Ringworld throne pdf

Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! The story lines are well thought out. If you liked the first two, you'll like this one. Best if you've read Protector. If you had you would have smelled "The Pac" in the story line for quite a long time. Indeed, the first book, RingWorld may be the best. The story line hangs at the end, in this book, anticipating the next book in the sequence. The next book Ringworld Children is perhaps a bit thinner, as the story begins to weaken and tire.

Some might say "jumping the shark", but hey, most Sci-fi is essentially an escapist distraction. Certainly it is that. Jul 03, Graham Crawford rated it did not like it. Everyone says this book is rubbish, and it really is. The last third is stupidly complicated - a pea and shell trick with teleporters that goes on for so long the author looses the peas and the plot. The first half is really a short story with side characters that has been stretched out to fill a novel.

I could almost cope with a soft porn alien vampire novella True Blood in space! Except it's the same sex over and over again. And it's relentlessly male heterosexual wish fulfillment - Everyone says this book is rubbish, and it really is. And it's relentlessly male heterosexual wish fulfillment - lightly bearded women and furries are as transgressive as we get. All that angst over a monogamous couple enjoying group sex. Seriously - Did Larry Niven bug out at a s sex party and decide to try to write a book about it.

View all 3 comments. This was a disappointment. I mean, Niven knows how to get you to turn the page, but the first part of the story is about characters I'm not really attached to, and the second part was something of a rushed train wreck.

It's the opposite of over-written, it was under-written This was a disappointment. It's the opposite of over-written, it was under-written Sep 20, Jacob rated it it was ok.

The entire first half the book is completely unnecessary and the whole book is incredibly hard to follow a problem I had all previous books too. Niven doesn't have a great talent for clearly describing environments his characters are in. I found myself reading and re-reading and re-re-reading things over and over again.

He seems to contradict himself in his imagery often and that causes my imagination to come to an aggravating halt. The first half of the book barely involves the main characters The entire first half the book is completely unnecessary and the whole book is incredibly hard to follow a problem I had all previous books too.

The first half of the book barely involves the main characters for the previous book. It introduces about 15 new characters that have long forgettable names and you get about 3 chapters to learn about them all. The book does come with a glossary in the back of the book with all the new characters and their species. This glossary is entirely necessary if you want to have any iota of what's going on throughout this half of the book.

In fact, I started to keep a separate bookmark back there so I could flip to it quicker. The first half comes to a boring and lame conclusion and then you finally get to the real interesting story You learn a lot about the protectors in this book which to me, is very exciting.

You barely got to know anything about them in the last book which disappointed me greatly. Despite the protectors having enormous brains, Louis still outsmarts them almost every time. There's a lot of fights between protectors but they are described so badly that it's not until the fight is over and several paragraphs later do I know the outcome. I wish R. Salvatore would write a Ringworld book. He's amazing at writing fighting scenes. Not a great review but I don' feel like writing more.

Oct 21, Benjamin Duffy rated it liked it Shelves: fantasy-sci-fi. I believe it was Isaac Asimov who said that in true science fiction, the setting is the real protagonist. In this third Ringworld book, Niven is finally arriving at that stage; there's frustratingly little of Louis Wu undoubtedly Niven's most interesting and compelling character in the first half of this book, so it was slow going for me until the Ringworld itself roped me in.

By that, I mean that eventually I kept pushing forward, not because I cared what happened to the people, but more beca I believe it was Isaac Asimov who said that in true science fiction, the setting is the real protagonist. By that, I mean that eventually I kept pushing forward, not because I cared what happened to the people, but more because I was intrigued by what they would find next, and by the ultimate fate of the world.

Much the same as the last two of the original six Dune novels in that way. Not nearly as warm, funny, or emotionally involving as the first Ringworld book, but more compelling than The Ringworld Engineers.

Again, Niven's intelligence and imagination leave little to be criticized, and this series is definitely worthwhile reading for the fan of speculative fiction. Jan 02, Marin rated it did not like it. Though a big fan of Niven's works, I have never been a big fan of the Ringworld series. The setup is so enormous, so many possible stories arise, that it feels the author is unsuccessfully trying to tell them all.

The Ringworld Throne is the most painful proof of that so far. Several different plots run along completely unrelated to each other, right until the last couple of chapters. Not only are these plots very boring as they stand all alone, but they also try to wear down the poor reader Though a big fan of Niven's works, I have never been a big fan of the Ringworld series.

Not only are these plots very boring as they stand all alone, but they also try to wear down the poor reader who's trying to Sherlock them all together. Nobody likes a figuring out a nice mystery more than me, but a mystery requires clues and a fighting chance for the reader to piece them all together.

This book gives no such thing. What it does instead, it gives us a couple of genius characters that piece together a story out of thin air. There is simply no way they could figure all that out - simply because the possible solutions are nearly endless.

Sticking to 1 or 2 interlocked plots and giving more space to character development would make it a much more pleasant reading experience. Another problem that was already surfacing in The Ringworld Engineers is that author keeps trying to patch up this unrealistic world. Somebody notes that Ringworld would be unstable in real world - bam!

I guess the goal was to make "Known Space" a viable future as opposed to "the galaxy far far away" , but it just starts looking more and more like a house of cards. And while I could even get over the patchy nature of the Ringworld, there's the famous rishathra to give the final blow no pun intended. While it might have been an interesting if not very convincing possible side-effect of such a world, it has become a central plot theme for this book.

Which makes it feel like it was written by a horny teenager. Larry , please next time just pretend you never wrote about it in the first place - or start fresh on the other side of the Ringworld where locals still haven't heard about it.

Should I even give Ringworld's Children a try? Jul 17, D rated it liked it. Warning: the Ringworld series is addictive. The quality, however, decreases with progress. Still, the story is interesting enough to want to read the sequel. Jan 31, Jona Cannon rated it it was ok. Luis Wu is self-marooned on ringworld, and seems to be thought of as a wizard or a god depending on how primitive the education of the species you talk to. Can a god find redemption for his sins?

I'd heard from other fans that this was the least favorite of this series, and I agree. It was hard to follow, and not a great story. It kinda felt to me like Niven just wanted to bang out another b Luis Wu is self-marooned on ringworld, and seems to be thought of as a wizard or a god depending on how primitive the education of the species you talk to.

It kinda felt to me like Niven just wanted to bang out another book, with no passion for the thread of the story. But there is one more book to go, so hopefully this is the low point. Such an old story but still good. I don't think that I would recommend it for everyone because of this reason, new SiFi uses much more advance science with authors trying to explain its working which is missing in Ringworld but if you disregard it you can enjoy the series.

Jul 27, Angie Shoemaker rated it it was ok. I started this book thinking I was going to like it more than its predecessors. It had more action, more sarcastic dialogue. But in the end, I was just relieved to be done. Nov 19, Randy rated it it was ok.

Less and less interesting. Much more sex in this one than the previous ones that had their fair share. I think I prefer sticking with Louis. Otherwise, enjoyed the story. It ended with a little bit of a cliffhanger, but since it is a series, that is forgivable. Feb 25, S James Bysouth rated it liked it Shelves: science-fiction.

Ringworld Thr—sigh—rone. In Ringworld Throne we are kept guessing up until the last chapter. It is an extremely confusing plot to follow.

Larry replaces what would otherwise be telling reveals with. He thinks it is clever and suspenseful. It is actually annoying. And confusing.

The first half of the book deals with a war against seemin 3 Stars, just. The first half of the book deals with a war against seemingly unstoppable hominids. It is laborious and complicated. It feels out of place in a science fiction novel and is incongruous with the rest of the Ringworld series. Every chapter following the hominids is boring, whereas every chapter with Louis we get a glimmer of hope the story is about to get better, only return to the Hominids with an exasperated sigh.

The second half is about Louis being subjected and trying to outsmart a being a million times more intelligent than himself. These two stories, obliquely, meet up at the end.

It is not satisfying. The genius of the original Ringworld was watching Louis solve problems with his brand of wisdom. Instead, this cleverness was kept secret. Not a good move. In the final chapters, at the climax, Louis Wu is not involved in the action. Niven has had a vision. One in which I am not privy to. Due to his lack of narration, it is difficult to understand what exactly I am supposed to be seeing and found myself wondering what Niven had envisioned, and if his vision was anything like what I got.

I think not. It is a fast-paced, hectic, intriguing style. But, the subject-matter of this book does not fit with it. Narration is good, Larry. With all its faults, it is still a great read. Protectors are incredible. I would like to read more about protectors. Instead, it barely eclipsed 3. Jun 15, Niffe rated it did not like it. This is the first book in a long time that I started reading and never finished.

While the first two ringworld books were annoying in their obsession with aliens having sex with each other, this installment in the series was unreadable for the same reason. I am even more bewildered by the over-abundance of sex in this book than in the previous books, as in the previous books it seemed as though the author might have some sort of subtle point that I was missing, while in the case of this book the Rishathra was such a central concept that it seems as though any point should have been explicit.

If you have read this book and can explain to me what the point was, please do so! I might return to this book one day, for completeness, but it was bad enough to get me out of the habit of reading fiction for months, so I am not in any hurry to give it another go. Jan 08, Tomislav rated it it was ok Shelves: science-fiction. This is the sequel to Larry Niven's award-winning Ringworld, and his pretty-good Ringworld Engineers.

I re-read those recently, and am now reading the next sequels for the first time. Throne 3 is a big disappointment. The contribution of this book to the overall series could have been made in two short chapters - one about Valavirgillan's war with the Vampires, and one about Louis Wu and Hindmost and Acolyte's war with all the rival Protectors.

But the two stories as stretched out in this boo This is the sequel to Larry Niven's award-winning Ringworld, and his pretty-good Ringworld Engineers. But the two stories as stretched out in this book, are incredibly poorly written and uninteresting.

Numerous characters of numerous hominid species with mind-numbingly forgetable names. An obsession with repetitive interspecies sex mentions, as in "then they had sex again". Motivations of principal characters not disclosed. What a mess. But as I mentioned, it does advance the overall series a little, and probably cannot be skipped.

May 14, Eric Stodolnik rated it really liked it Shelves: reading-list. I'm sad to say that I was a bit disappointed with this installment of the Ringworld series. In fact, I was a bit on the fence as to wether I was going to give this a 3 Star or a 4 Star rating.

I decided on 4 Stars, I think because I really enjoyed the ending, or more specifically most of the "Part 2" section, and it picking up and my enjoying it a lot more at the end meant my enjoyment was more fresh in my memory than my disappointment.

So I settled on 4 Stars, but if you could do half-stars on I'm sad to say that I was a bit disappointed with this installment of the Ringworld series. So I settled on 4 Stars, but if you could do half-stars on this site, I would've ended up giving it a 3. So when the heaping bulk of the first part of the book was about a band of Ringworld natives and their odd-stacked-against war with the Vampires, I was definitely let down. It was cool and exciting at times, particularly the section where they made their way onto the City Builders' floating factory But it wasn't the Ringworld I came to know and love, and at times it was downright boring.

I found myself extremely eager to get the war over and done with so I could get back to Louis Wu and Hindmost's part in the story. In fact, I ended up putting the book down somewhere around page and not picking it back up again for over a month And it is extremely rare that I'll put down a book for a break. But when the Vampire War was finally done with, it got back to the Ringworld storytelling that I expected, with their ups and downs and epic battles with Pak Protectors.

So the second part of the novel pretty much redeemed it for me. One more thing to note is that there sure was an uncomfortable amount of "Rishing" in this book, lol I get it, it makes sense, what with the role that the Vampires played on the story And I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination in fact, I'd say that I'm extremely desensitized and consider myself to have a bit of a sick sense of humor so it's not like all that Rishartha actually offended me in any way like it would some Christian moms who might find out what was actually in the sci-fi novel their kid is reading, lol But JEEZ!

So much Rishing!!! It kind of makes me guess that Larry Niven might have been a bit sexually frustrated during the writing of this novel and took it out on all the lucky native species of Ringworld. Your Comment:. Home Downloads Free Downloads Ringworld pdf. Read Online Download. Great book, Ringworld pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven. Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven. Destroyer of Worlds by Larry Niven.