Your loss.Corribus wrote:If it's any indication of how good I thought the book was, I never felt motivated enough to read any of the other ones.
Q: What do you think of the Foundation series by Asimov?
Your loss.Corribus wrote:If it's any indication of how good I thought the book was, I never felt motivated enough to read any of the other ones.
I doubt that.ThunderTitan wrote: Your loss.
Are you asking me? I do not have thoughts on it, as I have not read it.Q: What do you think of the Foundation series by Asimov?
Just read it twice :-) This is a basic for every sci-fi fan.ThunderTitan wrote:Q: What do you think of the Foundation series by Asimov?
really sorrytheLuckyDragon wrote:Only twice?
Well if you really want to connect it into a whole,its some 16 books with daneel as the main(well at least the most mentioned one)character.Starting with the end of eternity,over I,robot,the four robot books(the caves of steel,the naked sun,robots of dawn,robots and the empire),three books about the empire(the currents of space,stars like dust,pebble in the sky),and seven foundation books(prelude to foundation,forward the foundation,foundation,foundation and the empire,the second foundation,foundations edge,foundations edge).All of those are connected in a way.Im just four books away from reading this big series,unfortunately they are very hard to findCunning Death wrote:really sorry
Dude, do you realise, that it's a lot of books? The main trilogy, Prelude to Foundation, Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth.... that's what I have here at home. Add to this two times Lord of Rings (first: "whoa! that's good", second: "wait... a film? I must re-read" )
The prelude I have both in english and in serbiantheLuckyDragon wrote:I only need Prelude to Foundation and Robots and the Empire to have the whole collection.
Well silmarilion needs to be reread in order to grasp it fully and tie the strings.theLuckyDragon wrote: LotR? Only read it once. Silmarillion? Four times.
Right you are. On my list Although it's a good book, it raised many questions for me, which remained, of course, unanswered.DaemianLucifer wrote:Well silmarilion needs to be reread in order to grasp it fully and tie the strings.
that's somethin'. and I thought I'm a huge fanMetathron wrote:LOTR - 13xtheLuckyDragon wrote: LotR? Only read it once. Silmarillion? Four times.
The Sil - 8x
*SPOILERS for Brave new world*reynaert wrote:Brave new world had some strange floating viewpoint (changing the answer to the question 'who's the main character' ad random- at some times, you get elaborate views on a character, in a storyline that is not connected to the other storylines, just to elaborate 'more'?)
anyway, don't forget Brave new world was written before WW2, and 1984 after. It's fun to see in the 'history part' of brave new world how they're talking about gassing people, and poisoning (which was one of the horrors of the 1st WW)- but don't use our most feared weapon, the nuclear bomb.
I said the Foundation series, not the Robots-Empire-Foundation metaseries, or whatever they call it. And the original Foundation series only had 3 book anyway.DaemianLucifer wrote:Starting with the end of eternity,over I,robot,the four robot books(the caves of steel,the naked sun,robots of dawn,robots and the empire),three books about the empire(the currents of space,stars like dust,pebble in the sky),and seven foundation books(prelude to foundation,forward the foundation,foundation,foundation and the empire,the second foundation,foundations edge,foundations edge)
I suggest you to call it Foundation trilogy thenThunderTitan wrote:I said the Foundation series, not the Robots-Empire-Foundation metaseries, or whatever they call it. And the original Foundation series only had 3 book anyway.
Added to my "to read list."Caradoc wrote:If you liked 1984, let me recommend the book that Orwell plagiarized. This was "We" by Eugene Zamyatin. It was written in 1920, but not published in Zamyatin's native Russia until 1988. I read it in Russian lit class back in the 70s, and still had my copy when the Russian collegiate debate team came for a match. Naturally, I slipped it in with our gifts -- along with the cowboy hats and Disneyana.
The significance of the title is the inherent ambiguity of the word "we". Does it include second person or not?
The first novel was writen without sequels in mind.Derek wrote: @TheLuckyDragon
Thanks, I've got too many books to read at the moment and that really takes a load of my shoulder.
I have read it. I liked 1984 better.Derek wrote:Added to my "to read list." Are you sure that it is plagiarized or that it provided influence to Orwell? Wikipedia leads me to think that it provided influence, but I'd like to hear more about this interesting book.
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