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    <body><![CDATA[A very interesting concept....BUT, I have to get on my soapbox for a minute.  After reading a few of his books, I have to say that Larry Niven's attitude towards women, what they are like and what they are capable of, is sadly lacking.  Though his male characters seem to be pretty well fleshed out (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11847056">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I recently reread this and it's still delightful after all these years. Niven is so much fun because of his fascinating ideas, and the playfulness with which he approaches them. The ringworld is a beautiful work of art, technology, and imagination. Ditto time stasis fields, mirrored focusing sunflow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2888894">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I’d wanted to read this because I’m a fan of the Halo video games, and I’d heard that it was a big influence on those.  I gotta say that I’d have liked it more if the Master Chief would have shown up and started chucking some plasma grenades around.<br/><br/>Set in 2855, human Louis Wu is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78842678">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was silly.  the ringworld was a cool idea, and the interplay between the species was intriguing, but there were a lot of strikes against this book.<br/><br/>* anthropomorphic cat people that are fierce proud warriors; i imagine the furry contingent had a field day with this one<br/>* no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24977946">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is good when it comes to the science of science fiction. <br/><br/>The Ringworld is interesting and well described, but the book really falls short in explaining the how and why questions that are constantly coming up. <br/><br/>The characters are shallow and pretty boring in general a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10978727">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After re-reading Niven's most famous novel, one that I truly adored as a kid, I'm forced to drop one (one and a half, if I could) from my initial rating.<br/><br/>I still love SF books about Big Dumb Objects. There are some great stories about BDOs out there. <em>Ringworld</em> is still a good STORY with l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2593189">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What's the big deal about this book?  I've heard people rave about this book and I thought it was &quot;meh?&quot;.  Okay, they have a character called a Puppeteer, and I'm Pro-Puppet, but it let me down.  I think it took unnecessary short cuts and made some pretty big leaps of faith and logic, almo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20827800">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly, I picked this book up because I had heard <em>Halo</em> had been based off of it. Well, now I knew that isn't true. The only thing the video game took from this game was the location being set on a ring planet. The book was very enjoyable, and was an easy science fiction adventure. The story moved ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61624412">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First half of this book was quite good, but the second half was not.  Once arriving at the Ringworld, it's like the characters ran out of story... 2nd half was just trudging across the Ringworld, yes occassionally getting in a tight spot or seeing something interesting, but mostly to no great end.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60286261">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You can skip this book. You won't miss anything. Even if you like science fiction feel free to pass on this. Instead you can play Halo and you'll encounter a storyline that makes better use of the Ringworld concept. Two stars are for the ideas within Ringworld and the writing wasn't total garbage. T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80507522">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In 1970, when this book was published, the Ringworld was one of the greatest feats of imagination in the history of science fiction... and almost 40 years later it remains so.  A mass the size of Jupiter, transformed into a ring with a diameter of 180 million miles, a width of a million miles, and s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63563207">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this off my &quot;inherited&quot; shelf, mistakenly thinking it was the book Aaron had always encouraged me to read, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1654.Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a>'s <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34497.The_Color_of_Magic_Discworld_Book_1_" title="The Color of Magic (Discworld, Book 1) by Terry Pratchett">Discworld</a> series.  While not even close in nature, it was still a brief, entertaining read, but far less interesting than it sounded.<br/><br/>The story i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45467054">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The day I finished Ringworld was the day I realized that I have a problem. <br/><br/>When I started on my goal to read all of the best Science Fiction books of all time I wondered when I would hit the &quot;Dork Line&quot; Where things just got too wierd and I was no longer enjoying the experience...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74450392">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt that this book started out very promising, but about halfway through, it just lost momentum.  I realize that there are going to be necessary slow parts even in the best of novels, but I felt like nothing interesting happened after the first 100 pages.  Even when they stumble upon one of the m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41271598">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Canonical Niven. Intriguing ideas, loosely woven together into a pretty good, but not great, story. Well worth reading, especially if you like SF. This may be Niven's most important novel, IMHO.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Six parts ripping (if occasionally cringingly dated) adventure yarn, four parts eye-glazing made-up science: all things considered, the perfect book to read on a multiple-stop plane trip.  I prefer the original binding, though, with the very confusing illustration of the Ring, featuring various baff...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55832606">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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