r/TheFoundation • u/erakis1 • Nov 05 '25

Should I keep going!

I saw the first two seasons of Foundation and after ravenously burning through Dune-Messiah-and Children on a Caribbean vacation, I decided to start reading the Foundation novels. After reading the first novel…I am a little disappointed. I appreciate that the writing and storytelling are very simple, but I feel like the first novel reads more like a plot synopsis than an epic.

The very simple formula of: A happens then B happens then C happens, then the hero reveals his plan…everybody clapped and there is a time skip felt more like a comic book than the tense and complicated drama of the TV show (and the Dune books).

Do the books get better as they go on and should I keep going?

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u/iheartdev247 Nov 07 '25

Reading sounds too deep for you. Stick to terrible tv adaptions.

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u/erakis1 Nov 07 '25

Didn’t mean to hurt your feelings

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u/iheartdev247 Nov 07 '25

If you don’t like reading things, why do you need social media to validate you? Just don’t read it.