You have no idea what you're talking about. The Foundation is the most pure sci Fi books you could read. Modern sci Fi doesn't understand this stuff.

My first and definitely last book by this author. I will say it was at least very easy to read. I didn’t hate maybe the first third or so. It got so stupid

I read it off a TikTok recommendation and I was looking for something cuckoo. It did not disappoint. It reminded me of something that would have been word of mouth viral in middle school = exactly what I hoped TikTok would deliver.

Nothing better than picking a book based on its spine, then judging them based on the cover. Oh yes, I judge a book by its cover. Open aforementioned cover to find reviews. If a newspaper from a city I’ve lived in made the cut it’s a purchase. Well, I’ll at least hold on to it as I walk around wondering if I need the book. And what about the classics? Should I finally read that penguin classic edition of the book I vaguely recall as seminal? Better double back and see if they have my holy grail, Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker.

Lmao a few friends started recommending Hoover’s books to me a while back, they all said to read verity, so I did and omg lol I also didn’t think it was a particularly great read. I really wanted to rip on that book to my friends but they’re all fairly new to reading and they loved it so much, I just shut my mouth and let them enjoy it but secretly hated it.

Chapter 33 - East of Eden

There are very few specific chapters that I can remember so vividly. I can remember general events and such but no one chapter has stuck in my mind like this one. Tom Hamilton is a minor character in the overall novel but this chapter goes very in depth on him in a way that I still think about.

>!The last line of the chapter, “He was a gallant gentleman.”, makes me sad every time I remember it.!<

My favorite used bookstore in college was an unorganized mess. It was barely separated into genres, and not at all after that. I saw one person walk out in disgust, since they couldn't find what they were looking for.

I loved it. If books are sorted by author, I quickly lose interest in browsing. This way I was forced to basically spend hours looking at each book to see if it's something that struck my fancy. I totally loved that place.

There's a wonderful secondhand bookshop in Alnwick, Northumberland. Barter Books. It's set in an old Train Station, and is well worth a visit.

Same. I can spend hours exploring used bookstores and I’m really lucky because there’s a lot of great ones near me.

I'm not talking about the quality of individual books. I'm talking about the selection. Your Barnes and Noble will only have a sliver of the books that have "been through a few printings," while carrying a much higher percentage of the books that have recently been released.

Some people, not me of course, just have a borderline (not borderline) book fetish. An old hardcover book? That old book smell? Oh my.

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All you need to do is remove the spaces around !

Instead of this >! the...lives. !< it should be this &gt;!the...lives.!<

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how dare you forget about our beloved RYLE KINCAID?

Jesus Christ even my spell check marked both of his names in red *eyerolling*

Welp, I'm definitely gonna read this now.

Part 1 was written by 1605 and it's the first 52 chapters (there even an "ending") The second part is the remaining and it was written 10 years later and on this one Quixote is aware he's a character on the first publication.

The entire outlook of Foundation is that it has a different look at what really matters in history and the outcome of the story beyond the individual. This is generally in contrast to a typical fictional story or even how we often tell our history which looks at individuals and their impact and importance. I think this way of thinking is actually becoming more relevant in modern story telling and history. Even if they still hold to some of the traditional story telling traditions of focusing on individuals.

It is unlikely Asimov gets this story written without being a known quantity. It is unusual. It isn't going to necessarily appeal to a broad audience. It is a classic in literature in large part due to the way it breaks from traditional story telling molds. Things are not classics because they are for everyone.

> Also, I couldn't help but notice that the voice of Verity in her manuscript and her phrases were super similar to the speaking style of Lowen. Like... every person's personality and mannerisms felt the same.

that's been a longstanding problem of CH. she just can't write different characters. if you have read the It Ends With Us duo, you'd probably agree with me that the letter of a 30-something Atlas sounds exactly the same as the diaries of the 16yo Lily, not to mention they talk the same too.

Why do you think that it's the author and not the character she wrote that finds it cute?

Pretty much agreed on all fronts.

A lot of classic "Big Idea" sci-fi was like this, terrible as a book and as a work of fiction. Awful pacing, wooden characters, mouthpiece characters spouting exposition dialogue that no real person would ever say outside of an academic lecture.

Their value lay in the provocative ideas they explored and how the tried to look at the impact of social and technological change on humanity.

Of course, now we know that psychohistory is complete BS, history is not deterministic: Uncertainty and chaos reign.

But nonetheless, Foundation remains important because it is such a formative SF work, and had such a vast influence on the next century of SF that followed it.

I live in Salem, Oregon. The best bookstore in the world is just 60 miles away in Portland........Powell's. But in poor, little, backwater Salam we have a bookstore that is worth a 60 mile drive....Escape Fiction

I know the Barnes & Noble in South Burlington, VT had a decent-sized used book section. I haven’t been since 2019 so I can’t confirm it is still there. It was in the Annex with new books they had on clearance. I’m yet to find another B&N that does this.

Where was the used bookstore in PA? I live near Philly so you have me curious now 😂

Your "strategy" to get through Don Quixote reminds me of mine, to get through War and Peace. I read it piecemeal, in the bathtub, over two years (nearly).

2 pages is better than zero pages.