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jwharris28
Posted 2015-10-16 3:18 PM (#11504 - in reply to #9162)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1950s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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I decided to reread The Foundation Trilogy because they are available on audio book at my Scribd.com subscription library. I'm in the middle of the first book, Foundation, and it's painful to listen to, even though it has an excellent reader. The writing is primitive, which is to be expected because Asimov was very young, and he was writing for the pulps, but it's also bad because of the logic of the story. Nothing in the plot makes sense. Each story is set around a series of strawmen that Asimov has his character argue over, and then the actual solution is an unexpected twist. And to put so much faith in psychology is hard for us to believe now. Plus, there's lots of weird things to consider. How does the collapsing empire have interstellar space travel without atomic power? If the encyclopedia is a ruse, why is it quoted with so much reverence?

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