Acknowledgements

I almost always read the Acknowledgements page in the books I read, usually because any writer worth their salt has a sense of how many people it actually took to put out this book, even though only one name appears on the title page, and also because you can find suprising humor on these pages.

Try it sometime with a favorite book, fiction or nonfiction. Travel books are usually good places to start. Simple lists of names are no fun, you need the private jokes that show up from time to time to make it interesting.