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Title: Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven ISBN: 0-345-41296-6 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 30 March, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.32 (88 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Well... it is a fair follow up story to ringworld.
Comment: I like Louis Wu. He is nearly my favorite Larry Niven character. So when this book came out years past I ran down to the book store and bought a copy.
The book is sort of about Louis Wu and the old gang of the two previous Ringworld series. Some of the writing about Louis is quite good. (Spoiler Warning) Louis has a terminal disease from being off booster spice. His cure is quite innovative when looking at things on a microscophic level. My hat is off to Larry for thinking of such an good solution to an illness.
I didn't care for the new characters. They tend to come into the main thrust of the novel and I just wanted to learn more about the Hindmost and Chmee. Chmee is just busy running his life and he treats everything as an afterthought. Perhaps I would be this way if I lived on a stable Ringworld with a bunch of wives and a Kingdom to defend.
But, to Larry Niven fans, this is still classic Niven. The last few chapters makes up for some of the dull parts. Remember, Pak do not like automation. Since the death of Teela Brown there has not been a Pak on Ringworld. Thus we have the true crux of Ringworld's problem: it does not have a Pak running the structure. A paranoid Puppeteer is not a replacement for a Pak.
You'll have to read this novel before "Ringworld's Children" comes out for the Summer.
Rating: 1
Summary: Stop Reading Before its Too Late
Comment: The 'professional' reviews for this book are much too kind.
Compared to Ringworld and Ringworld Engineers, Throne is a major disappointment through and through. I just kept slogging along through the unreadable narrative, uninteresting characters with unpronounceable names whizzing by my head, looking forward to every sensible moment with Louis and the Hindmost. I only finished reading it because the Protectors storyline finally started to get my interest in the end.
I should have stopped reading at page 100.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not a patch on the first two....
Comment: The first two ringworld novels were great, and I had read pretty much all of LN's work up to 10 years ago. I finished this book today and most of it made no sense. I assumed that this was due to the length of time it is since I read the first two Ringworld titles, but the other comments here suggest that I just wasted my time.
No plot, the book rambles along and the ending leaves you thinking 'so what'. Not much is revealed about the Ringworld apart from serial 'rishing'. The first few hundred pages is irrelevant to the rest of the book.
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Title: Ringworld by Larry Niven ISBN: 0345333926 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 September, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Protector by Larry Niven ISBN: 0345353129 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Three Books of Known Space by Larry Niven ISBN: 0345404483 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 03 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Crashlander by Larry Niven ISBN: 0345381688 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 02 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle ISBN: 0671741926 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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