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Apr. 26th, 2013 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretI've re-read a couple of Anne McCaffrey's Pegasus books this week, AKA the only McCaffrey books that I can still tolerate reading as a grownup, because they're not all about dragon rape.
I don't know what to say about the books, except that especially Pegasus in Space is pure fan-service, in an unusually distilled form. I'm not really sure how McCaffrey does it, but despite tensions and conflicts and reasonably well constructed narrative, this is pure fluff where everyone you care about gets exactly what they want. Pegasus is basically a fairy story where magic solves all problems. It makes it good for re-reading when I just want books to make me happy.
I ought to be annoyed with the way Peter gets magically cured. When I think about it from a disability advocacy point of view I am a little annoyed. But I just want Peter to be happy, and McCaffrey skillfully steers us to the point where he's happy, so I can't get that annoyed.
Today is the thirty first day of the Omer
I don't know what to say about the books, except that especially Pegasus in Space is pure fan-service, in an unusually distilled form. I'm not really sure how McCaffrey does it, but despite tensions and conflicts and reasonably well constructed narrative, this is pure fluff where everyone you care about gets exactly what they want. Pegasus is basically a fairy story where magic solves all problems. It makes it good for re-reading when I just want books to make me happy.
I ought to be annoyed with the way Peter gets magically cured. When I think about it from a disability advocacy point of view I am a little annoyed. But I just want Peter to be happy, and McCaffrey skillfully steers us to the point where he's happy, so I can't get that annoyed.
Today is the thirty first day of the Omer
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Date: 2013-04-28 01:44 am (UTC)