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I only skimmed F451. The teacher who assigned it to us taught it from Cliff's Notes because she couldn't be bothered to read it herself; why should I do any different?
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I was absent from school with medication related illnesses for the majority of the reading. I find it hard to read when I am asleep, or druged up, or so emotional that I cry when Voyager comes on the tele.
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Voyager makes me want to cry sometimes too.
And yes, I'll agree that Asimov's characters were at times just talking plot devices. Two books had a man who was never wrong, it was the driving force behind the entire plot, and NOBODY bothers to ask how this can possibly be! But Asimov could also rise above that. Read "Prelude to Foundation" and "Forward the Foundation" to see that. "The Gods Themselves" for an earlier example. Or "The Bicentennial Man" and "The Ugly Little Boy", among other short stories. And even when his characters were just advancing the plot, the plots were pretty damned good.
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I had a hard time caring about the plots. I tried the Foundation books after my dad bought them for me. It was like eating ash, so I sold them.
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I read a short story once, I think by Asimov. Algernon? I think the name was. A nice little story about a mentally slow man who is made smart along with a lab rat. They both die however. Sad.
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That's not Asimov.
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And, whether it sucked or not, the proposal of the Transformers live-action movie as evidence for this NOT being a Dark Age of Sci-Fi is inherently depressing. It's like when someone here said "I DO read Sci-Fi - for example, I've read all the X-Files novels!"
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I guess I'd rather eat 'ash' as opposed to watch a two story robo-car not be seen in the open, since it appears the neighbors do not look out there windows.
Timing sequences like that, example, dragon wars, where the evil serpent is at the window and the shrink turns around too late to see it. So freaking cheesy.
SG-1 not so good movie. SGA spin off and pretty dullish now BSG rehash Tranformers reshash Flash Gordon bleh, Flesh Gordon could be a better alternative.
Sci Fi today bleh
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I didn't say the rest of that was any good, either. In fact, I've seen none of it.
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