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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
Tiene ideas muy interesante como los humanos de la suerte y el resto de especies alienígenas pero fuera de eso es un libro que no recomiendo para nada.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content
Minor: Rape
I chose to read Ringworld because of it's Nebula/Hugo winning status.
It has some interesting ideas but the plot meanders and the characters are dry. I can understand that the aliens might be written in such a way as to be inscrutable but the humans came off as not much different from the aliens - not real people.
The writing style was somewhat dreamy and indirect, and reminded me of the golden age sci-fi that I'm sure Niven was heavily influenced by.
This is not a particularly long book but I found it very slow going.
It has some interesting ideas but the plot meanders and the characters are dry. I can understand that the aliens might be written in such a way as to be inscrutable but the humans came off as not much different from the aliens - not real people.
The writing style was somewhat dreamy and indirect, and reminded me of the golden age sci-fi that I'm sure Niven was heavily influenced by.
This is not a particularly long book but I found it very slow going.
The worldbuilding is fantastic, and the concept was obviously seminal to a host of later scifi authors, artists, and game designers. However, Louis as a character is bland and unlikable, and the author's treatment of women is embarrassing. Yes, one could argue it was a product of the times, but this novel was published well into second wave feminism and Niven should've treated Teela and Halrloprillalar with the same attempt at depth and realness that he tried to put on Louis (tried and attempt being key words here. Maybe the whole ringworld, despite being millions of miles across but only four feet deep in terms of usable soil is a metaphor for the characters as well. Who knows?)
I'm not sorry I read it, it's as important to scifi and fantasy as Berserk, Lord of the Rings, or Dune is, but the age of it is showing, and in this delicate polarized time we live in, further denigrations grate just a little harder for middle-life me than I think they would have for high-school me. High-school me would've eaten this book up and loved it. And subsequently added more onto that pile of sexist trauma, but I'm going off on a tangent.
Five stars for world building, for aliens, for space tech, etc. Only one star for characters of Louis, Teela, and Prill. Averaged it out.
I'm not sorry I read it, it's as important to scifi and fantasy as Berserk, Lord of the Rings, or Dune is, but the age of it is showing, and in this delicate polarized time we live in, further denigrations grate just a little harder for middle-life me than I think they would have for high-school me. High-school me would've eaten this book up and loved it. And subsequently added more onto that pile of sexist trauma, but I'm going off on a tangent.
Five stars for world building, for aliens, for space tech, etc. Only one star for characters of Louis, Teela, and Prill. Averaged it out.
I liked everything except the 200-year-old male protagonist meeting a hot 20-year-old and her immediately falling in love with him. According to the "half-your-age-plus-seven" rule he should not have been romantically involved with anyone under 107. But I guess things are different in the 1970 version of the future.
This was back when Sci-fi focused more on actual Sci then Fi. Many times I found my eyes glazed over with blitzkreig explanations of the physics behind space travel and/or orbital speeds. Those times were really what kept it from being a book that I could get lost in.
The story center around an alien from a race called puppeteers; which three legs and two heads; heads that doubled as hands. Probably the most creative creature I've come across. There was also the Kzin, basically a 8-foot tall alien cat. Rounding out the group were two humans; one a two-hundred year old man and the other a twenty-something girl who was litterally lucky.
The four of them go off to explore, you guessed it Ringworld. This world was built by an unknown race. It was millions of miles in diameter and was a ring around a sun. I'd recommend it only if you're a hard core Sci-Fi fan.
The story center around an alien from a race called puppeteers; which three legs and two heads; heads that doubled as hands. Probably the most creative creature I've come across. There was also the Kzin, basically a 8-foot tall alien cat. Rounding out the group were two humans; one a two-hundred year old man and the other a twenty-something girl who was litterally lucky.
The four of them go off to explore, you guessed it Ringworld. This world was built by an unknown race. It was millions of miles in diameter and was a ring around a sun. I'd recommend it only if you're a hard core Sci-Fi fan.
Would love to love any of the classic sci-fis from this era if only they didn’t objectify women in the most sexist way. Literally the whole rest of the book didn’t suck, but one of the main characters was only created to suck????? No, my guy, just no.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Great sci-fi. Can't wait to read the rest of the books in this series, I hope they maintain the creative vision of this one.
Fighting bigotry and autism, Niven writes at least an interesting book.