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Brave New WorldAldous Huxley
Not a fan

I didn't have the best of times with Brave New World. Again, I actually enjoyed the show. Not as much as Foundation on Foundation is like on a level of its own.

Dark MatterBlake Crouch
Loved it

Dark matter. The OG. Don't know if I just forgot. But obviously Reddit, loved it. Was a gateway drug for speculative fiction, I feel, for me.

FoundationIsaac Asimov
Mixed

I think it lost me towards the end. I was really enjoying it for the first like half genuinely. But at that point, I was still hoping for more relationships, let's say, or more character.

GodsgraveJay Kristoff
Neutral

Okay, I read it. I read it. I don't I didn't read the third one, but I read the second one. I have a very vivid memory of listening to it on audio obviously through my like earphones, but still in a public place and it was a very steamy scene there.

I actually really enjoyed the writing of it. Surprisingly, I really thought it was going to be way too quirky, way too lyrical, way too whimsical for me. It's such a beautifully crafted, very accessible, sure, probably middle-rade, but can be read by any ages.

InvictusUnknown
Loved it

I don't actually know if I still have it. I might not have it, but I have read it. You know what? That does still stand. Time travel is what does get me excited. Very excited.

I finished the book. This actually did get significantly better. The next chapter that I started reading after the last update, the very end, I will say, probably was like the strongest. I just had an overall lack of feeling of anything throughout this.

I have read it. I was really bamboozled. It was very minimal, very like a dash of sprinkle of perhaps magical realism. I didn't I didn't really enjoy it. It was okay.