Yes Virginia, there is a prologue...

I recently was part of an online conversation where adult readers admitted they often skip prologues.  Say what? It's like skipping the salad at a full course dinner, or not eating the frosting on a cupcake. You miss out on a part of the experience.

Contemplating the subject as a writer I wondered this:
Is it just that I am personally insulted?
My first two novels, The Compound and The Gardener, both have prologues which are of major major importance to the story. To think that someone would j...