I just got Brave New World and I am super excited to finally read it. Side note: I absolutely love the cover of this version!! I also like how they combined Brave New World and Revisited into a single edition.
The Forward is 15 pages and the Preface is 9 pages and I always feel like I need to read them before I can actually start the book. Something about skipping pages for any reason just seems wrong to me. But I am also a very slow reader, I really like to ponder each paragraph and look up words I don't know, and 25 pages that's probably full of all kinds of cultural references and name-drops will take me a little while. I want to skip them but I feel like the Gods of reading would frown upon it. So yeah. For this reason I dislike Forwards and Prefaces.
How do you guys feel about them?
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. It is about Mormonism. Trigger warning though, there's some messed up stuff in that book. It's definitely a heavy read.