Open a book

>open a book
>50 pages long editorial foreword
Why do these people assume anyone gives a shit?

Fully appreciating any book requires a good amount of historical, biographical, and critical context. It's okay to read the forward after you're done reading the actual text, but if you completely ignore it, you are a pleb.

Tenure is often predicated on writing these introductions.

You don't but someone else might, because one person's view doesn't necessarily reflect that of everyone. It's a concept called subjectivity.

You can choose to skip the foreword, OP. Or are you not capable?

I wonder this too OP, like, I don't want context, or prior knowledge, give me the greeks, whales, chinese warlords, and romans n' shit.

>He requires a good amount of historical, biographical, and critical context to appreciate a book

Leave.

>predicated on
Shitty phrase to use.

kys, retard

I assume it's a thing put in there to encourage plebs to read books, but idk.

Is it too much to skim 50 pages you fucking child?