![]() What does Scott Brick bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? To me, that symbolizes that nothing is safe, everything has the potential to fall, and it allows for an immense suspension in disbelief. (Minor spoiler ahead) However, I like this book because it casts a bit of doubt on the most over-arching of all plots in the Foundation storyline. In many ways they have to that's the only way to provide cohesiveness for the reader. Let me explain stories that have an immense scope of time and space (Foundation series is a good example of this) tend to assign divine characteristics to some overarching characters or sub-plots. In many ways it was nice to have the difficult names and words pronounced out loud in the audible version, however, it is equally satisfying to turn a physical page in your hands to see what's next in a story. I would consider them to be the same it depends entirely upon the tastes of the reader/listener. Would you consider the audio edition of Foundation and Empire to be better than the print version? However read Prelude to Foundation last, which is largely background information. I suggest reading reading the Robot Series and the Galactic Series first, then delving into the Foundation Series. Audible has done a great job with the Asimov books. The fun is in keeping track of it all, in a world that Asimov has built just for you. These books are logical puzzles, with lots of characters and sub-plots. He was great in the Dune Series and his work here is equally well done.ĭid you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry? I think he is terrific, he lends the right tone of drama to material that lends itself to that type of delivery. I have read some negative reviews of Scott Brick and I don't get it. Have you listened to any of Scott Brick’s other performances before? How does this one compare? The audible version is stellar and these books (Foundation Series) are a must read for any fan of Sci Fi or speculative ficiton. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? Foundation Foundation and Empire Second Foundation Foundation's Edge Foundation and Earth Prelude to Foundation Forward the Foundation Enjoy! This is the proper and expected order in which to read them. ![]() For anyone not willing to type the words "foundation series published order" into Google, below is the published order of the series. For example, there are essentially "spoilers" in prequels that will ruin mystery and suspense created in the books published earlier in the series. The author expects you to read them in PUBLISHED order, so that is what you should do for maximum effect. Chronological order is interesting but not terribly useful, because you do not want to read them that way. NOT the date the audio version was published - the date the ORIGINAL BOOK was FIRST published. Keeping them ordered by original book publication date within the grouping would also be VERY helpful. That would make it easy to buy them all at once too. It would really be nice to be able to add all books in a series to my wish list with a single click, and for those books to remain grouped together in the wish list so it is clear that they are all members of the same series. it would not hurt my feelings if Audible would include both the chronological order and published order of books that belong to a series. This is made even easier by the fact that this is one of the most famous serials written during the entire 20th century in any genre, and at least in the top 5 of most famous science fiction serials of all time. Secondly, it would have taken you all of 5 minutes to discover not only the series to which this book belongs, but also the published order of all the books in the series, with a simple Google or Wikipedia search. You are supposed to review the quality of the work, not vent your frustration at being unaware that the book is part of a series. To Joseph: First of all, it is misleading and unhelpful to give a book a poor rating because you didn't realize it was part of a trilogy. What follows would more appropriately be entered as such a comment, but it's here because there is no other way to respond to existing reviews. First, I wish that I could comment on reviews that others have written like I can on Amazon. ![]() I have some comments that relate to frustrations I encountered while reading reviews for this book. You can find millions of words written about these books all over the Internet. ![]() Books in the original Foundation trilogy need no introduction they have stood the test of time and are broadly accepted as some of the greatest masterpieces in the science fiction genre.
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