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Note: There’ll probably be some spoilers in this post, as I’m reviewing four books in a series at once. If you’d like to play it safe, the review for the first book should be spoiler-free enough to read. Not sure about the others.

Also, this’ll probably be a lengthy post. Stick with me, eh?

An intro

I’ve never read any of Isaac Asimov’s works, though I was familiar with them through some of the film adaptations. I have a couple of his books– gotten through library books sales for a pittance– but I was actually on the verge of putting them on Bookmooch because I had had them for around three years and never read a one. But then I needed some books for the Final Frontier reading challenge, and remembered I had the first three books in the Foundation trilogy lurking on my shelves.

So I read them. And then I read the fourth. And though that one knocked me off my stride a bit (you’ll see why soon), I think I’m going to continue reading the series until I get bored or disillusioned. It’s fun, for the most part, and it makes me feel just generally awesome to read Asimov.
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