles was, what life was like in 1941, what the movie is going to be about, the praise the movie received and why it received it, etc.
>>25359214film is baby tier compared to the history of any classic book.
>>25359033That’s fine but it’s still a weeb website.
>>25359658Hasn't been in years. Incel website would be FAR more accurate.
>>25359658Don't. Care. Take it to one of your containment boards, SCUM.
>>25359675Anime has never left the site, it’s part of the bedrock of 4chan. Also, if it’s an incel website, what are you doing here?
>>25359684No. There are no containment boards, it is a weeb website. The entire site.
>>25359689Take a look at the number of boards that have nothing to do with anime or Japanese shit and then come talk to me again.Go back to /a/, you're not welcome here.
>>25359690You don’t get to decide who’s welcome here. Anime is present on every board, including this one, hence this thread. It’s never going away.
>>25358981Spoilers so no I only read the work itself
weebs have not been adjusting well to having become a minority on 4chan
Sometimes I read the plot summary on Wikipedia first. Spoilers are a joke to me
>>25359700Yeah tranime posters are a hated minority and usually oldcucks who cry “THATS NOT HOW WE DID IT IN 2006” while posting off topic ERP threads and lamenting their wasted lives
>>25359697Anime is welcome if its posters recognize they are effeminate and provide sexual favors. The guy who does the themed threads of 100 examples is exempt because those are fantastic.
>>25359697Shut up, troon toon enthusiast.
>>25359697>t.pedo
>>25359214https://youtu.be/11nXc3LB--Ihttps://youtu.be/FXVP8kXiSSg
Weebs are taking bit L's itt
Gooktoon pussies tongue my anus
really, they run the gamut from 'unbelievable waste of time' to 'magisterial and nearly indispensable'for an example of each, I have a complete Shakespeare with a truly awful introduction by Christopher Morley, and a Fagles Odyssey with a wonderful intro by Bernard Knoxone should always be willing to give the introduction a fair shake before committing it to the flames
>>25359797Fagles’ Iliad intro ruined the fucking Iliad for me. Was genuinely pissed. Why the fuck would you spoil the ending in the intro? Now I only read the intro after I’ve finished what it’s introducing.
