Those long sentences are a tremendous challenge for audiobook voice artists, I can tell you that!
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Spoilers What Book Are You Reading?
- Thread starter Huntn
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
What is funny, I am at the point in the book were we are with the "traders"... Which to me haven't been able to bring it back around to the original idea of the "foundation". I shouldn't be so harsh on it, maybe my expectation was a little more than what it can deliver. That is not saying I don't like it, but it isn't quite what I expected. I think my big issue with this book, is the character building. We have a character who we are introduced to early on, you get to know him. Then there is a jump in time, without telling you and we are introduced to more characters... then there is a jump in time again, and more characters, but we never really hear or see the previous characters, except every 50 years or so we see a hologram of the first character.
I know you really like the books, but I am wondering if this type of jumping around is prevalent in the next book or two in the series?
if memory doesn’t fail me, first two books have quite some jumping, then it becomes more “linear”. I’ve read the like 20 years ago so I might be forgetting something. (Personally I prefer the Robot series).
Gotcha... I have a feeling my next book, will be one of the Robot series books!!!!!
I just purchased the first 3 books again on Kindle and finished the first 2 books in few days and am now almost finished the third.
I agree with you they do jump around a lot and possibly because they were the first books Asimov wrote and were "at first" a series of short stories published in 1942 to 1950 and put into book form later on
the third book is pretty much in one time period and focused on the one storyline as are the others that follow and add to the series.
Another Sci Fi book that has even more separate stories that finally weave together is Hyperion - another Hugo award winner and one of my favorite Sci Fi books.
How is it? Usually I'm not into biographies, but he is quite an interesting person.
Not too far yet, but he’s kind of what I expected. Super eccentric, difficult childhood.
Just finished Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami.
I enjoy Murakami, but this wasn't my favorite of his novels. It started out very interesting and then petered out into something very ordinary with a lot of loose ends. Seems like the first half of the novel was a lot of teasing with no payoff.
I enjoy Murakami, but this wasn't my favorite of his novels. It started out very interesting and then petered out into something very ordinary with a lot of loose ends. Seems like the first half of the novel was a lot of teasing with no payoff.
A House in the Sky. Canadian writer Amanda Lindhout's memoir of having survived abduction by insurgents in Somalia, being held for ransom for 460 days along with an Australian photojournalist kidnapped at the same time. One of her captors who had served as a "chief negotiator" was finally stung by law enforcement into a self-extradition to Canada and is now serving time in prison. The book is a chilling tale of the abrupt coming of age of a once naive young woman who had grown up in a dysfunctional family, eventually figured she'd probably seen enough of that and was more interested in seeing the worlds depicted in old copies of the National Geographic. As an experienced traveler in her late 20s, but as a relatively inexperienced freelance journalist, she was caught up in her more than year-long nightmare in a then lawless Somalia that some had warned her against even visiting. Extremely well co-written by Lindhout herself and by Sara Corbett, a journalist from the NYT Magazine. I've been reading this in just a few sittings, unable to put it down until I get bleary-eyed.
That makes sense... and that is a good reason as to why it jumps around a lot.
This sounds exceptionally interesting.
I'd imagine that her perspective must be fairly unique, and is informed both by personal experience having grown up in that family & the fact that she is a trained psychologist.
It is but I felt her views on his administration are really just as valuable as any citizens as she is just an observer as much as everyone else is.
She does paint a very dark picture about Fred Trump and a very sad and pathetic one for Donald. All very believable considering what we already know.
Saw this online. A reading station by Charles Hindley & Co, London c.1890. Beautiful.
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps (2020) by Ben Shapiro.
Well, I won't go into the actual arguments of the book because it would be impossible to not enter into PRSI territory.
Have I enjoyed the book? Yes.
Do I agree with the book? For the vast majority of the topics, yes.
Biggest surprises? 1) That it was more a history book than a "current events" book; from this point of view the title is slightly misleading 2) that it punched even Shapiro's side of the aisle.
Would I recommend it? Yes, to political nerds and those interested in a less mainstream but not wholly crazy point of view.
Well, I won't go into the actual arguments of the book because it would be impossible to not enter into PRSI territory.
Have I enjoyed the book? Yes.
Do I agree with the book? For the vast majority of the topics, yes.
Biggest surprises? 1) That it was more a history book than a "current events" book; from this point of view the title is slightly misleading 2) that it punched even Shapiro's side of the aisle.
Would I recommend it? Yes, to political nerds and those interested in a less mainstream but not wholly crazy point of view.
I am currently reading Undersea on my Kindle. So far, I'm liking it.
Undersea
In a world flooded and irradiated by a nearly forgotten cataclysm generations passed, all that remains of civilization clings to life in two war-torn, city-sized submarines. For fifty years, the only peace between them has come from separation. Now, young councilwoman Ralla Gattley has uncove...
www.amazon.com
As an Amazon Associate, MacRumors earns a commission from qualifying purchases made through links in this post.
It's lined up in the que.
It was mentioned in the film Tenure. Made me curious.
Red Mars
(Mars Trilogy #1)
by Kim Stanley Robinson
(Mars Trilogy #1)
by Kim Stanley Robinson