“Lucifer’s Hammer” boring so far: Audiobook-SF-In Progress
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle is, I've read, considered a classic novel in the SF global disaster genre. I've read a number of Niven's other novels (mostly in the Protector/Ringworld series). And, although I've never read Pournelle's novels, I was a huge fan of his old Byte magazine Chaos Manor tech column. So, I figured the 24 hour 32 minute long audiobook version would be a treat. After all, the hardcopy novel has a 4 star rating on Amazon and a 4.5 star rating on Audible.
This isn't the case, in my opinion, so far though. I'm about 7 hours into the Audible version of the audio book right now. And, it has just been a mish-mash of uninteresting soap opera character stories so far. I have yet to care about any of the characters so far. The operative word at this ~7 hour point is "Boring".
I'm hoping that it "gets good" soon. In fact, I'm so hopeful, that I'm not going to give up on the book. However, it is so boring at this point, that I'm taking a break and listening to something else for a while (Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol"). More on this next...
November 9th, 2009 - 09:00
Yes the pace of the story picks up considerably once the hammer drops. Then prepare yourself for a horrific view of the mankind’s behavior when met with the potential extinction. Trust me it is not pretty.
November 11th, 2009 - 20:23
Ed: Thanks for your feedback. In middle of listing to Super Freakonomics at the moment. Will force myself back to Lucifier’s Hammer after finishing that and wait for the story to pick up.