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Joubert Vianna joubertvianna — i am about halfway, may never finish. we'll see. Update: i have decided to never finish, i just can't get into it.

Nuria Aventin naventin — I've read this before, but I like re-reading books periodically to remember exactly why I loved them the first time around.

Pascal Verstegen pascal4946 — must have read this 20 times during my wayward high school years - great history of mk ultra and hallucinogens

B Ge rlg — (Excerpts from -- http://www.sfreviews.net/foundation.html ) Foundation is one of those books that has become such a historical tentpole of the genre that it is easy to dismiss and take for granted, much in the same way young moviegoers today might find it hard to figure out all the fuss about Citizen Kane. But Foundation is not a book that's "great" simply because critics tell you it is. It really is a tremendously written and entertaining piece of sociopolitical SF combined with good old space opera, and its best attributes might seem quaint to today's readers until you realize just how beautifully they're executed. Asimov's blessedly clear prose, for example. When you consider over the decades how much SF has become overburdened by either vain style or cumbersome plotting masquerading as epic legendry, Asimov's concise words are a true breath of fresh air. Asimov knew perhaps better than anyone in this genre that writing was about communicating. Asimov wrote clearly, but not laconically. There is more than enough wit to go around. Most impressively, Asimov's plots were as intricate as any of today's best novelists'. Yet he still managed to keep his readers' heads free from confusion and frustration. The various chapters of this novel were in fact first published as short fiction in Astounding (the precursor to Analog), but Asimov melded them together into novel form seamlessly. Through three compelling characters — Seldon; the Foundation's mayor Salvor Hardin; the merchant prince Hober Mallow — the story of the Foundation's rise is told with surprisingly little overt action, but loads of incredibly entertaining political savvy. Readers who love "corridors of power" storytelling, with all of its machinations and suspense, will have a ball here. But Foundation's enduring fame and influence aren't just rooted in its plot. There is hardly a page in this work that doesn’t develop some exciting or provocative perspective on human affairs, group interactions, individual and social psychology, technology or values. Moreover, the ideas are always pushed farther than you expect, with second-order and third-order effects taken into account, almost the way archeologists develop far-flung implications from potsherds and broken tools.You don't get a whole lot (well, any) of exploding spaceships in this book. What you do get are characterizations and sociopolitics that continue to ring true 50 years later, all couched in a cracking good tale that whizzes along as if it were Star Wars. But in Foundation, Asimov helped set a real foundation indeed: the idea that good SF must engage the whole mind. My Rating -- 5/5

Leandro Colantoni leancolanbe9e — I started reading The Magic Treehouse series with my then 7 year old daughter. We enjoyed them very much and they really held her attention. Not really an adult read but they were still well written! I enjoyed many hours of them with her and would recommend them to any boy or girl.