Isaac Asimov is overrated
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Vynce
on February 20, 2007
I mean, yeah, he was breaking new ground, but really, he's often predictable and formulaic, and not much fn for the modern audience to read.
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His mysteries are awesome. And I loved his books. So :P
'Predictable' really isn't something I would associate with Asimov!
Also, he wrote a book with himself as comic relief, in which he bickers with his imaginary narrator-author in the footnotes.
I totally second Rachel's :P
I confess to leaving the default vote on here misleadingly, and doing so on purpose. I wanted to overcome any bias against being the first one to agree; perhaps I know too many psych geeks.
Too many? How can one know too many psych geeks?
If anyone knows too many psych geeks, it's Vynce.
I can't bring myself to say he's overrated, but I certainly found the last bunch of books in the foundation series dull, predictable and poorly written. Then again, the fact that I read them at all and continued reading the rest of the series says something about the brilliance of the first few books in it.
Perhaps 'patchy' would be a word I could agree with.
Early Assimov isn't overrated.
Later stuff (Foundation and Robots, Foundation and Foo, Foundation and Bar, Foundation and Roof...) isn't very good.
Yeah, i often wonder how involved he really was with some o fthe later books that had is name as co-author.
Hmm... considering the number of fields that Asimov participated in significantly (yes, that's 2 words), I'd have to take this claim at face value...