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Can't say I was a huge fan of this book. In general it seems that my sensibilities to not meld well with a lot of 1970's scifi. Unline some other books that I have read like Stranger in a Strange Land, I didn't really have any problems with the ideas here. I felt the book was just sort of boring. The first two-thirds of it was very uneventful and seemed rather pedantic. When we finally did make our way to the Ringworld, the reader really didn't get to learn all that much about it. We experienced
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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.
Again, another science fiction story with a great deal of chauvinism. Female characters are only here to serve at the pleasure of the male characters. Imagine, a race so far advanced from ours that they ...more
Again, another science fiction story with a great deal of chauvinism. Female characters are only here to serve at the pleasure of the male characters. Imagine, a race so far advanced from ours that they ...more
There are some fantastic ideas here, but I really lean toward character-driven stories, and Niven seems to be a concept guy who uses flat characters solely to represent ideas. I can see why it's a classic, but it's not my cup of tea.
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At first, I was disappointed. I read the beginning of it back in the 80s. Remember it being more hard-science-fictiony. But now it seems that it's a bit of a snide lark. But, now that I'm done with it, I'm actually pleased that I finished it. Might not have had a thrilling plot or complex characters. But it was a definitive Big Dumb Object story and I enjoyed the ride.
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I tried to listen to this in audiobook but the sexism was just too hard to get past. Women were good for one thing: sex and giggles. UGH. Maybe I'll read it in text so I can skim past the dated sexism and get to the good science story.
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