Task: Sentiment Analysis
Input (English): Only slightly better than Throne . Not quite the crapfest that was book 3 in the Ringworld series, but still a gigantic disappointment coming from Niven.  Children is plagued by the same things that made the previous novel so unbearable: flat, uninteresting characters, ridiculous names, obsession over interspecies sex for no reason other than to include sex in the story, and overall a poorly written plot.  To be fair, I didn't come out of this one as bewildered as after Ringworld Throne - don't even ask me to summarize THAT plot, I've yet to come across a decent one myself, mostly because trying to figure it out can cause lasting brain damage.  But even so, this novel is nowhere near the original Ringworld novel, or even Engineers for that matter.  Avoid if possible
Output (English): NEG