This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff

I liked Foundation just fine, but Asimov did have his writing quirks that didn’t quite sit right with me. Like, it’s been years since I sat down and read an honest-to-god fiction book, but at least my impression of Asimov’s writing from grade school was that he tended to write dryly at times (yup, not really enough character development for sure), and also had a tendency to jump straight to these far-reaching philosophical abstract concepts without looking close enough, for my satisfaction, to the nuts and bolts of how they work, or without leading up to them through the process of trial-and-error that defines most of how humans acquire knowledge. These concepts are great to talk and think about, but a bit of a slog to read.