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Summary: Few ideas and lots of crying
Review: An unfortunate next edition in which very few new ideas are presented. The not to bright leaders deal with the very stupid commoners. Contrived throughout
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Summary: Zaireuk pern reveiw
Review: Ann McCaffrey brings us back to the world of pern with this book "the skies of pern". Finally thread has been reduced to a threat to young children, Aivas has shut himself down and lessa and F'lar have taken a slight step away from the limelight. But who could possibly take over the leaders of pern, Only Master Robinton surely but no he's dead. No other character springs to mind, but we are given the only Son of Lessa and F'lar, F'lessan and his Broze Goliath who we now no longer see as the irresponsible weyrling of old but now the bold courageous and passionate young man he has turned into. Anne McCaffrey has again come up with a wonderfull story filled with lust, love, destruction and heroism as would be expected from the world we know as pern.
Well wearth a read continuing to keep Ms. McCaffreys superb world of pern alive and soaring with it's dragons. You may as well go between if you do not like this book. Definately one of the best in a series of well written superbly told books.
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Summary: Anyone else spot a major misprint
Review: Did anyone else spot the major misprint that is driving me nuts. How can the Green Rider be Tia on the Back and Front Cover and Tai in the book.Unless there is a nickname I know nothing about!!! This probably wouldn't be enough on it's own to drive me crazy but I think this character has appeared in another book and I cannot think where to find this to find out which is the correct name.Anyone got any ideas. Also, reading it at the moment, and I agree with the review that states do not read this with out reading other Pern books. There are a lot of wonderful characters that have their story told in other Pern books that you should read to understand how they have reached this point.
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Summary: Up to the high standards
Review: I've read all of the Dragonriders of Pern series in six months and finding a new one was good. In my opinion it lives up to the high standards of quality set in the first books (seems like there may even be less mistakes). I now cannot wait for the rest to see the fate of Pern. true pern fan will find no problems will slight inconsistencies (we should be use to it from all the others!)
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Summary: New dangers from above threaten the dragonriders of Pern
Review: I have been rather ambivalent about the consistent intrusion of science fiction into the fantasy world of Anne McCaffrey's Pern series, mainly because "hard" science is not my forte. But since my background is on a level similar to the citizens of Pern, I have not exactly been lost on the proceedings. "The Skies of Pern" starts off with Pern taking tentative steps towards preparing for the new world that will exist when this final Threadfall passes. However, not everyone is happy with the brave new world ushered into existence through the help of Aivas, the supercomputer at Landing. Actually, I found the beginning of this book rather unsettling, dealing as it did with fundamentalist terrorists displaying the sort of intolerance with which we have all become too familiar in recent months. But just as I was convinced "The Skies of Pern" was a novel about the clash between two sides dealing with "new" technology, the first of two traumatic events in the novel occurred. McCaffrey is indeed expanding the Pern mythos by adding an interesting problem-solution pair. The problem is that there are other harmful objects that can fall from the sky besides Thread, and the solution is that dragons can do more than telepathy and teleportation. On the interpersonal level the emphasis is on has clearly shifted from the generation of F'lar and Lessa to that of Jaxom and F,lessan, especially the later this time around as there is a young green dragon rider who has caught his eyes and taken him away from his study of the ways of the Ancients. The irony that those "ancient" ways are well advanced beyond the essentially feudal level continues to impact the growing narrative. This latest Pern novel is clearly more than treading water, and although I wish McCaffrey would give Menolly more to do, I must admit that the main reason I am looking forward to the next one is that I really, really, REALLY want to see Lord Toric get his comeuppance. This is still one of the first rate fantasy/science fiction series of all time, spun by a writer who clearly has an affection for not only dragons but their human companions.
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Summary: Well intentioned but poorly balanced
Review: The Skies of Pern takes up shortly after Avias and Masterharper Robinton die. Pern is seeing a technological rebirth with the revalation of the technology stored by Avias, and the days of the thread are coming to an end. The book explores the concern that the dragonriders have about their future employment, and the 'unwashed' elements of society who want to destroy the progress of Avias. I've always enjoyed Anne McCaffrey's work. Pern has never been my favorate of her series, but I've read just about every novel in it. When I heard that "The Skies of Pern" had come out, I decided to give it a go. I sort of wish I hadn't, well at least not in hardback. "The Skies of Pern" is a singularly uneven piece of fiction. While it is decently written, there were too many things going on to keep track very well. The jumping about made me lose interest quickly. I prefer a solid storyline that is cohesive. This novel sort of lacked that. It took me a week to finish this one, which is not normal for me. The whole Meteor plotline felt way too contrived and convenient to me. The Dragonriders are worried about furure employment... and WHAM. Meteor hits. "Yay! We'll all watch for meteors now." The problem was wrapped up far too easily. With a little more work, McCaffrey could have extensively explored the plight that the dragonriders now faced. There were a lot of sociological questions there. Tied in with the fight to rid pern of the 'evil' progress of Avias, there could have been a very interesting novel there. Instead, the conveniant meteor thing is used and everything is solved in 450 pages. As I said, far too contrived. McCaffrey dropped the ball on this one I think. It's a shame because there really was so much potential there. I'd say that if you enjoy the Pern series or McCaffrey, you'll enjoy this. But wait for paperback before you buy it.
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Summary: The Skies of Pern
Review: I'm a devoted fan of the Pern series as well as some of Anne McCaffreys other series but this book was a big disappointment. It was very disjointed with some characters changing drastically for no real reasonand some introduced (or reintroduced) that did not further the story line. There was no theme, just a group of individual stories that were very loosely woven together. I think this book would have been much better as a series of short stories instead of being forced into "novel mode". This is the only McCaffrey novel I have read in which I had no real involvement. The Skies of Pern was a big disappointment to me. I certainly hope the next book is up to the standard of the others in the series
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Summary: Good....but not the best in the series
Review: I was very excited to FINALLY get my hands on this book.
When I first started reading it, i was thrown right into the middle of a plot line. Throughout the book, I got lost on several parts, being as there wasn't a lot of lead in to several areas. As the book progressed, I became more and more interested, but was sadly dissappointed when i reached the end.
Usually, a good book WANTS you to wonder what happens next, but this one made me wonder: "Is this /really/ the end of this book? I mean, what?!"
Let's just say it is the only book in the series I won't give a raving review for.
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Summary: I'd read anything about Pern and love it!
Review: That's the truth. I would read a list of daily chores at Fort Hold I think and find some value in it. Seriously, I love the world that Anne McCaffrey has created. The fact that the newer novels don't stand up as well as the earlier stuff is only mildly disappointing when compared with the idea that Ms McCaffrey might stop writing about Pern altogether! So, I read what I've got and I thoroughly enjoy them. So, the Skies of Pern is nothing so good as the first trilogy that started the series or the White Dragon but it's a good read for devoted fans. Enjoy.
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Summary: 5 stars for the parts about dragons, 3 or less for the rest
Review: I want to make sure Anne gets the message! This book really has 2 parts, one about social unrest and one about dragons and their bond with dragonriders. Please Anne, ANY author can write about social unrest. I read science fiction to escape depressing stuff like this! ONLY YOU can write about the incredible bond between dragons and riders. As a person who has touched that sort of bond with animals, and longs for more, Pern novels are beyond wonderful. But so many of the later ones are filled with everything but. After a couple disappointments, I started fanning through Pern novels to see how many italics appeared. If there weren't many, I didn't bother. Since I got this one on tape, I had to take a chance. But, experience has taught me that even an awful book read by Dick Hill will be bearable. If you read this book, skim the "Abominators" part - unless you love to read about downtrodden humanity and the unfairness of it all. If you do love detailed descriptions of the wretched human condition, go read Terry Goodkind's last 2 books. You will have hours of joy reading about despair.(??) I can't possibly understand that.
Thanks, Anne, for finally returning to writing about dragons.
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