Do you read all the stuff before the story?

[MacGuffin]

Intros, author's note, beforehands, prologues, indexes, bibliographies, author's warnings, publisher's notes, addendums, and all that other crap? I'm just curious, because I'm about to start Junky and there's like 30 pages worth of stuff before the story. I really am only interested in the story.

[Sven]

I didn't vote, because the option of "Skip it, then read it afterward" was unavailable. Although I think that prologues are generally intended to be a part of the original story.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I read some of them, if I'm interested, though I always read the prologue.

[ledfloyd]

depends if the author wrote it or not. alot of the scholarly forewords are valuable but spoiler heavy so i read them after.

[Qrazy]

depends if the author wrote it or not. alot of the scholarly forewords are valuable but spoiler heavy so i read them after.

Yeah exactly, usually best to read them afterward.

[Ezee E]

Agreed. Sometimes the intros are spoilers too, and I don't like that.

[Sycophant]

I usually start them, but usually...

a) back out because they're spoilertastic
b) find them wholly uninteresting
c) abort because I'm ready to get on with the book already, with all the intent to revisit them when I finish the book, but forget to

I always read dedications though.