John Klein <zarkon at illrepute.org> writes: > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Chris Turkel wrote: > > @> I read that trilogy and thought, "What a good idea. Too bad you ruined > @> it." I feel the same way about the Pern books: There are some good > @> ideas there but she ruins them. My aunt copy edited Acorna's World and > @> thought her style was stiff. > > Ditto on this. > > Pern is kinda a bothersome one for me. Literally every single > SF-knowledgeable person I knew told me the Pern books were excellent, so I > ended up buying four even though I hated every one. I just kept hoping the > next one would be better. Dear me. The vast majority of SF readers I know would tell you that the first couple (Dragonflight and Dragonquest) and probably the first three of the Harper Hall books (Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums) were quite good, and after that it went rapidly downhill. In other words she peaked a couple of decades ago and has been coasting ever since. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info