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[kippurbird]

I was reading lccorp2 look at Todd McCaffery's (Yes I know it says that Anne was on there) Dragon Harper and I remembered with great pain, Todd's Dragon's Blood. The one with the great plague which killed off a lot of people (as opposed to this book where there's a great plague that kills off a lot of people). It was so cringe inducing and making me want

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[kippurbird]

I think he's kind of stuck on the idea. It's an easy plot device. What also irks me is that he's trying to explain away all the "things" that were mentioned in Anne's books, like the body of the dragon and rider that F'lar mentions to Lessa when teaching her how to go between.

[palmer_kun]

It's also a great way to justify the fact there's NO technological development in the series.

[lccorp2]

Oh, but don't you remember the literal deus ex machina--AIVAS?

[authoressarktos]

Oh no, not Pern. Anything but Pern. I mean, I know people like it, but for me those books were just...D=

[dove_cg]

I liked the series about the little fire lizards or whatever they were called, along with the Harpers. It was kind of stereotypical in some ways but a fun series (I also read it years ago, my opinion might change if I read them now.) The larger series, devoted to just the dragons, didn't grip me as much. I heard the first three books she wrote were good but I only read a few that had come out after that and found them decent but nothing exciting.

[kippurbird]

That would have been the Harper Hall trilogy. They're a fun read, but not for anything deep.

[authoressarktos]

Yeah, I did like those a bit. As you said, not anything special, but okay.

[lccorp2]

Aww. Now I feel all warm and fuzzy.

Seriously, though, Pern's lost it's magic for me, even though it was what got me into dragons in the first place. -.-

[ana_beachcombe]

People keep telling me to read Pern, and I've tried, but I never got far - I just found the writing too dull and confusing.

[hellaweasels]

In my world, Todd's stuff is not talked about [except to be mocked and scorned] and the last, oh, three books or so- don't exist. Id est, no AIVAS, et c. [of course, in my world, F'lessan's shacking up with Jaxom who's now riding a green, but I digress.]