I finished Ringworld
I liked it.
I think I liked Speaker-to-Animals best. I like the fact how his species relay so much on their instincts and how he Always holds himself back to analyse the bigger picture . I didn't like Louis. Louis whould have accepted the mission no matter what because he was bored giving him that new space ship makes him look more amiable. He really needed someone like Nessus bi polar (brave and cowardly) In fact I suspect him to be a sociopath. It would explain his interactions. Let's take this inept person (teela brown) with us yust because we have sex at the time. Find a more skilled sex partner in prill okay teela you might go live your life on this place that has tried to murder you several times in a month afther seeing what the lonelisness did to prill. Her friends is a smart savage that is seeking the end of the arc (it's a ring but from their point of view it could be a arc). Better not tell him even tough he seems sensibleand could do good. What's the point Louis doesn't care and it's a convenient method to get rid of teela afther finding a better savage sex partner (prill). Prill learning english in less then a month casually mentiones that it was here race that invented a medicine far superiour that louis anti aging drugs and some super powerful wire that lands on the planet. Not to mention has years of experience in manipulating and juryrigging the ring world material that can protect them against the big bad and knows where the equipment is that can make more. Hehehe Louis doest care she's a barbararic trained as a whore, who must have little skills. But she can tag along.
I like Prill she's a little off at the start because of years of isolation but all she really wants is to return to civilisation. I suspect she's more or less trolling and using Louis to get the hell out of their back to civilisation and as a protection against Nessus. It basicly works tough. And she's the real gift of the story as she knows all the great inmortality drugs and she knows where the material is to make the ringworld material that can protect against the explosion coming from the center of the universe.
Nessus is weird he is completly alian he knows what he does whith the tasp is wrong and he only uses it when he is in danger. Their might be be a logic on him using the tool against prill because at first it did save his life and I can following his logic using it again against her during sex so. So she would be conditioned to obey them for sexual pleasure in stead of the tasp with is like herooin shots. I see it's logic but I don't agree with it. You see that she's fully aware of what's happening and tries to seek protecting from the forced drugs. Altough afther making it clear. That they could talk it over it Mutual interest in stead of forcing he pleasure centers into obeying Louis does do the rare thing and actually helps Prill altough it could very well have been a excuse to lash out.
Teela brown is the reader. She's a blank wall that's their to explain things to the reader. I don't really buy into the luck of teela brown. She ends up on a world that wan't to kill her with some guy she met a couple of months ago. That has a semi religious quest that she knows doesn't exist.
From my point of view:
what happens with Nessus? I suspect he will eventually be revived?
Prill's probably doing okay she knows all the interesting places on the ringworld. Where they made the ringfloor material where their jury rigged mess was to walk trough it. The police station also was here house she proibably had a lot of the anti aging drug to sell and equipment to find the other engineers from the space ship. SHe could return to honor their vow. That if one of them found civilization they would return to reque the others.
Speaker to animal probably get his ship and by that his name. He didn't die so it will end up good for him. His race will probably return to the ringworld to discover it's hidden secrets and speaker to animal anticipating humans will probably return as a envoy
Louis probably returns home quicly grows tired of Prill. He does his thing expect a hero's return and then grow bored again 30 years later.
Nessus god knows what his race wanted. They can't settle the ringworld and they won't try. The ringworld proves dangerous and doesn't really hold anything that the puppeteers value exept for the ringfloor material. Sill it's worth having and if not themself the will send a envoy to claim the technology. I suspect They all return except for Louis wu. Louis wu doesn't care
I liked it.
I think I liked Speaker-to-Animals best. I like the fact how his species relay so much on their instincts and how he Always holds himself back to analyse the bigger picture . I didn't like Louis. Louis whould have accepted the mission no matter what because he was bored giving him that new space ship makes him look more amiable. He really needed someone like Nessus bi polar (brave and cowardly) In fact I suspect him to be a sociopath. It would explain his interactions. Let's take this inept person (teela brown) with us yust because we have sex at the time. Find a more skilled sex partner in prill okay teela you might go live your life on this place that has tried to murder you several times in a month afther seeing what the lonelisness did to prill. Her friends is a smart savage that is seeking the end of the arc (it's a ring but from their point of view it could be a arc). Better not tell him even tough he seems sensibleand could do good. What's the point Louis doesn't care and it's a convenient method to get rid of teela afther finding a better savage sex partner (prill). Prill learning english in less then a month casually mentiones that it was here race that invented a medicine far superiour that louis anti aging drugs and some super powerful wire that lands on the planet. Not to mention has years of experience in manipulating and juryrigging the ring world material that can protect them against the big bad and knows where the equipment is that can make more. Hehehe Louis doest care she's a barbararic trained as a whore, who must have little skills. But she can tag along.
I like Prill she's a little off at the start because of years of isolation but all she really wants is to return to civilisation. I suspect she's more or less trolling and using Louis to get the hell out of their back to civilisation and as a protection against Nessus. It basicly works tough. And she's the real gift of the story as she knows all the great inmortality drugs and she knows where the material is to make the ringworld material that can protect against the explosion coming from the center of the universe.
Nessus is weird he is completly alian he knows what he does whith the tasp is wrong and he only uses it when he is in danger. Their might be be a logic on him using the tool against prill because at first it did save his life and I can following his logic using it again against her during sex so. So she would be conditioned to obey them for sexual pleasure in stead of the tasp with is like herooin shots. I see it's logic but I don't agree with it. You see that she's fully aware of what's happening and tries to seek protecting from the forced drugs. Altough afther making it clear. That they could talk it over it Mutual interest in stead of forcing he pleasure centers into obeying Louis does do the rare thing and actually helps Prill altough it could very well have been a excuse to lash out.
Teela brown is the reader. She's a blank wall that's their to explain things to the reader. I don't really buy into the luck of teela brown. She ends up on a world that wan't to kill her with some guy she met a couple of months ago. That has a semi religious quest that she knows doesn't exist.
From my point of view:
what happens with Nessus? I suspect he will eventually be revived?
Prill's probably doing okay she knows all the interesting places on the ringworld. Where they made the ringfloor material where their jury rigged mess was to walk trough it. The police station also was here house she proibably had a lot of the anti aging drug to sell and equipment to find the other engineers from the space ship. SHe could return to honor their vow. That if one of them found civilization they would return to reque the others.
Speaker to animal probably get his ship and by that his name. He didn't die so it will end up good for him. His race will probably return to the ringworld to discover it's hidden secrets and speaker to animal anticipating humans will probably return as a envoy
Louis probably returns home quicly grows tired of Prill. He does his thing expect a hero's return and then grow bored again 30 years later.
Nessus god knows what his race wanted. They can't settle the ringworld and they won't try. The ringworld proves dangerous and doesn't really hold anything that the puppeteers value exept for the ringfloor material. Sill it's worth having and if not themself the will send a envoy to claim the technology. I suspect They all return except for Louis wu. Louis wu doesn't care
