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Watching The Wheel of Time series has me wanting to power through Asimov's Foundation series so I can start jumping into those books. That is *a lot* of reading though, on the order of 10,000 pages and 4.3 million words. #WheelOfTime #literature #fantasy #scifi
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Kenny Chaffin
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I made it through 7 or 8 or ? of wot. Seemed very repetitive...
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silverwizard
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@Hank G ☑️ my warning: Don't watch the show! The foundation show is... hard to watch in the "this feels like it was written by an algorithm" way. But read both book series!
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Hank G ☑️
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@silverwizard Ironically it was the Foundation TV Show that got me interested in reading the books. I've already been forewarned on how radically different it is from the books. I'm only in the third book of the robot series, "The Naked Sun", according to Asimov's preferred reading order. It is obviously radically different, written in a time before integrated circuits at this point even. But it's still enjoyable.
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icastico
icastico
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Wheel of Time would be way better if it was 60% fewer words - so many wasted on talking about what the ladies are wearing or not, for example.
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Robert Biloute - on diaspora-fr.org
Robert Biloute - on diaspora-fr.org
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Jump directly into the books, I bet you'll never have enough pages of that candy
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Hank G ☑️
Hank G ☑️
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@RETECH Especially in the I, Robot compendium I had to grade on a huge curve for the limitations of imagination on digital electronics. There were still some gems in there. I'm half way through The Naked Sun and I felt like he was hitting a good stride.
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Hank G ☑️
Hank G ☑️
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The caricature of behaviors of women, and actually a lot of the characters, has been pretty bog standard mid-20th century fiction. He definitely wasn't stretching the imagination on that. I don't know what the premise of Foundation book is but I find the premise of the Foundation TV series of being able to mathematically predict things out thousands of years to be laughable. At first I thought it was because Asimov came up with this after chaos theory was being explored but IIRC he came up with it afterwards. So there isn't really an excuse.
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