The Procrastinators Book Club discussion

Welcome to Foundation Buddy Read Discussion thread! This thread officially opens on July 13th and anyone can join at any time. Please keep in mind that spoilers are allowed in this thread but only up to the group's current reading place. Do not spoil the book if you've read further than the group. Any extra days can be used to catch up!

Each week we will be reading by chapters. The suggested Buddy Read discussion schedule is as follows:

Week of 7/13
Foundation
July 13: Part I
July 14: Part II
July 15: Part III
July 16: Part IV
July 17: Part V


PARTICIPANTS
~ Bopeep
~ Eléonore

I started reading it today, and though I just read 2 chapters, I liked the idea of "google maps irl" with a light on your path to follow (even if it's for short distances). It would be awesome!!

I usually read these books from a kind of philosofical way. So excuse me if you prefer to talk about the story...
Well, after reading chapter 6, the situation reminds me of climate change. It will happen and we all now it, but in some years instead of centuries. Some people are worried about that even if they won't be here, but others just thin the same as Chen: what does it matter to me if I won't be here?
And we all need to do something to change the situation, but it seems rare...

Bopeep wrote: "I usually read these books from a kind of philosofical way. So excuse me if you prefer to talk about the story...
Well, after reading chapter 6, the situation reminds me of climate change."

I feel the same too. I'm at the beginning of Part II and I already think that's one of the best book I've ever read. I love Gaal, he's really amusing. The writing is gorgeous and there's everything I like in a science fiction novel: the space, the resistance, the criticism of the society that is still relevant, intriguing characters...

Now I begin to find the characters dull with no evolution, too many things are told instead of suggested and I'm bothered by the lack of women.

Most book from that era, if not written by a woman or a love is needed, don't have women... And a scientific woman! What an idea! xD
From Asimov I prefer his short stories books like I, robot or Buy Jupiter. His longer stories are quite boring at some point.
By the way, my mind can't assimilate the idea of mixing science and religion. They are antonyms for me.

That's what I found most interesting in this book, mixing the two to manipulate the crowds, astute and still relevant.

also I like how anachronic this is, set in the future but the mentality of the 50s... I always picture the men there fat and smoking. Maybe that's too cliché but...

I finished it!

I think nowadays we aren't used to books with plain characters, with zero feminine characters -that woman didn't count for me :/-, little action and a lot of politics and strategy.
I don't think that's bad, just a different kind of thinking. And somehow, these are the theories of how nations are born and then disappear. It's nice to read this from time to time, different thinkings of what we think in our decade.