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I really, really liked it. I don't know why that surprised me so much, but I did. I am now disappointed that there aren't any used copies of the rest of the series around, so I'm going to be forced to buy them new. I'm glad that Tim started me in the direction of the classic sci-fi, because it's been the perfect escapism lately.
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Foundation is the first of The Foundation Trilogy. I like reading Asimov. His chapters are short and his characters are interesting though not the primary part of the story. In Foundation we are taken through years of time in leaps and bounds. The protagonist is really the Foundation and the evolution of society. The story is about growth according to the science of psychohistory and the theory of Hari Seldon that crisis will force the evolution along to the future Empire.
Oct 24, 2012
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Foundation is a science fiction classic. It is about a civilization's evolution and one man's attempt to manipulate the future to avoid hundreds of thousands of years of turmoil (reducing it to only one-thousand). I really enjoyed the book since I am interested in politics and evolutions of societies. The book skips from time period to time period, from crisis to crisis, often skipping decades. The characters change with the times, thus there is no character that you can identify with or root fo
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I'm in a reading slump! This book has always been held up as one of the great science fiction novels of all time and it just bored me.
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Feb 28, 2017
Dianna
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it was ok
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Jun 17, 2009
Diane
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Nov 18, 2013
Teresa Young
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John Taylor
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