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Summary: Best Informative guide For any Series
Review: A great book to help comprehend the Dragonriders of Pern series. A good companion to have when reading any Pern book!
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Summary: All the info you wanted to know, but couldn't find
Review: Do you love Anne McCaffrey's Pern books? Did you ever wonder exactly what a bubbly pie was or how klah really tastes? Want the recipe? It's all in this book. I took this home and kicked my family out of the kitchen for hours. Klah is fabulous if you like coffee, cinnamon, and chocolate. Do you want to know what the Rukbat system looks like? There's a map of Rukbat here. And what are those bloody threads made of anyway? And how do the dragonriders predict where they'll fall next? It's all right here in this cover-to-cover learning experience
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Summary: OK I guess....
Review: Has some marginally interesting tidbits, but on the whole I'd rather see more maps, diagrams of the Hold and Weyr layouts, etc. A lot of the stuff covered here is already covered in "Dragonsdawn" and in other similar short stories. I did enjoy the short story on F'lessan, although having read "The Littlest Dragonboy" already, the novelty of the idea of Impression is diminished. Why not write on something different?And what is with some of the portraits throughout the book? Menolly looks downright goofy, Jaxom looks....WEIRD.... and Lessa looks kinda gaunt. There are several other drawings of "anonymous" people that are much better, what gives!
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Summary: The book was informative, but lacked one thing-a map of Pern
Review: I bought this book about 6 years ago and have just recently reread it. I am a High School English Teacher and in a few weeks I will be teaching "DragonSong." I love the Pern books and probably know more about Pern than I do about my own country; however, I was disappointed because this book does not include a map of Pern with all the Holds, Crafts, and Weyrs. How dumb! I was forced to pull out another of McCaffrey's books so I could place some of the minor Holds. Besides this one fault, I found the book informative and an excellent tool for my future lessons
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Summary: Error Fraught
Review: I don't think Jody read a single DRoP book before writing this, nor did her editor. The book is fraught with anomalies, contradictions to Anne's works, and internal contradictions. The information, although sometimes thorough, is presented haphazardly, with entire paragraphs being repeated in different areas, information out of place, etc. There are numerous instances of contradictory information within pages of each other and more contradictions the the DRoP books than you can shake a stick at. The portraits look as though the people are FROM another planet, not simply living on one. The new chapters in the second edition are merely synopses (sp?) of the new stories and contain no further information. Should I go on? I was completely dissapointed after hearing that this was the "authoritative guide to PERN".
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Summary: Very informative about the development of the people of Pern
Review: I found this book good reading, for the most part. Like any "instructional" type companion book for a series, it can be dry at times...but it's still a good read! I found out some things that the series books had left out, or didn't explain too thouroughly. The illustrations were really great, too! My perception of just how big Ramoth was definitely changed after I read this book! All in all...not bad, if you're a McCaffrey/Pern fan. Worth buying!
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Summary: Very informative about the development of the people of Pern
Review: I found this book good reading, for the most part. Like any "instructional" type companion book for a series, it can be dry at times...but it's still a good read! I found out some things that the series books had left out, or didn't explain too thouroughly. The illustrations were really great, too! My perception of just how big Ramoth was definitely changed after I read this book! All in all...not bad, if you're a McCaffrey/Pern fan. Worth buying!
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Summary: excellent
Review: I just finished that last of the books about pern. I really enjoyed the guide because it helped me clear up a few questions i had about time lines. Thanks to ms McCafrey for a wonderful story that gave me many hours of true enjoyment. My sons are reading the series now.
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Summary: excellent
Review: I just finished that last of the books about pern. I really enjoyed the guide because it helped me clear up a few questions i had about time lines. Thanks to ms McCafrey for a wonderful story that gave me many hours of true enjoyment. My sons are reading the series now.
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Summary: Very misleading and inconsistent!!!!
Review: I was infuriated by this "guide" to Pern. Not only is it not up to standard to the 1st edition, it's very inconsistent in its contents. The descriptions in the series books don't match those in the guide. The drawings of places, objects, animals and people don't match the descriptions in books and the previously published pictures.
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