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fnorfurfoot said:
That seems to be a popular question.

It goes back about 16 years ago when I was in high school. I started playing role playing games in the library with some friends and the game we started with was based on J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth. I was a hobbit. When I named my character, I borrowed F'nor from my favorite author Anne McCaffrey's Dragon Riders of Pern series. Then, because the character I was playing was a hobbit, Furfoot became my last name.

So all it is is proof of the fact that I am a fantasy dork.
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I noticed this the other day, and didn't get a chance to respond to it. I love Anne McCaffrey's series, especially the original 2 Pern trilogies - F'nor is a great character, in a lot of ways much more the compleat dragonrider than F'lar - but my favorite character will always be Menolly... I'm not very talented musically, but I always empathized with her, and knew what it was like to not fit in; reading about Menolly in middle school helped me through in ways I didn't understand until years afterward.
 
Kacey said:
I noticed this the other day, and didn't get a chance to respond to it. I love Anne McCaffrey's series, especially the original 2 Pern trilogies - F'nor is a great character, in a lot of ways much more the compleat dragonrider than F'lar - but my favorite character will always be Menolly... I'm not very talented musically, but I always empathized with her, and knew what it was like to not fit in; reading about Menolly in middle school helped me through in ways I didn't understand until years afterward.
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Happy to find another Pern fan. I just finished McCaffrey's Maelstrom. Now I have to catch up with the few books I haven't read yet. Dinosaur planet and the sequel are next on my list.
 
I really liked the original trilogy and the "Harper's Hall" one as well. I have to admit I got a lil tired of it after that.
 
SFC JeffJ said:
I really liked the original trilogy and the "Harper's Hall" one as well. I have to admit I got a lil tired of it after that.
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There are a few that I read just out of faithfulness to the author but if you haven't read it yet, The Masterharper of Pern was excellent. It's takes place just before the first trilogy.
 
fnorfurfoot said:
Happy to find another Pern fan. I just finished McCaffrey's Maelstrom. Now I have to catch up with the few books I haven't read yet. Dinosaur planet and the sequel are next on my list.
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I have pretty much all of her books that have come out in paperback; of course, I have a couple thousand books in the house... I haven't read Maelstrom yet - I'm on the list for the library, but with so many books in the house, I refuse to buy any more hardbacks (except the last Harry Potter...) not just for the cost, but the space. I really need to build another bookcase... but since I'm going to move some walls in the basement this summer, and I want to build in shelving when I replace the walls, there's really no reason to do it yet.

fnorfurfoot said:
There are a few that I read just out of faithfulness to the author but if you haven't read it yet, The Masterharper of Pern was excellent. It's takes place just before the first trilogy.
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I agree - a very well-written book that fills in a lot of things that didn't track between Moreta's time and F'lar's childhood - especially the change in the social situation.
 
Kacey said:
I have pretty much all of her books that have come out in paperback; of course, I have a couple thousand books in the house... I haven't read Maelstrom yet - I'm on the list for the library, but with so many books in the house, I refuse to buy any more hardbacks (except the last Harry Potter...) not just for the cost, but the space. I really need to build another bookcase... but since I'm going to move some walls in the basement this summer, and I want to build in shelving when I replace the walls, there's really no reason to do it yet.

I have the same problem with book space here. I have just about everything of McCaffrey's as well. The only books of hers that I know I don't have are her romance/non fantasy books and the space pirate series. I wish she would do another brain/brawn book.
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