You may actually be right, I haven’t really watched the show as I don’t have Apple TV. But it annoys me to no end they’d use the namez say it’s based on the books, and do something different rather than an adaptation.
I didn’t know that the “The Man in the High Castle” (supposed to be based on a novel by Philip K. Dick) show was just about the setting and they came up with their own story. I was so pissed off after watching the first episode.
I was actually wondering why they even went with “The Man in the High Castle” since it’s a strange and superficially depressing novel (even by the standards of PKD). There are much better choices for a series or a movie based on PKD’s work.
That’s why I didn’t bother with the Foundation series (I am a big Asimov fan). I don’t mind a re-interpretation of a literary work, but it has to be creative and mind bending while conceptually (and philosophically?) engaging with the themes from the literary work.
Hey, I was a fan of Asimov’s genius when I was a kid, but that was some time ago, and I remember only The Gods Themselves. As I read it many times, that’s my favourite. Are there any others you’d recommend? I mean, of course I plan to enjoy them all. But perhaps there are some recommendations for a stranger to read this, and then that, and then something else too.
Funnily enough “The Gods Themselves” themselves is my favorite Asimov novel. It’s very memorable. Doesn’t feel like an Asimov novel.
I would honestly go with “The Caves of Steel” as a “benchmark” Asimov experience, the first novel in the Robot series.
If you want to go for something a little bit outside of the Robot / Foundation series (and you’ve already read or reread “The Gods Themselves”), I would go for “The End of Eternity”.
You may actually be right, I haven’t really watched the show as I don’t have Apple TV. But it annoys me to no end they’d use the namez say it’s based on the books, and do something different rather than an adaptation.
I hate that too.
I didn’t know that the “The Man in the High Castle” (supposed to be based on a novel by Philip K. Dick) show was just about the setting and they came up with their own story. I was so pissed off after watching the first episode.
I was actually wondering why they even went with “The Man in the High Castle” since it’s a strange and superficially depressing novel (even by the standards of PKD). There are much better choices for a series or a movie based on PKD’s work.
That’s why I didn’t bother with the Foundation series (I am a big Asimov fan). I don’t mind a re-interpretation of a literary work, but it has to be creative and mind bending while conceptually (and philosophically?) engaging with the themes from the literary work.
Hey, I was a fan of Asimov’s genius when I was a kid, but that was some time ago, and I remember only The Gods Themselves. As I read it many times, that’s my favourite. Are there any others you’d recommend? I mean, of course I plan to enjoy them all. But perhaps there are some recommendations for a stranger to read this, and then that, and then something else too.
Funnily enough “The Gods Themselves” themselves is my favorite Asimov novel. It’s very memorable. Doesn’t feel like an Asimov novel.
I would honestly go with “The Caves of Steel” as a “benchmark” Asimov experience, the first novel in the Robot series.
If you want to go for something a little bit outside of the Robot / Foundation series (and you’ve already read or reread “The Gods Themselves”), I would go for “The End of Eternity”.
Thanks! Noted.