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This rarely happens to me: I just could not finish this book. I found it unbearable and about half-way through I really did not care about how these stories would continue. In my opinion, it is incredibly poorly written and frankly, I found these robot stories dull and boring content-wise as well. I read that this is supposed to be one of the classics of sci-fi. I don't have a lot of experience with that genre but if this book is supposed to be one of the best, I doubt the genre is for me.
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I started listening to the audio version of this, but I just couldn't get into it. Not really sure what I didn't like about it, just was not keeping my interest. Maybe I'll try it again at another time.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11.0
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