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Edit to say: Do you have doubts to start this book? If you don't care about spoilers, you can read my short review first:

The story is well written, but as a person with limited friend circle (read 2) and poor communication skills I am offended that this book considers my life worthless and tries to say whoever being well-known and liked by the majority has a worthier life! And the author tries to cover this scam by a romance story!

Isn't this familiar to you?!

1) Black Mirror, Season 3, Episode 1: If you are liked by more people, you'll be able to communicate with high class ones, you'll be richer and can buy a house or a car and etc. so you are worthy.

2) Every natural beautiful Gen Z has a TikTok account and is loved by the majority for something (their face) they didn't even create THEMSELVES while LIP-SYNCING a song they haven't even written nor composed. They would still get richer than they are now if they sell their lifetime!!

Even if I had read this book before not-counted-as-talent Gen Z things becomes popular, I still wouldn't have liked this book. Nobody is allowed to judge how worthy my life is. I am the only person in charge who can achieve my goals and be happy.
So, NO.

Eine süße Geschichte :>

Look, I don't have any problem with overtly sexual scenes in books as long as they serve a purpose. The last couple of Gladia and Baley's encounters simply did NOT, and the descriptions of them were like a horny incel's fan fic; bizarre and disturbing.
I loved the last twist though, and everything before Gladia and Baley's odd encounters.

Every year since I was 4, my uncle would take me to an international book fair. But life shifted, I went there with other people, then by myself and eventually, I moved away.

This year, when the fair came around again, I knew even if I were there, it couldn't possibly feel the same — but I still wanted to feel connected. I came across this book that is about the magic of reading books as a child.

It felt like a quiet tribute to my past, a kid without friends and without being able to actually visit exciting places and go on adventures. Even as a teen there was nothing to do other than reading books. Books have been all I've known.

Now I'm glad to have the possibility to experience life and to have my own adventures but this book is a gift to the big part of me that saved me from madness and horror of the environment I've been raised in.

Never knew double sided book existed (I'm new to this). So cool and important to define such a story. The part of me who still has a slight of hope bought this.

Meh. Ich erwartete mehr. Nur eine erste Antwort bringt ja nichts. Das Kind kann das schon. Ich erwartete Beispiele mit richtigen Dialogen, wo man sieht, wie die Bullys danach reagieren und einfach unsere Dinge nicht zurückgeben oder uns weiter schlagen. Oder wie die Eltern sich reagieren sollen und wie sie mit dem Kind umgehen sollen. Was tun dann? Das ist wichtiger!

Definitely worth the wait!
(My inner child would want a Disney 2D film!)

I wish it was that simple bro!

The hardcover has a proper dimension, not too small not too big.

Very cute graphic!

This is the second time I read this book, after about five years, and for the first time in English.

I had forgotten all about the plot twist.

It kinda bothers me that Asimov didn't consider any "digital paperwork" or "security camera"s, like brooooo, haven't you read 1984?! It's okay to use that idea when you're writing about the Earth 12000 years in the future!!!

But since it's his first novel and it's very much ahead of its time, and written before the whole Foundation series and 30 years before him actually binding his books into a series, I turn a blind eye on this one.

And also because civilizations rise and fall like the Burnt City of Persia and Mesopotamia. That's how many things have to be rediscovered and reinvented every time, unfortunately.

Asimov's sexual fantasies of young beautiful women is not that strong here thank god.

The plot is everything. The characters are not cool though.

AND OMG I FINALLY FINISHED THIS BOOK NOW I CAN GO TO FOUNDATION SERIES I CAN'T WAIT

(The cover design still irrelevant! Why?! WHY?)

GREAT GALAXY!

I DID IT! I FINALLY READ THE MAIN TRILOGY! SIZZLING SATURN! (2 more books still left of the greater series of the Robot-Foundation!)

I'm not very good at guessing mysteries because of my trust issues and that I expect anything from anyone. I learned it the hard way, and through this great series (with this book being the 15th one), to unlearn guessing mysteries of a story that its focus isn't necessarily a detective story but a sociological story. I let the mysteries get unraveled before me. Of course some of the mysteries of the main trilogy were known to me by reading the 2 prequels (chronological order) but that didn't take the fun of it, partly due to the 15 years yearning to find these books and partly because of the passion I've always had for space and sci-fi.

I haven't read many mystery books but have watched a great deal of movies and series focused on mystery and crime. With all that, the mysteries of the great series of Robot-Foundation are still unique to me.

I gotta take 0.5 star because of the primitive technology on Terminus. I expected Terminus to be way more than this in year 377!

And wait, what happened to the Time Vault? Was it destroyed by The Mule???

Man! I wish there were more stories like this! Just because the Second Foundation took over and there will be times of peace and the new empire, it doesn't mean there aren't any stories to tell! I know I know, I'm being desperate and needy haha. He stopped at the right stop.

I do hope the 2 sequels are as good as the prequels! Let's gooooooo! Foundation's Edge!