Wish I had the extra dough laying around but paying off one surgery and have another scheduled for 11/19 plus still need to upgrade my iPhone 6. I already dropped HBO Max and Starz. I now tend to binge and then drop a service for another. I like the freedom of the ala carte method anyway.
Nate has become a complete Arse!
Statistically that seems unlikely.
Nate has become a complete Arse!
Or Nate on Maid?
He’s a snake!Nate has become a complete Arse!
Just into episode #1 of Foundation but am already very unsure what I'm watching. I've seen more emotion in the first 10 minutes than in an entire Asimov book. I've read these books 15 years ago, but other than the names of places and characters, I recognize nothing of the story from the books.
The visual language pulls a lot from Dune to The Expanse. Which is generally a good thing. The irony is that the way Trentor was described mirrors Kamino from Star Wars (I think Lucas may have borrowed the visuals from those descriptions).
Same for me. I remember reading the books, but not much detail. I've watched episodes 1-3 so far and like the show enough to keep watching, though there's a lot that doesn't make sense. One reason why I loved Arthur C. Clarke's writing was that the stories always seemed plausible. I wish someone had done something with the Rama series on film or TV.
ACK was a magnificent writer. I've read Rendezvous with Rama right after giving up on the last Foundation book about 16 years ago. Switching from Asimov to Clarke I found him much harder to read and too wordy with his description, but enjoyed the Rama book regardless. I got a great kick out of the description of Tripedal Locomotion. About 5 years later I started Rendezvous with Rama as an audiobook a few years later and I was dumbfounded how much I failed to appreciate the logic and coherence in ACK's writing.
The books aren't written sequentially either. I've read them in the book's chronology but Asimov went back and forth:
But he didn’t reference Prelude in, say, Foundation and Empire. I actually read the original trilogy as a single bound book first, followed immediately by Foundation’s Edge. The only reason I remember exactly is because I read them while pregnant and right after the birth of my son in 1983. The others I read as they were released.
