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Old 02-17-2020, 07:08 AM   #98
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Originally Posted by rkomar View Post
I have no problem with Asimov's ideas, it's his execution of the stories that I'm more critical of as I've aged. I find his dialog to be wooden and unnatural. When I was young, I didn't care about stuff like that, and there were plenty of golden age writers who I loved to read. As I've gotten older, literary problems have become annoying for me, and I can't enjoy the books as I used to. Ideas are no longer enough for me. I'm speaking as someone who adored Asimov and bought every book of his I could find. For me, it's his non-fiction books that I enjoy the most now.
I could never get into Asimov's characters either. I don't know how many times I started Asimov's stories only to put them down after a while.
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