What I remember is how reading Asimov's debut short stories ("Christmas on Ganymede") completely destroyed his work for me...
It was impossible after being exposed to them in their worse form, to not notice his writing tics in all his further works; even the ones I previously loved (because the ideas were great, even if the writing was at best average).
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