Tried to get through the Foundation trilogy.
Couldn’t buy into the premise, thought the writing was juvenile, dialog sounded like it had been produced by a computer program. Made it through about the first thirty pages, then gave up for good.
I think you have to take Asimov’s style in context of the 1950’s when most of it was either written or formulated. Look at what passed for sci fi on film back then.
I still own Pebble in the Sky by him which i bought at a school book fair in 3rd grade. Thats 1963 if my math is right.
I read “second Foundation”, then went back to the first two, Couldn’t get into either, but I liked “Second Foundation” a lot.
One of the things that kills the Foundation series for modern readers is that chaos theory really puts the big kibosh on the entire idea of ‘psychohistory’. Funny thing is, chaos theory was derived by folks attmpting to work out long-term weather prediction among others. The more honest scientists of the time understood the writing on the wall when they saw it and recognised that the dream of weather control and prediction in any chaotic system like the earth’s atmosphere was ultimately futile. Sadly, many ‘scientists’ today have decided to completely disregard the lessons learned, in order to push their pet theories.
Next time you are arguing with a AGW supporter, ask them if they have ever heard of the phrase “sensitive dependence upon initial conditions”. Then laugh at their blank look.