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
I loved that series, but boy do I agree with the *painful* part.
Since I discovered fanfic, I have NOT been able to pick it up again, because I KNOW what is going to happen. Same thing for many other novels with the same themes, because why on earth did they all have to have ambiguous or outright sad endings? The closest to happy I could ever find was one where it was implied it might end up MMF :/
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Re: AYRT
(Anonymous) 2022-03-29 02:35 am (UTC)(link)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
Re: AYRT
(Anonymous) 2022-03-29 04:46 am (UTC)(link)I LOVED her Heralds series but reading it again later as an adult- especially the series with Vanyel- was PAINFUL.
Though I did re-read the Griffon trilogy and it was pretty good.
Re: AYRT
(Anonymous) 2022-03-29 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)Since I discovered fanfic, I have NOT been able to pick it up again, because I KNOW what is going to happen. Same thing for many other novels with the same themes, because why on earth did they all have to have ambiguous or outright sad endings? The closest to happy I could ever find was one where it was implied it might end up MMF :/