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Getting this year’s one-star review out of the way early

Ringworld by Larry Niven

February 7, 2022 by Bothari43 8 Comments

I admit, I went into this expecting to dislike it. When my library sci-fi book club picked Larry Niven, all I knew about him was that my dad (fellow Cannonballer sabian30) and his entire science fiction club hated him. Niven was the guest writer at a sci-fi convention they helped organize, and apparently dude is a dillhole. So hooray for validation! I did not enjoy this one at all. Unlikeable characters, an incomprehensible setting (the more he explained what the Ringworld was, the less I […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: a series I'll never finish, futuristic misogyny, larry niven, ringworld

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: a series I'll never finish, futuristic misogyny, larry niven, ringworld ·
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The sight of the puppeteer had jarred loose a whole atticful of duty memories.

Ringworld by Larry Niven

November 19, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Man this is both a fun book, and one that gets a little too “in the weeds” later on. We start on Earth something like maybe a 1000 years into the future, with a very young feeling 200 year old man, Louie Wu, being approached by an alien (species known, individual not known) asking him if he’d like to go on a kind of adventure. He says yes because he’s bored on Earth, and in the last few nights on Earth he throws a big […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: larry niven, ringworld

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:640 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: larry niven, ringworld ·
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