I have not yet read the Odyssey and to this day I don't know if Ulysses makes it back alive in a happy ending or not. Or if he comes back and is killed. I know someone's going to tell me now but spoiler, I won't read it.

>>25326232
it's for college kids to cheat before chatgpt

>>25326247
If you've read the Iliad, where he is a character, you can probably figure it out.

>>25326232
That’s why I read intros last

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>>25326232
My favorite part of my first blind reading of Blood Meridian 5 years ago was having Harold Bloom’s fat ugly kike ass immediately spoil the entire plot and ending within the first two pages of the introduction

>>25326251
Iiidiooot

>plotfags crying about spoilers
SUMMER IS HERE!

>>25326251
Don't Achilles, Ajax, Achilles and Agamemnon all get killed between the Iliad and the Odyssey?

>>25326232
Some utterly retarded food spooled the ending of Temple of the Golden pavillion in the intro. I couldn't bear myself to read rest of the book because the MC was such a wimp

>>25326498
kek I remember thinking that when I first read it but reading BM took me so long by the end of the novel I'd forgotten the intro's spoilers

>>25326232
INTRODUCTIONS ARE MEANT FOR THE SECOND READ THROUGH, YOU DUMBFUCK. YOU'RE ALL DUMBFUCKS!

>>25328010

YES! THAT'S WHY WE READ! FUCK! also what ear reader to buy in 26

>>25326232
if the introduction is by anyone other than the author or translator it's some self-important fart who should simply be ignored

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>>25328049
>author writes his own introduction referring to himself in the third person
is it kino?

>>25328010
so why isn't it at the end of the book?

>>25328065
because it's "important"

>>25326247
He gets before’d as soon as he gets back to ithaka and his son watches his mom get a train ran on her by the suitors while Odysseus goes to hell for not accepting Christ

I had the entire plot of crime and punishment spoiled by the blurb on the back of the book. How is that allowed? Is it because it’s a classic and so they just assume everyone knows the plot already?

>>25327013
Yes, because it's a work about greatness and hubris, eternity and folly. This is -in the work itself- contrasted with nostos. Considering Ulysses's introduction in the Iliad, where he really doesn't want to go and tries to trick the recruiters into letting him be, should let you assume that's what the Odyssey is all about.

>>25328272
The plot itself is genuinely unimportant in this one, it's all about the sauce. Now, Brothers Karamazov, that's a book you can get spoiled on.

>>25326232
If you're reading a book with an intro like that the plot isn't the point of reading it

>>25326232
That's why I only read """introductions""" when I'm done with the book.