I read the Foundation Series of novels starting back in the 50's when I was in elementary school along with Heinlein's juveniles and Arthur C Clarke's early novels. Always among my favorites.
I worry. I have been disappointed more often than not when truly epic stories are made into movies <sigh> But I can always hope <g>
I confess, I have never read the Foundation books.
I used to like Asimov's short stories when I was a kid. But as an adult, every Asimov novel I've read has been, well, kind of boring. He has interesting ideas, but his stories are animated by puppets with vaguely human motivations.
Keep in mind that many of his most famous books were written in the 50s & 60s. The world was a =VERY= different place then <g>
Yes, Heinlein and Asimov's Robot and Foundation stories were my intro to Science Fiction. They led me to all of the other great authors I might not have otherwise been exposed to. If you do read the two Foundation series, Amadan, read all of the Robot stories first.
I did read some of the robot stories way back when.
Heinlein and Asimov were my introductions to science fiction also. I am still a Heinlein fan (though he was such an uneven writer - some of his books were classics, and some were just crap).
The Foundation series is the first set of books that I read for "pleasure". We all had books that we had to read in school, but the Foundation series hooked me on SciFi.
's funny how things work. I was not a big fan of reading all though middle school and much of high school. Then one of my classes put 'War of the worlds' on the reading list for the semester. By the time I finished my undergrad in collage (about 6 yrears in all) I had purchased and read over 5,000 F & SF books <g>