The Foundation Trilogy

I have to admit, when I first read this book (probably sometime around age 15), I didn't really understand much of what was going on. I remember reading it partly because it was supposed to be a "classic," but mainly because it had a cool cover. The overall ideas and themes interested me, but the dense exposition, foreign settings and growing list of minor characters (whose names I had trouble pronouncing) were just a little too much for my impatient teenage mind to process. Maybe it was because it was one of the first real science fiction novels I'd read and I just wasn't accustomed to the peculiarities of the genre. Either way, I'm glad that I gave it a second chance later in life.