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Originally Posted by Nyssa
As to my reading it, its one of those "some day I really should" type things.
My biggest concern is making sure I can find all of the books and preferably in ebook format. This is a huge series!! |
Well, if it's any help, you can probably stop reading them after
All the Weyrs of Pern, because that's the point where the story pretty much effectively wraps up for the "present-day" timeline and there's a really steep drop in quality immediately thereafter, IMHO as someone who owns a large chunk of the series in 2 languages and has kept reading them up to the next-but-latest from the library out of sheer morbid curiosity.
Also, you can try reading
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern first as a standalone, as it's an "historical" novel in the series which tells a completely self-contained tale about one of the legendary figures in Pern's past and also happens to be one of the best-plotted and best-written of the series, again IMHO as someone who has read almost-the-lot, and will also serve as a pretty good introduction to the style, culture, and basic themes of Pern.
(One of the latter being the slow generational loss of knowledge from their more industrially advanced space colonist roots due to the pressure of fighting Thread, and the way their society has become warped into a kind of increasingly feudal and un-egalitarian pattern rather different from the original settlers' intentions, by being constantly under an on-and-off siege condition which automatically gets all the resources allocated to it, leaving little left over time for societal leisure and engagement in civilized pursuits, like spending time properly preserving knowledge.)