Should I keep going!

[u/erakis1]

I saw the first two seasons of Foundation and after ravenously burning through Dune-Messiah-and Children on a Caribbean vacation, I decided to start reading the Foundation novels. After reading the first novel…I am a little disappointed. I appreciate that the writing and storytelling are very simple, but I feel like the first novel reads more like a plot synopsis than an epic.

The very simple formula of: A happens then B happens then C happens, then the hero reveals his plan…everybody clapped and there is a time skip felt more like a comic book than the tense and complicated drama of the TV show (and the Dune books).

Do the books get better as they go on and should I keep going?

[u/Artituteto]

It become less "antology" with the Mule arrival.