Yeah, there is a lot of childhood fiction that we can pull out now and are problematic. Some of it, I am willing to give a pass as simply a product of their time, but others are definitely not ones I want to revisit.

The pern series falls into the second category, I have found other dragon stories, and fanworks of the pern series tends to do a much better job of working with the world building than the actual pern series, so I can get my 'dragon fix' in different novels than the pern books.

Same thing for Mercedes Lackey. I loved her novels when I first found them and still look upon them fondly, but so many novels like that just had unhappy endings. I want happy endings :P