Get your house treated for termites. It's strange to me that you're more worried about your books than your house.

I, too, wasn’t crazy about Foundation but I don’t think it was bad literature. I actually thought it was well written because the author was able to get me to understand the complexity of psychohistory”.

It’s your hobby; do as you wish. I personally would prefer to end at a chapter than mid chapter if possible, just to keep the storyline straight.

TBF,, your example is more a political interpretation than an urban legend. A lot of high school freshman classes use the Wizard of Oz as an introduction to allegories. It can be viewed as a metaphor for the social,political, and economic events of America in the 1890s. I believe that's what you're referencing. An urban legend about the movie, for example, would be that one of the munchkins hung himself from a tree and can be seen briefly in the film.

10 fake internet bucks say it’s Atlas Shrugged.

Asimov is an ideas guy, his characters are all cardboard cutouts. That being said Foundation is terrible and it only gets worse as the series goes on, and on, and on. Every book ends with a Deus Ex Machina moment where the super smart scientists pull some shit out of their asses to prevail over the space barbarians. There's much better sci-fi from the same era.

Anna's death is great, but I would argue the chapter where she finally gives into Vronsky at Princess Betsy's is greater. There's so much tension in the will they won't they, and everyone knows that the moment she commits to him theres no turning back. Her death scene is amazing as well, but I felt pretty miserable about Anna by that point. She was a completely ruined woman which made it difficult reading through her sections, compared to the person she once was. Her suicide feels inevitable and ties up nicely with when she met Vronsky, but it was just so depressing.

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Nah, read the rest of the comments, man. They've said Asimov is "hardly a skilled writer" and "Austen isn't a very good writer."

I read the first fifty pages and found it a tiresome repetition of tradition realist international relation theory, which doesn’t hold up well under systematic hypothesis testing, so the “this is the profound nature of things” tone put me off. This is my academic specialty, so it just made me roll my eyes.

But I have certainly enjoyed others of his books.

Do you think physical vs mental isolation makes huge difference in described symptoms? Do you find it realistic?

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I treat the first book as a collection of short stories that tie together. The thread connecting them? The survival and gradual thriving of the Foundation. Problems with the stories: as a woman, the fact that women weren't even NPCs. (sort of a joke)

Many sci fi apocalyptic stories are just like this. A healthy community with decent resources, isolated by distance, and how they have to deal with the threat of the neighbors now that law and order have broken down. Granted, most of the time they're set in a country, or even an island on Earth.

Most memorable for me is chapter 5 of The Grapes of Wrath.

The Last Battle in A Memory of Light, the last book in The Wheel of Time.

To be fair, you're strawmanning him. He didn't say Asimov in totality is a bad writer; he said that one of Asimov's books is bad. That's a world of difference.

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this is the first book i’ve read by her wanted to see what all the hype was about definitely won’t be reading another book by her

Of course not! It’s a good habit to read the amount of pages you have time for and can concentrate on. You are doing the perfect amount for you. That’s an accomplishment, not a bad habit.

No one gives Colleen Hoover better publicity than women claiming they hate Colleen Hoover. Even as they proceed to read her entire bibliography.

Read however you want. I mainly read at night before bed. Sometimes I read 80 pages sometimes I'm too tired to read more than 10. It's not a contest. Do what works for you.

Me too, at how BAD it was!!! 😭😭😭

Being able to read at all is a good skill to have, and reading in and of itself is a good habit worth keeping. If only a few pages a day is what makes you happy, then more power to you. Enjoy.

Yes.

Not at all!!

First of all, doing something you enjoy in a way you enjoy it cannot be a bad habit!

And secondly, I think that’s a lovely commitment- it’s never a bad habit to read every day!

Hope you are having a great weekend ^_^