100% agree, just listened to it recently and wow was it boring. That and Foundation, thought since liked the show that I’d like the books, wrong. Those are the only 2 books so far that I just couldn’t get into. But I suffered through to the end with both. Even started the second Foundation book and then asked myself why I was torturing myself.
LOL! totally agree about foundation. It was like he was so busy imagining the universe that he forgot to write a story. I Have been a big fan of the show though.
Asimov was a sexist pig, so if you vibe with that, his writing is enjoyable. Otherwise, reading his works is a chore. Often prescient, but still a chore.
I feel like before a certain era, all white men were sexist pigs. It was the patriarchy and that’s what they knew. Does that mean we shouldn’t acknowledge the works of writers before things changed? Of course not. Anyway my problem with him wasn’t his paper doll female characters, it was his 1930’s “golden era of sci fi” style writing. I can forgive antiquated social understanding, but not shit writing. I think Asimov was way overrated because he had a mind for world building but was kinda shit at actually having a story to tell.
I’m sorry, but I just don’t agree. I love 70s sci-fi, and have aread a huge collection of weird books… But none of them have prose as good as some of the modern books, such as The Final Architecture, The Expanse, or even Red Rising.
If I remember right the first couple of books were originally published as a series of short stories in a sci-fi magazine and sometime later were compiled into novels. That’s why the books seem a bit disjointed where they’ll suddenly just jump ahead in time to some new setting.
100% agree, just listened to it recently and wow was it boring. That and Foundation, thought since liked the show that I’d like the books, wrong. Those are the only 2 books so far that I just couldn’t get into. But I suffered through to the end with both. Even started the second Foundation book and then asked myself why I was torturing myself.
LOL! totally agree about foundation. It was like he was so busy imagining the universe that he forgot to write a story. I Have been a big fan of the show though.
Asimov was a sexist pig, so if you vibe with that, his writing is enjoyable. Otherwise, reading his works is a chore. Often prescient, but still a chore.
I feel like before a certain era, all white men were sexist pigs. It was the patriarchy and that’s what they knew. Does that mean we shouldn’t acknowledge the works of writers before things changed? Of course not. Anyway my problem with him wasn’t his paper doll female characters, it was his 1930’s “golden era of sci fi” style writing. I can forgive antiquated social understanding, but not shit writing. I think Asimov was way overrated because he had a mind for world building but was kinda shit at actually having a story to tell.
And it’s worth remembering what decade it was written in, a lot of the older prose and pacing hasn’t aged well.
That’s just not true. I’d say it was generally better back then (and prior)
I’m sorry, but I just don’t agree. I love 70s sci-fi, and have aread a huge collection of weird books… But none of them have prose as good as some of the modern books, such as The Final Architecture, The Expanse, or even Red Rising.
Are we just talking about sci-fi? Because it’s not exactly known for having the best prose.
I was referring more to like actual literary classics. Have you ever read Nabokov? Shit is insane, and English wasn’t even his first language.
If I remember right the first couple of books were originally published as a series of short stories in a sci-fi magazine and sometime later were compiled into novels. That’s why the books seem a bit disjointed where they’ll suddenly just jump ahead in time to some new setting.
Yea, I was thinking pretty explicitly of SciFi, from the 60s/70s vs modern SciFi.