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Anyone able to tell me the order to read the Pern novels?
But if you're all about the destination, then take a fucking flight.
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And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.


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1.Dragonflight
2.Dragonquest
3.Dragonsong
4.Dragonsinger
5.Dragondrums
6.The White Dragon (any time after 2)
7.Moreta
8.Nerilka's Story
9.Dragonsdawn
10.The Chronicles of Pern
11."The Impression" (any time after 4)
12."Smallest Dragonboy" (any time after 5)
13."Girl Who Heard Dragons"
14.The Renegades of Pern
15.All the Weyrs of Pern
16.The Dolphins of Pern
17.Dragonseye (any time after 10)
18.The Masterharper of Pern (any time after 6)
19"Runner of Pern" (any time after 1)
20.The Skies of Pern (any time after 16)
21."Ever the Twain" (any time after 17)
22.Dragon's Kin (any time after 17)
23."Beyond Between" (any time after 8)

The 'any time after's are because a number of books cover concurrent events. :)
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8O Wow, didnt know there was so many.
Cheers Edge.
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I've read 1-10, 14-18, and 20......11-13 are short stories, right? And 19, 21, 22 & 23 are co-written by McCaffrey, IIRC.
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion

I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.

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Re-reading : The Sword of Shannara - then im going to read the other 50 books in the series.. 1337
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Will read The Healthy Dead by Erikson today.
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Ainulindale wrote:
Hope you enjoy it. For what it's worth, I was turned on to Death of the Necromancer by an old "Best of Sci-Fi/Fantasy" list on SFSite.com that I was poking through in search of more prospects to check out.
Encryptic, I jsut got a response back from Ms. Wells, and I just wanted to let you know she has granted my site a upcoming interview 8)
Nice! I'd love to read that when you get it up on the site. :D

I just started reading Element of Fire last night, as a matter of fact.

On another note: I tried to get into Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell but after about 250 pages, I just couldn't feel compelled to go on. It's not a bad book, but there was just something missing. Maybe I'll give it another shot at a later date and see if my opinion changes.

Not to mention, her style of putting footnotes on practically every page got really irritating after a while. Footnotes are fine when I'm reading a non-fiction book, but they just distracted from the main plot here.
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Encryptic wrote:That said, it's good to see someone else actually reading his stuff on KW. I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one besides SRD who had actually heard of this guy. :D

If you enjoy the Swans War, I'd also recommend checking out his River Into Darkness duology (Beneath the Vaulted Hills and The Compass of the Soul). No connection to Swans War, but still a great read if you like his style.

He's also written a couple of other duologies (Moontide and Magic Rise, The Initiate Brother), but I didn't find them as good as the rest of his stuff.
While rough, I enjoyed the Initiate Brother much more than the River Into Darkness series. But I read Russell as he came out so that might have had something to do with it.

I really disliked his mystery that he is co-writing and hope he is hard at work on a new fantasy project, though he updates his website even worse than Tor does theirs.
Interesting. What's this mystery he's co-writing?
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Not to mention, her style of putting footnotes on practically every page got really irritating after a while. Footnotes are fine when I'm reading a non-fiction book, but they just distracted from the main plot here.
I said this in the Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell thread but noone there agreed with me, now i have another member in the 'CLIQUE AGAINST FOOTNOTES CLIQUE' ;)

I would urge you to continue though :D
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Defintely agree with Warmark, the first portion of this novel is the portion that seems to universally give problems to readers. I didn't think it was that prevalent, but won't deny it's existance, however even considering that, IMHO the best novel of 2004.
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Warmark wrote:
Not to mention, her style of putting footnotes on practically every page got really irritating after a while. Footnotes are fine when I'm reading a non-fiction book, but they just distracted from the main plot here.
I said this in the Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell thread but noone there agreed with me, now i have another member in the 'CLIQUE AGAINST FOOTNOTES CLIQUE' ;)

I would urge you to continue though :D
Yeah, I'll probably pick it up later on. I have this really stubborn habit of refusing to give up on a book if I read some of it and there *was* some redeeming quality to it. I may not finish it the first time, but I just *have* to come back to it later and try it again. Sometimes it takes me a bit to get used to the style, or the book started out slow, etc.

This has happened with quite a few books that have since then become personal favorites of mine (Covenant, Book of the New Sun, etc.).
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Dragon Knight by Gordon R. Dickson
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion

I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.

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Going Postal by Terry Pratchett again.
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Just about everything that I have read, that I am reading, and that I intend to read are now found here.
But I'll still be posting here to say what I think of them.
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Right now I'm reading two book...Order of the Phoenix (HArry Potter) and the Hobbit.

This is my first time trough the HP books.
I'm reading the Hobbit to my five year old--about a chapter a night (Except the really long chapters-lilke Queer Lodgings--took us two nights)
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Perdido Street Station by Mieville.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill
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I'm reading the Hobbit to my five year old
I remember when my mum read the Hobbit to me night by night. It's such a shame that everything must come to an end.
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drew wrote:I'm reading the Hobbit to my five year old--about a chapter a night (Except the really long chapters-lilke Queer Lodgings--took us two nights)
I skipped that chapter when reading it to my kids. I want them to be adults before I have to tell them about San Francisco..... :screwy:
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion

I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.

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dANdeLION wrote:
drew wrote:I'm reading the Hobbit to my five year old--about a chapter a night (Except the really long chapters-lilke Queer Lodgings--took us two nights)
I skipped that chapter when reading it to my kids. I want them to be adults before I have to tell them about San Francisco..... :screwy:
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