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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Solid and interesting start to a series I am excited to continue! I appreciate the way he wrote Dors and other women, without making it weird misogyny that sometimes exists in scifi
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I was excited to see Demerzel & a young Hari Seldom interacting, but the majority of the novel was (again) full of enigmatic quests, too much dialogue and questionable female characters. I didn't really enjoy this one. I liked the plottwist at the end but the novel was too long and boring for me. Sorry. 3 stars max...
challenging
slow-paced
Maybe a 3.5. The story was good, but I thought the protagonist was a bit of a, um, prick.
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
There's no doubt about it, Asimov was a fantastic storyteller who wrote good lead characters that you actually care about. In my introduction to Hari Seldon and the Foundation series I found no reason to dismiss that statement.
Prelude was extremely readable, despite it being twice the size of the empire trilogy books, and I found myself flying through the pages.
My only real criticism of the book (and probably all of the Asimov books) is the lack of payoff. Everything is told at the exact same tempo with no room for dramatic finales which leaves a flat feeling as the book finishes.
Seldon feels like Lije Baley to a certsain extent here and his adventures almost mirror [b:The Robots of Dawn|41810|The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #4)|Isaac Asimov|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320440118s/41810.jpg|905286] apart from the fact that Baley led whilst Seldon was seemingly pushed around from open to close, going anywhere the plot required him to be.
Whilst it's nice to have Daneel back in a novel, to have him there in such a background role isn't as much fun as when he seemed to take the lead in [b:Robots and Empire|76688|Robots and Empire (Robot, #5)|Isaac Asimov|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170899626s/76688.jpg|1932588].
Good fun.
Prelude was extremely readable, despite it being twice the size of the empire trilogy books, and I found myself flying through the pages.
My only real criticism of the book (and probably all of the Asimov books) is the lack of payoff. Everything is told at the exact same tempo with no room for dramatic finales which leaves a flat feeling as the book finishes.
Seldon feels like Lije Baley to a certsain extent here and his adventures almost mirror [b:The Robots of Dawn|41810|The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #4)|Isaac Asimov|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320440118s/41810.jpg|905286] apart from the fact that Baley led whilst Seldon was seemingly pushed around from open to close, going anywhere the plot required him to be.
Whilst it's nice to have Daneel back in a novel, to have him there in such a background role isn't as much fun as when he seemed to take the lead in [b:Robots and Empire|76688|Robots and Empire (Robot, #5)|Isaac Asimov|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170899626s/76688.jpg|1932588].
Good fun.
It was intriguing until I suddenly stopped caring. With interesting worlds and a true classic of a sci-fi novel (the author is, at least, a legend in the genre), I found that it lacked in many areas that can probably just be blamed on times having changed. Dialogue, characterizations etc. I also got this image of the book that ended up not aligning with the actual plot, which disappointed me, which I know is unfair to the novel but I can't help it. I'd be interested in reading the first book in the series, since this is a prequel, but not anytime soon.
This is actually my first time hearing a story by this author and he has a very interesting style and I feel like if I was to read his work without knowing it was his I could connect it to it. The story is kind of like short stories yet not. He does a very interesting job of following him. I like that he had to go around too many different planets to kind of gauge how the kingdom is and this book gives good insight into how the empire is doing and that before Foundation the empire was not great and even though they have a very prosperous capital does not mean that they don’t have the regular problems that we hear onearth do. Now. I didn’t realise he helped the empire as much as the book told me granted I have only watched the TV show which is amazing. Also I love that he’s trying to find the existence of Earth and how it was where we originated from and that we most likely would have forgotten where human beings came from what my curiosity is. Are there other creatures other than humans that are as intelligent as humans but clearly not because everyone is derived from human beings from Earth it poses a lot of questions about why Earth is no longer findable but we could’ve just like exploded or something but I think the robot series would give us an answer maybe?