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Originally Posted by montsnmags
One of hers I really liked though was The Ship Who Sang. It was at least 20-25 years ago that I read it, but I remember enjoying it.
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Yes, The Ship who Sang is one of her better ones, as is The ship who searched, set in the same universe. I have to say that I don't enjoy the other ones such as The ship who Won, The City who fought, etc anywhere as much.
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Originally Posted by nekokami
I liked the Talent short stories, though not the novels quite as much. I have to admit I quit reading the Pern books after one in which it's tossed out at the start of a chapter that two major characters have had children, but no more details are provided. It just started to feel like Ms. McCaffrey was going through the motions to satisfy the publisher and fans, rather than writing something she actually cared about.
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Agreed, The Pern series at time's does remind me of the old pulps, just going through the motions. However there are some gems, in some of the story arcs.
The Harperhall Trilogy (Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums), is one of the best arcs in the series, in combination with The White Dragon, as it does run in parallel to the arc. Also The Masterharper of pern, to get the backstory.
Haven't read or bought any of the ones that came out after All The Weyrs Of Pern, as while I did enjoy it, I wasn't that intrested in what happened after.
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Originally Posted by Mindy
I quite enjoyed the Crystal Singer ones, there was something a bit different about them that has stuck with me even though I read them over 10 years ago.
Similar, though not to the same extent with the Talent books, and a bit less so again with Pern (although they're the sort of thing I'd seriously think about re-reading as ebooks).
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I did enjoy the Crystal singer series, but I tend to mainly reread the first two, as I don't enjoy the third one as much.
I have to admit that I've never gotten that much into her Arcona series. I just couldn't care enough about all the characters to want to find out what happens.
Still, Nimisha's Ship is one of my Favourites and as it a standalone book, its a nice reread.