Foundation

As anyone that knows me can tell you, I love to read. I have boxes of books that I currently don't have a place for, but can't bare to get rid of them.

Growing up in my parents house was like living in a library. My dad even has a journal specifically for checking books and movies out so he knows where things are at all times. He seems to always have something lent out to some person or another. When I was little, my mom owned a book store. I am pretty sure that is how they were able to gain such a good supply of books, but they already had the desire to read and their library continues to grow without them owning a bookstore.

So I grew up enjoying books. I ended up reading a lot of science fiction and fantasy as that is what my dad had around that wasn't non fiction or LDS related. Most of it I wasn't able to read until I was older. The funner, less investing storylines were mostly what I read as a teen, though not always.

Shortly after I came home from my mission I began reading as much as I could. I think I read around 25 books during my first 2 or 3 months home. During that time I finally decided to read all the books in Isaac Asimov's Robots and Foundation series. I truely enjoyed the whole story line.

Several weeks ago I was sitting in my Statistics class thinking about how most of the stuff that is taught in classes like that, are things thta were discovered and solved centries earlier. It seems like there isn't much of that going on today. If there is, the common person doesn't know about it. We are oblivious. This led me to think about what happens when things are just being taught and nothing is is being solved, new issues being ignored.

After a minute of thinking on this, I realized that my thought came from my reading of the Foundation books. This is a cause for all that happens in these books. This got me wanting to read again.

So i am now reading one of the Foundation books. foundation's Fear was not written by Isaac Asimov. After he passed away, his estate let three prominant science fiction authors try to finish the story that Asimoc had created. They did a great job, but I am not sure how true they were to Asimov. I enjoy reading the story, but will have to wait on any judgment. I may never because I enjoy the overall story so much.