Adventure, great dialog, growing up, what does this book not have that's awesome?

Started out liking it, but then finished the feeling that while it was a great read, I didn't get all of it and so I just stared there looking at the floor while my landlords were like 'what is wrong?' and I couldn't tell them. Mitchell's writing is awesome, I love how each story connected, but not how most of them ended.

For a math book, this was awesome. It got me to laugh, and understand calculus better.

Rereading this series and loving it possibly more as an adult than as a child. The adventures are just as exciting and the morals more meaningful.

Like all story collections, there are good stories and bad stories. I loved the opportunity to read stories from other countries, but only a handful really interested me and so at times I had to remind myself I was in the middle of reading this. Still, I love the project.

This book seemed very formulaic to many other YA books out there right now. Girl just wants to be a normal hs student, meets new boy who moved to town, has a strange encounter with him, he's missing the next day, finds out he's special, and wow, she is too!

I've always been a fan of mythology, especially greek, but the idea of demigods has been done before and honestly, Angelini doesn't add much to the niche genre. I found the reveals to be for the most part not surprising. Sure, I read this is just over a day, but I didn't have much else to do on the bus. It's a quick read, mainly because it's so simple. Sometimes, that's all you need.

I think Asmiov is my new favorite author. I've heard much about the reputation of this book, and it's author, but figured it would be really dry and I wouldn't be able to get through it like most of the book covered in my SF literature class in uni. It also didn't help that Asmiov's own author's note at the beginning also talked about 'things not happening' and I was settling in for a good long time, months most likely, maybe 6 of them, of reminding myself to read it.

But it wasn't like that at all.

Thing do happen, but it's very rarely a thing of action. In fact, one of the main points is that crises will come but avoiding them is never a thing of violence. Now, it's much more clever than that.

For those who don't know the premiss (and I actually didn't when I picked this up), the Empire is dying. It's unavoidable, the dark ages are coming. But Hari Seldon has predicted that for years with his science of studying the masses, and he can see a path that shortens the dark ages from 30,000 years to a single thousand. In order to do that, he creates the Foundation, whose sole purpose is the shorten the time until the rise of the next Empire.

It's not an easy task. With the Empire crumbling and the loss of knowledge creeping towards the center from the edge of the Empire's territory, there are pressures, threats, and war. And the Foundation must avoid them all to stay alive, a hub of knowledge, to end the turbulent period.

And how they do it – ah, fabulous. Genius. Asimov had to have been one himself with all the events and sideways moves the leaders of the Foundation pull. This is a book filled with political movements, bluffs, conversations filled with undercurrents, as well as a study in the development of any developed governing body.

Seriously, my AP History teacher should add this book to his syllabus. (Asimov's multiple readings of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire greatly influenced this series).

This book barely covers the first 100 years of the dark ages, but already the Foundation has kept itself alive through a variety of forces. I loved reading about all the conflicts that came, simply for their solutions because there were all so unexpected and yet so perfect. They were years in the making, but not obvious until the right hour. There are so many layers to the characters, to the actions, there there was no way reading this could be a bore.

I've been holding off on starting the second book in the series, simply because I have three others open at the moment, but it's very hard. I know how the series ends, that was established early on, and there is no character or planet dangling on the edge of action, the cliffhanger for more. I simply want to see how things happen, since I already know the conclusion.

Foundation, is quite simply, an fun book whose entertainment comes not from humor but from the intellectual stimulus.

I think this was a better read as an adult than as a child. This series is just wonderful for everyone.