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Originally Posted by Hitch
Uh, I dunno. I see that the DOP series is now "recommended" to be read in chronological order, and I disagree with that. I was burning with curiosity to find out what on EARTH (pun intended) had happened to the Pernese to make them medieval, when they'd come to the planet from presumably our own. I wondered if the Pernese would have arrived via some type of cross-over with another McCaffrey novel--as so many have had (brain-brawn ship, for example, in that Dinosaur Planet book--can't remember the name now). I was very pleased to read the explanatory books, after I'd been hooked into the world of Pern. (Plus, it seems that the son's books just aren't quite the "wow" that his mum's were, and I myself found some of her very later books, not necessarily DOP, but...I forget which, now, sort of...well, boring. Hard to say aloud, but true.)
Just sayin'.
Isn't there also some debate on this topic raging about Narnia, as well? Read them in chron, not published, order?
Hitch
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Certainly you could argue that one should read "The Magician's Nephew" before "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" as it does explain how some things in Narnia came to be as they are, but it isn't necessary to do so I don't think.