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Summary: great stuff
Review: If you're a dragon devotee, you have to get this book, even if it means mortgaging your house. The portraits are so sensitively, humourously done, with so much understanding of the character and so much convincing detail, that you simply won't be able to look away. The only disappointment was that the title is accurate - riders are portrayed away from their dragons except for the baby Path with Mirrim, Ruth's white wing and Holth's belly as a background for Leri - but quite a lot of fire lizards are shown. Anne McCaffrey's character notes, accompanying the portraits, add a new dimension to well-loved figures. A delight on all counts, but good luck finding it new. A good place to start looking for a secondhand copy is the MX Bookfinder
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Summary: Likely to disagree with the reader
Review: Like the reviewer directly below, I found the images in this book to have a stark difference between those I conjured in my mind. Wood's images are wonderfully researched and painted, but when you will leaf to the page of any character especially close to your heart, you will find him/her to be very different from what you imagined ("I didn't think Robinton lokked like that..."). Likely this book will sever the personal link between you and the characters of the book, making them just regular people you meet, rather that close friends.
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Summary: Wonderful Perspective
Review: Robin worked closely with Anne (who has always been very protective of Pern, as well she should!) on the portraits and even if they might not be what WE've imagined - they are very close to what/how Anne sees them as she's given her approval for them to be published. I think that this is a VERY lovely book and worthwhile for the Pern fan!
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Summary: A must-have for every dragonriders fan!
Review: The artwork truly makes the people of Pern come alive. Each character is beautifully detailed exactly as I pictured him or her. I wish I could have these paintings framed in my own home.
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Summary: Stunning!
Review: The People of Pern is a beautiful book with lovely oil paintings and short biographies of every character in the books. A definite must for Dragonrider's of Pern fans!
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Summary: Incredible :-)
Review: This book is incredible! If you have the chance to even look at it, do it! Robin Wood does an wonderful job of painting the People Of Pern. If you can buy this book, I would tell you to go for it because the paintings are beautiful to look at. They also show almost exactly how these people look in McCaffrey's world. Check your public library for it!!!!;-)
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Summary: Pern is Anne's world; the people look like she says they do.
Review: This book started with the picture of Robinton, which I painted hoping that Anne would buy it at a Science Fiction convention in 1986. (She did!)A lot of people saw it there, and asked me when I was going to do a book with all the other people of Pern in it. I responded that such a book would cost too much for me to make. But I mentioned it to Anne, and she told me that I should do it; she would write character sketches, and we would be able to sell it to a publisher. And so we did. The people in her books are Anne's people; and the portraits are all Anne's conceptions of those people, not necessarily mine. (In fact, I argued with her about several of them. But, in the end, she won all the arguments. After all, they are her characters!) Some of it she cast like a movie, using actors or other famous people living and dead. Some of the characters she had written with various friends and family members in mind. For those, she kindly provided me with photographs. Some we sat down together and hammered out like police drawings. "Now make her chin sharper. Sharper. Give her more hair... " etc. I had a lot of fun, and learned a lot about Pern, while doing this book. And I would do another, but my health will no longer permit it. For all those who have loved it, and told me so over the years, thank you. For everyone else; then sell your copy! They are in demand. <g>
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Summary: Beautiful!
Review: This is a beautiful collection of portraits of the People of Pern! Intros by Anne and by Robin - Robin also talks about her painting technique. I found a mint condition copy in the Amazon auctions.
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Summary: It's fun putting a face to some of your fave dragon-people!
Review: While I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I did have a few issues with it. Some of the characters were great, some were....hmmmm! Piemur and F'nor look like total dweebs, Sharra wasn't as "unpretty" as described in "The White Dragon", and Lady Gemma looked way way way too old to be having children. She looked danged near 75 or older! Fax looked properly villanous, while I expected a less portly looking fellow. However I *loved* the portraits of F'lar and T'gellan! Whatta couple of hunks! While Lytol was a surprise(I always pictured him with a beard and a bit more portly) the artist did capture the look of a "dragonless man" fairly well. Mirrim and Path looked absolutely precious together. All in all, I'd still say it's worth the effort to track down this out-of-print book!
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