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The two star rating just reflects what I think of the writing. I can't get over it, by space! And I can't bring myself to give it any more than that. I can get into the ideas, but not much more than if I had read about them in a political science textbook. Besides, it's got plenty of great ratings and near unanimous praise elsewhere. It can stand to have an asterisk warning about the writing, to say that, yeah, it really is that bad. Okay, thinking about it, it's bad writing in an honest way. It
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it had some unexpected plot twists, which really freaked me out, but overall it was okey. i'm guessing the triology as a whole will be better
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I kinda just started reading this as a sort of "classic" that I should read, but I really ended up enjoying it. I know this is more or less just a collection of connected short stories, but I really liked having a novel that spandex across centuries and didn't have a real main character (though Seldon is a presence throughout). Some of it is a little clumsy or on the nose, but I like the idea of psychohistory and the way the foundation operates. Fun read.
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