Post by doccreed on Oct 12, 2019 23:03:06 GMT
I learned the hard way not to read introductions to famous books and classics. I bought several Penguin Classics editions of Saul Bellow and had to quickly put on the brakes. The same thing happened with another 20th century writer, Wallace Stegner. I don't understand why these detailed summaries and analayses aren't placed at the end of a book, seems like common sense. Shouldn't an introduction to a novel be seductive? I think a reader wants to be lured into a book like a deer into a vegetable garden. We shouldn't assume that everyone has read Jane Eyre or David Copperfield simply because they are centuries old.
What do you think about this?
What do you think about this?