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Foundation by Isaac Asimov is blowing my mind! 2016-08-24 20:37:28 Post No. 8433197
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Foundation by Isaac Asimov is blowing my mind!
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2016-08-24 20:37:28
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Foundation by Isaac Asimov is blowing my mind!
So I am not normally a reader, and by that i mean i have not sat down and read a book in like 5 years at least. likely because i work IT and read all day on the PC.
anyways i was at the bookstore randomly with my girl last month and i see this book with a really intriguing cover, the foundation trilogy all in 750 pages, large hardcover book with gold pages and a built in bookmark. i looked up the plot and it sounded kind of interesting.
a month goes by and i end up in the same book store to buy a magazine, and i saw the book again and i was like "screw it ill just buy it". Boy am i glad i did. I read 100 pages as soon as i got home. my mind was literally blown with every page turn. I cheered in some parts, out loud, over a book....lol. I
t just astounds me how a book written primarily though the 1940s is still SO relevant today. The theories of psychohistory are so well fleshed out they nearly sound like they could be a legitimate statistical mathematics.
The idea that man has gathered so much data over the 12,000 year reign of the empire that they can use that data to accurately predict futures is just such solid foundation for a story. Then how it kind of just flips into the future with totally new characters that relate to the old ones.
The excerpts from the Encyclopedia Galactica. It is just one of the most enthralling pieces of literature I have ever set my eyes on, and it made a dude who hasnt read a book in 5 plus years read a book. just wanted to share my experience as i feel like i will be reading all of these! I am also not finished totally yet so no spoilers in the discussion if any plz
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Holy crap, this is weird to see on Reddit today. My hardcover of the whole trilogy had sat on my shelf untouched for the last two years but I just finally sat down to read it last night. I've been completely absorbed every since!
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>>8433209
hell yeah how far are ya? did you get that badass purple hardcover with the man sitting and the gold pages with the built in bookmark? such a beautiful piece of art. you look at it and you want to read it.
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>>8433197
Good for you, OP. If you'd like a quick additional mind-blowing, try this:
http://multivax.com/last_question.html
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Right, it's one of the first times where my speed of reading was hampered by need to keep looking and touching the cover. I started late last night and have only had a few good patches of subway commuting to read since, but I'm just to the part where Seldon is explaining that his was plan all along to be exiled to Terminus. Its got that old a I fi feel that I've been unknowingly nostalgic for, that sense of futurism that came out of a McCarthyism era fear of g-men, at least that's what the empire reminds me of so far.
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>>8433197
I have the foundation trilogy book, I haven't touched it since I bought it, I noticed there is couple of books to read before this one, which order would /lit/ recommend?
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>>8434792
If you mean the foundation series. In release order as always
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