Probably skip the sequels though. Certain aspects age very poorly.
One somewhat amusing aspect of the film (don't remember what's in the book), is that you have this apparently super-sophisticated AI and there's a plot point around designing a (very robotic) text to speech interface for it. Which is a bit funny because, in general, computer speech in both directions has I think been considered as relatively trivial relative to a lot of other things related to computer technology.
Let's just say that I've been told by women that they found certain aspects of the sequels really distasteful to the point that they couldn't appreciate them as a whole.
Yeah, ok. Thought that might be it. Guessing it's similar then to some of the later Foundation novels. I have a thick skin though, so will probably still read them.
Much worse than Asimov's later Foundation books as I remember them which were mostly just the sort of cardboard female characters you'd expect from the era.
One somewhat amusing aspect of the film (don't remember what's in the book), is that you have this apparently super-sophisticated AI and there's a plot point around designing a (very robotic) text to speech interface for it. Which is a bit funny because, in general, computer speech in both directions has I think been considered as relatively trivial relative to a lot of other things related to computer technology.