You can see a clear cut between sf and fantasy authors who grew up with modern cinema(80's and up) and those before. Movies have hijacked the way to write novels. Actions scenes, descriptions, etc.Just compare Dunsany and Sanderson for example.

Whatever works for you. There's no right or wrong way to read.

Don’t be hard on yourself OP. You don’t need to justify anything; as others in the comments have said, enjoy a few pages every day. I work long shifts and by the time I get home I’m totally spent and don’t have enough attention span left to read as much as I’d like, but I motivate myself by curling up with my record player on, my three cats cuddling me, and a big mug of tea. I only ever get a few pages in before I fall asleep, but progress is progress. Don’t let the booktubers/tiktokkers’ habits make you feel like you should be devouring a book in two days, remember that they have a steady schedule of content to make to keep interactivity and clicks from their fans high, so you just do you.

Me too!!

Now I'm genuinely curious. Please tell us what novels you think are very good.

There’s nothing bad about reading. Read as much as you can, or as little as you can.

Todays publishing is just about making money. Its not about good prose, stories,etc.. publisher follow the hype

If it makes you happy to do it that way, there's nothing wrong with it. If you're content with how much you're reading, then keep it up as is. A reading habit is a reading habit, it's still a good thing.

Have they considered those super thin Trojan condoms?

Read as many pages as you like! If a couple pages a day is a good goal for you stick with it! I've found trying to force myself to read more than what works for me because I see others reading way more takes the fun out of reading and makes it stressful. Some people love reading hundreds of pages a day, some a chapter and some a few pages a day and I know for myself that changes daily. 😊

Read however you want. I'm the opposite and tend to forget what has happened if I read that slowly. Also I risk losing interest and not finishing it at all. So I speed read and listen to audiobooks at double speed. Is that a bad habit? Don't know, don't care.

It's not very triggering. There's a couple scene that are heavy.

McCarthy trick in the road is creating the post apocalyptic ambience. The relationship between dad and son is really good. It feels like this could happen.

It's a must read imo. But I'm a big fan of post apocalyptic anything.

> I guess my observation is that given the number of people and serious writers who disagree with you, you might be lacking the self awareness to measure the difference between "I don't like" and "is bad".

As with Philip K. Dick's work, it seems very common to be highly critical of Foundation's technical quality.

It’s better than not reading. Enjoy the few pages every day.

It’s not a homework assignment. Do whatever you like and don’t let anyone shame you for it.

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Unpopular opinion. I LOVED Verity!!!!

> generation were the first to reflect on this post war political climate where technology was being seeing as the driving force of societal development and prosperity so became key milestone works within the genre.

I would say this is highly inaccurate, given that the same could be said of Verne and Wells.

no physical book you could buy today has been edited.

Weird obsessions with words count😆

You seems to dont know that the main things that makes SF classics is ideas. Not prose or character dev. Its not like an academic classic

Well, he did read Edward Gibbons "Decline and Fall" before he pitched his idea for Foundation, if I remember correctly. The "foundation" of Foundation is therefore not rooted in fictional prose but in history, both in writing and philosophy. The changing characters are vehicles for exploring various forces that propel history like technology, trade and religion. The first book especially is a step by step description of how europe got through the very early medieval period after the fall of the western roman empire.

The narrative is more stringent and less episodic in the other two but the various philosophies of Historiography stay at the core of Foundation, for the most part. That's where the trilogy draws it's strength from and got it's accolades

Yeah... it's an interesting premise but the execution is not so great.

I am planning to watch the adaptation; I assume it has all the book's strengths with none of its weaknesses.

>What writer who doesn't read tell classic stories that stand the test of time? None.

I have to disagree with you there, however--Asimov has stood the test of time quite well. He is considered a seminal author in the sci-fi genre. His name is practically synonymous with sci-fi.

Foundation isn't his strongest work, but as you pointed out, it was also among his earliest work. His chops grew significantly the more he wrote.

Also, um...

>I'm a writer myself, and if write a book like this and send it off to traditional publishers, it will be rejected. Better books than this have been rejected or panned, so how does Asimov's book become a classic?

Have you read (or tried to read) Ready Player One? It's fucking abysmal, and yet it not only got published, it was turned into a HUGE hit. It makes Foundation look like Lolita. My point is that traditional publishers put out terrible garbage all the time. They don't make their decisions about what gets published based on merit; they make those decisions based on marketability. Source: I'm a writer, too--a pretty successful one, in fact.

Quite possibly this one.

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