It's such a shame the Starship Troopers movie came out when it did, because I saw that and dismissed the book for way too long. Finally, I picked up a copy around ten years ago and damn if the book isn't a whole different animal.
In other words, this isn't my first reading.
This was the most ambivalent the Foundation series ever made me. Second Foundation is the third book in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, and it was the last one for nearly thirty years. This book was serialized in 1948 and 1949, and novelized in 1953. The next book didn't come until 1982. So this was the conclusion of Asimov's vision until publishers begged him for more.
This book is a pretty serious classic of Japanese space opera. Written by Yoshiki Tanaka in 1982 (I think), it spawned a series of 10 main books and 5 volumes of side stories. It was adapted into anime twice, and manga, and video games. But it didn't really make it over to the U.S. in any official capacity until around 2016.
This one was a lot of fun! I borrowed a P.G. Wodehouse book from a colleague of mine ten or so years ago and really enjoyed it, but I never went back to the author... until this week! A friend of mine introduced me to the "Jeeves and Wooster" TV show as well as "Blandings," and I thought, why not read a little Wodehouse and see what I think?
Well, I picked up a big Wodehouse collection on Amazon, something like 4000 pages, and it turns out it only contains one of the like 15 Jeeves books and a collection of Jeeves short stories. Something about the licensing of Wodehouse's work puts his stuff all over the place.
Oh, well.
The book I read for this review is Right Ho, Jeeves, which is apparently the second Jeeves novel. This one was released in 1934, which is the same year the first Nero Wolfe book was published. Odd coincidence, but auspicious.
