reading (Caves of Steel)
Feb. 11th, 2007 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorI started Isaac's first robot novel yesterday and finished it in a marathon reading session today.
I have a real weakness for science fiction mysteries. I've never gotten into the mystery genre, mainly because I don't know who's good and who isn't, but I love it when I run across a mystery in my science fiction travels.
This is a true classic science fiction novel. Asimov sucks you in like a veteran angler bringing in a fish. You sit down for a casual read and the next thing you know you're in the net. The fiction part of the science remains amazingly undated and the psychological parts are spot on. The message about prejudice is a bit heavy handed in parts, but I cheer his courage in writing it when he did. Asimov's complete lack of off colour expletives reads a bit old fashion and there are some minor details that date the origin of the story, but they are minor and almost fun to look for.
I'm not good at beating the detective in mysteries. In this one I picked up on the important bits, but couldn't make them fit together. I had my suspect, almost from the start, and my motive, but I couldn't put together the opportunity.
I quite enjoyed the book, but you could probably guess that by the fact I read the novel in two sittings.
12. Isaac Asimov "The Caves of Steel"
I have a real weakness for science fiction mysteries. I've never gotten into the mystery genre, mainly because I don't know who's good and who isn't, but I love it when I run across a mystery in my science fiction travels.
This is a true classic science fiction novel. Asimov sucks you in like a veteran angler bringing in a fish. You sit down for a casual read and the next thing you know you're in the net. The fiction part of the science remains amazingly undated and the psychological parts are spot on. The message about prejudice is a bit heavy handed in parts, but I cheer his courage in writing it when he did. Asimov's complete lack of off colour expletives reads a bit old fashion and there are some minor details that date the origin of the story, but they are minor and almost fun to look for.
I'm not good at beating the detective in mysteries. In this one I picked up on the important bits, but couldn't make them fit together. I had my suspect, almost from the start, and my motive, but I couldn't put together the opportunity.
I quite enjoyed the book, but you could probably guess that by the fact I read the novel in two sittings.
12. Isaac Asimov "The Caves of Steel"
