[fishnchips]

Poor writing was my first and foremost gripe: obvious character motives and an almost total lack of surprising plot twists. To be fair, I also re-read The Star Diaries which I first read (and loved!) in my early teens and I had the same issues with the author's workshop. That being said I think Asimov's prose hasn't aged very well in the light of actual technological progress (information storage and retrieval) and you just keep smiling while reading about Encyclopedia Galactica.