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This book was published in 1970 and here I am listening to it in 2014. I realize that my perspective is completely different now from those readers that picked up the first run of the book. I've probably read or watched things that were influenced directly by this novel. Some things that are now tropes or cliches were revolutionary over 40 years ago. But, I only have my own perspective and although I did enjoy this novel, I am only going to give it a 3/5.

This was a slow listen for me. Many audiobooks I've listened to lately I can't stop listening to. I find moments to thrust the ear buds back into my ears. For this one, I stopped midchapter quite a few times. The pacing was too slow for me. I guess I've been conditioned to enjoy fast paced entertainment, but it wasn't that things weren't happening. It was that I didn't really care about the things that were happening. And I didn't care about the people the things were happening to.

I had a problem with the way women and sex were portrayed. This is one thing from the 70's that didn't translate to modern times. Another thing was the pace of the writing and the amount of explanation. The science of the science-fiction was interesting, but so much of it was explained. I wanted to see the science in action instead of just facts. It didn't flow for me.

I did enjoy the aliens. They were unique and each had their own culturally based views. I was familiar with the Kzinti though because I'm a Star Trek nerd. Yes, I have watched Star Trek: The Animated Series (my dad had old tapes from when it showed on Nickelodean). I also spent way too much time on the Star Trek wiki, Memory Alpha, when I was younger. The Kzinti Empire almost even made it back into Enterprise, but this is all beside the point. The first few chapters I was trying to figure out if this story somehow took place in the Star Trek universe.

Overall, I am glad I listened to this book. It was an educational experience in sci-fi of the past. And I was entertained. This novel gets a 3/5 from me.


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Ringworld Larry Niven 8601404407505 Books Reviews

I have been in love the "Tales of Known Space" since I was a young girl. Niven actually built an entire world inside his stories, both large and small.

But after listening to the Audible version of this book, I could barely get through even the sample of the book because listening to the narrator was a lot like biting on aluminum foil, or sliding down Olympus Mons by your fingernails with a ground made of chalkboard. So I decided that I could forgo the spoken version in lieu of own imagination, as disappointing a choice this was.

However, I've never heard of this editing company before I saw this ebook, and, upon looking into it after being repeatedly insulted by such poor editorship, I looked online, on its "website," it honesty like it operates out of someone's basement.

The reason I removed a star from this book is because of the fact that this ebook has the worst editing I've ever seen in my life! As I looked at the photos of this Mickey Mouse operation, it shows two people at cheap desks, and it's hard not to think that that they might be relatives of Mr. Niven who who received a "gimme" because of their close family ties, as the site is so cheaply made that's it's easy to believe that these two -- a teenager and his "Mom" perhaps? -- because no professional company would ever release such printed drivel and expect to remain in operation in the world of print. I wonder why Tor was not the printing company...

The word "you" is the most battered, coming out as "yon," other words are either spelled incorrectly because of the normal location-based keyboard accidents, but for others, there simply is NO explanation for how any typist could have tapped most of these words into a line. And worst of all, some mistakes are SO incorrect that, unless you have a vocabulary that's extremely well versed in not just SciFi but in Known Space, you will likely end up not having the slightest idea what the writer is saying!

If you can find this book from any OTHER editing company, I suggest you do so!
A classic of the genre for good reason, and a terrific story. But these ebooks were clearly never proofed. Missing punctuation throughout, as well as what seem to be entire missing sentences (or possibly paragraphs or scenes--there's no way to tell). I'm reading it to my kids, and I repeatedly have to stop, scan what I just read, and go, "Uh... I think there's something missing again here."

This publisher is apparently a "literary agency" that seems to specialize in putting backlists back in circulation in ebook form. In this case, the author could have done a better job himself.

For tanj sake, Spectrum, hire a proofer. If you show this little class and respect to a major title from a major name, I can't imagine what you do to smaller ones.
This book was published in 1970 and here I am listening to it in 2014. I realize that my perspective is completely different now from those readers that picked up the first run of the book. I've probably read or watched things that were influenced directly by this novel. Some things that are now tropes or cliches were revolutionary over 40 years ago. But, I only have my own perspective and although I did enjoy this novel, I am only going to give it a 3/5.

This was a slow listen for me. Many audiobooks I've listened to lately I can't stop listening to. I find moments to thrust the ear buds back into my ears. For this one, I stopped midchapter quite a few times. The pacing was too slow for me. I guess I've been conditioned to enjoy fast paced entertainment, but it wasn't that things weren't happening. It was that I didn't really care about the things that were happening. And I didn't care about the people the things were happening to.

I had a problem with the way women and sex were portrayed. This is one thing from the 70's that didn't translate to modern times. Another thing was the pace of the writing and the amount of explanation. The science of the science-fiction was interesting, but so much of it was explained. I wanted to see the science in action instead of just facts. It didn't flow for me.

I did enjoy the aliens. They were unique and each had their own culturally based views. I was familiar with the Kzinti though because I'm a Star Trek nerd. Yes, I have watched Star Trek The Animated Series (my dad had old tapes from when it showed on Nickelodean). I also spent way too much time on the Star Trek wiki, Memory Alpha, when I was younger. The Kzinti Empire almost even made it back into Enterprise, but this is all beside the point. The first few chapters I was trying to figure out if this story somehow took place in the Star Trek universe.

Overall, I am glad I listened to this book. It was an educational experience in sci-fi of the past. And I was entertained. This novel gets a 3/5 from me.