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Summary: My 2nd favorite McCaffrey-book
Review: This book is my second favorite McCaffrey-book after Dragonflight, and Anne McCaffrey has certainly done a good job at describing how the dragons were created. At some points the plot goes a little slower but it picks up again later and gives a triumphant ending. This was defenately something I needed to explain all the smaller bits about Dragonflight, and I still refer back to it while reading the other books.
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Summary: My First Love
Review: This book is excellent! I absolutely fell in love with Dragonsdawn. I had not heard of Anne McCaffery until a few years ago when I randomly picked up her book. I am obessed with imagination, but always disapointed when I realize that it can NEVER be real. Yet, when I read Dragonsdawn, it let an "impossible" myth that dominated my fantasy become a reality. Not by some magic or undefinable subtance, but by a "logic" by science that doesn't seem incrediable. As for the charaters, I was enchanted by the young, red-headed Sorka and the free spirited, son of the Roaming folk Sean. And I fell in love with the loyal dragonet/firelizards. To me the greatest test of a book is weather I want to read another book about the same place and people. I loved this beginning hope of Pern, trashed by disater and conspiracy only to find another way to hope again, so much that it took me a whole year to read anymore about Pern. Afraid that the sequels whould distroy the greatness built by the one book. I highly recommend this book, an ultimate beginning.
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Summary: Anne McCaffrey Gives a Wonderful Explanation of Loved Books
Review: I Don't see why a lot of people don't like how the book explains everything. I am 13 and have read 6 of her books, 2 twice. I told my teacher, who has read two, about how they didn't really breed the dragons but they did that whole computer thing. She was suprised so I told her all about it. I loved how she explained everything and I hope there is a second book with these loved characters. I'd appreciate a list of the books in the order they were written since I've read the first 6 backwards.
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Summary: An amazing book
Review: My first real SF, this is an amazing piece of literature, a must for all SF fans. Anne McCaffrey has once again masterfully woven together science, fantasy and suspense to create another good book
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Summary: Worth reading, but not spectacular
Review: Anne McCaffrey's Pern series is a favorite of three of my best friends, so they all conspired to push this book into my hands (I hadn't read any others before). While it wasn't a waste of time, I did feel a bit disappointed. Perhaps this was because it slipped between sci-fi and fantasy, and I definitely prefer science fiction (as I preferred the sci-fi parts of this book). But there were also places where I felt the characters were a bit unrealistic given the situations. While I've already promised to read Dragonflight, I don't think this series will hold my attention beyond that.
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Summary: Read Dragonsinger 1st!
Review: I recommend for you to start with the harper hall series. Dragonsinger, dragonsong, dragondrums. Or read the Lessa series (dragonquest, the white dragon, etc) first. This is a book for when you can't get enough of Pern and you want to know more! There is also a Dragonlover's guide to Pern book for those of us who love Pern. It has recipes for Klah and bubbly pies! (I have tried the bubbly pies and they turned out good!)
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Summary: A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT
Review: ALLRIGHT, THIS IS THE FIRST PERN BOOK THAT I'V READ, (AND PROBABLY THE LAST,) SO I MAY NOT HAVE PICKED UP ON ALL THE FORESHADOWING TO LATER BOOKS OR SOMETHING, BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY BORING. ACTUALLY I THOUGHT THE BEGINNING WAS PRETTY GOOD(HENCE THE TWO STARS INSTEAD OF ONE) BUT IT RAPIDLY DEGENERATED TO A COMBINATION UNIMAGINATIVE FANTASY, LAUGHABLE ATTEMPT AT SCI-FI, AND A SOAP OPERA. AFTER ALL THE HIPE THESE PERN BOOKS HAVE BEEN RECEIVING I EXPECTED MUCH BETTER. FOR A BOOK WITH A REALLY GOOD PLOT I WOULD RECOMMEND TOLKEINS LORD OF THE RINGS OR ROBERT JORDANS WHEEL OF TIME, OR FOR SCI-FI, ISAAC ASIMOVS THE ROBOT SERIES.
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Summary: Perfect!
Review: I read Dragonsong about a year ago and loved it. I had wished there were more of her books somewhere, but I couldn't find any. About six months after that I was looking in the library when the title Dragonsdawn drew my eye. I read the book and since then I have read The Dolphins of Pern, Moreta, Dragonlady of Pern, the Dragonriders of Pern trilogy, and Dragonseye. I love Anne McCaffrey books!
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Summary: First Love with Pern
Review: Dragons Dawn was my first McCaffrey read and I fell in love with her creativity. The fantasy of a new world far away from the everyday reach of earth. For all those who read this you are guaranteed to become hooked. Fall in love with a dragon today.
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Summary: Very entertaining.
Review: I loved Dragonsdawn, it was a really informative story of early life on Pern. I'd have liked for McCaffrey to have enlightened us a bit more on what happened exactly to Avril Bitra, and told whether it was the star itself or the tail behind it that dropped the nasty spores. Can someone tell me if she has any books on the time before they came to Pern??
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