I've read Dune and Messiah before the new movies, loved them. I absolutely despise Children (book 3) for ruining the perfect ending of Messiah, ruining the worms, ruining the ending Paul got, reversing already reversed death of a character just to completely ruin him AND another character who kills him, it's a trainwreck with slime superman. I hate that book beyond reason as it clearly shows signs of "it was written because you hit the iron when it's still hot".
Now I have my eyes on the Foundation. The TV adaptation was promising but quickly dropped the ball after 2 episodes, anything that wasn't about the emperor(s) was borderline unwatchable and didn't bother after season 2, but I am curious about the books. I just don't want to run into another "well it was commercial success so I kept writing for the money" series that just doesn't know when to stop. And it has at least 7 books so.. yeah I am not reading that. But I'd like to know, what is the "core" Foundation experience? The original? First 2 books? First three as a trilogy?
And I wonder what other books you'd recommend that became a series where you'd say, it's great if you stop at X point.
by Waveshaper21
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I would recommend anyone stop reading Orson Scott Card’s Ender series after the first three prequel books and Enders Game. To me the story starts to loose cohesion.
A Good Girls Guide to Murder- stop at the first book and pretend it’s a standalone
Shatter Me series- stop at book 3 Ignite Me
Much like the Expense TV show, stop reading after Leviathan Wakes or Caliban’s War. Diminishing returns and barely a protomolecule plot