What have you been reading?

[ColdWizard]

Your loss.

[MrFun]

It wouldn't make sense to read one novel that starts at an earlier time, then read the next published novel that starts at a later time, then read the next published novel that starts at a time before the first one I read.

I want to follow the succeeding generations of the colonists, to see how the settlements change over time, and how the culture develops.

[ColdWizard]

You can do that in reverse order, see how things are and then how they got there. Anyway, if you don't care that there may be references in the later books that could act as spoilers to things published earlier, then by all means carry on.

[MrFun]

I'm not too concerned about any spoilers. Some of them I might not remember by the time I get to the relevant book.

[ColdWizard]

Let me know what you think of the third pass books, I've not bothered to read them yet.

[MrFun]

okey dokey

[laurimann]

Eric Stade - Fourier Analysis

Excellent book, very easy to follow and has good jokes here and there. A real joy for a maths book!

[Jon Miller]

I thought that the first 1-2 pern books were the best, the rest I dn't conisder worth owning.

JM

[The Mad Monk]

It wouldn't make sense to read one novel that starts at an earlier time, then read the next published novel that starts at a later time, then read the next published novel that starts at a time before the first one I read.

I want to follow the succeeding generations of the colonists, to see how the settlements change over time, and how the culture develops.

So, how was The Silmarillion?

[MrFun]

Never read that.

[The Mad Monk]

How did you follow the succeeding generations of elves and hobbits, then?

[MrFun]

Uh, because they have nothing to do with the Pern series.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I really wouldn't read them in the in-universe chronological order. Publication order would make for a better understanding of the world, characters and culture.

This is always the right thing to do. Like the Chronicles of Narnia, the only way to really read them is in publication order... or else Magician's Nephew would be far more confused and less "aha!!" I'd think. Obviously the author intended people to know the previous bits of the story even if it was set prior to the earlier books.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Uh, because they have nothing to do with the Pern series.

That analogy flew completely over your head didn't it?

[MrFun]

I really have no idea what Mad Monk was getting at. Chalk this up as a "WHOOSH" moment for me.