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8341027 No.8341027 [Reply] [Original]

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

>> No.8341033

what are your favorites from niven?

>> No.8341085

>>8341033
Mote in God's Eye its the best I've read from him. Ringworld in comparison is campy.

>> No.8341099

>>8341027

I thought Hogfather was interesting, it made some good points

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>>8341027
>Ringworld not good
Are you a retard?

>> No.8341129

Ringworld is absolutely campy, I agree

>cardboard characters
>no discernible plot

Niven clearly got stuck in worldbuilding and came up with a bunch of interesting locations, the plot progresses only so that Niven can describe those locations, and then it ends.

>> No.8341138

>>8341119
>saving a thumbnail
Are you a retard?

>> No.8341165

>>8341129
and he didn't even expand that well on it in the sequels. science fiction was naive in those days. somehow ringpulp won both the Hugo and the Nebula.

>> No.8341185

It was the idea of a ringworld not the novel itself that was praise worthy.

>> No.8341204

>>8341099
>Hogfather
That's Cubeworld you goober

>> No.8342093

>>8341027
I'm glad to hear niven has better stuff. That shit was retarded in every aspect (retarded physics, retarded aliens, retarded characters plot and writing, ultra retarded sex scenes). I honestly enjoyed reading it, though, mostly because of that.

>>8341099
rectangle world was the shit though.