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[pearwaldorf]

Checking friends page when paper (not started on, of course) is due tomorrow = baaad.

But I have to get this off my chest. Anne McCaffrey's The Skies of Pern? So. fucking. mediocre. I wanted to like it, I really did. I cut my teeth SF and fantasy-wise on Pern, and I'm glad the series has had a good run. But after the last one (Masterharper, wasn't it?), she should have stopped, especially considering the story ends where the first one began. It would be a nice sort of continuity. Skies really doesn't go anywhere, and where I thought it should end, it didn't. Like she was trying to fill a page quota. It also seems like she's trying to wrap the series up in some sort of fashion, however undignified. Personally, I would much rather the dragonriders figure out their own path, looking forward to the end of the Pass on their own, rather than have something imposed upon them, author ex machina. I really hope this is the last Pern book, because I don't think there's really any more to say about it.

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[canticle.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how accurate it is, but McCaffrey has evidently said on more than one occasion that she feels trapped into writing Pern books, and would have loved to end the series a long time ago.