/lit/ - Literature

>laugh
>girlfriend gets upset
>do it another 3 times
>girlfriend leaves me for a weirdo and then runs around on a giant ring w him forever

I finished Ringworld just a couple weeks ago. I enjoyed some of the themes behind it but found the story quite lacking.

Has anyone read the sequels? Are they worth investing time into?

>>9149433

If you're Gen X, William Gibson's "Neuromancer".
>Millenials (understandably) don't into cyberpunk

Larry Niven's first Ringworld book is good, unless you're female in which case you may find his misogyny offputting.

Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series is good if you like British humor: Monty Python in space.

Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light" is an interesting look at a possible future where tech underpins a religious ruling caste. His Amber series is in a similar vein although it substitutes the scifi tech for a fantasy setting of chaos versus order. Zelazny does a good job writing a devil-may-care protagonist.

>>8476291

Am I the only one who found Halo to be a better story and setting than "Ringworld"?

Why has this novel's reputation lasted so long? Niven is good, but this was a horribly bad read.