Foundation

As others have said, incredibly dry. Nothing about the characters or dialogue is interesting. The plot is essentially explained from a distance by characters talking very dryly. I did not find the conflict interesting in the slightest and it was not easy to suspend my disbelief.

The main sci-fi aspect being psyco-whatever its called, the idea that you can predict far distant events by knowing the present very well. I cannot accept this as a plot point because of my knowledge of chaos theory. There is a reason the weather is incredibly hard to predict further past ~10 days, even with thousands upon thousands of sensors and sophisticated simulations.

I can imagine the relevance this book once had, but I got no joy or stimulation from my attempt at reading it.