With option 2 (the clown) I think I'd just scream and run away.
Guessed final option. You said 'several pages' which would seem to rule out the first three options. Option 5 -- an unfortunately large number of classic and classic-adjacent novels have forewords that spoil the plot. I guess the reviewers assume that the readership is too high-brow to care about the PLOT TWISTS yay I'm way over thirty and still love my plot twists. Gimme. But at a guess you like me have learned to read the foreword after reading the rest of the book.
Option 4: that would be a very long racist joke. Would also be tempted in my case to just write 'what a horrible unfunny attempt at humour this is' in the margin, though am not usually a creator of marginalia.
Option 6: it's a long complaint and seems to take up most of the afterword, which would explain nuking the whole section.
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Guessed final option. You said 'several pages' which would seem to rule out the first three options. Option 5 -- an unfortunately large number of classic and classic-adjacent novels have forewords that spoil the plot. I guess the reviewers assume that the readership is too high-brow to care about the PLOT TWISTS yay I'm way over thirty and still love my plot twists. Gimme. But at a guess you like me have learned to read the foreword after reading the rest of the book.
Option 4: that would be a very long racist joke. Would also be tempted in my case to just write 'what a horrible unfunny attempt at humour this is' in the margin, though am not usually a creator of marginalia.
Option 6: it's a long complaint and seems to take up most of the afterword, which would explain nuking the whole section.