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My first re-read since being a young adult. I went into Dragonquest with slight apprehension. I never much liked the drama with the Oldtimers and Kylara always grated. But we also get fire-lizards! Love them! Want one! I didn‘t remember that they show up for the first time in Dragonquest. My memory had placed them securely with Menolly and the Harperhall trilogy...
The language feels a little dated sometimes, however that feeling disappeared as I delved deeper into the story.
The gender roles are ...more
The language feels a little dated sometimes, however that feeling disappeared as I delved deeper into the story.
The gender roles are ...more
I'm not sure why I never read these as a teenager, but I sure am enjoying them now. The writing has an unselfconscious quaintness and ease that is quite endearing. The story easily positions itself as a kind of science fantasy hybrid without even trying to align wholly on one end or the other of the speculative fiction spectrum.
The characters are all much more fleshed out than they were in Dragonflight, and the story has a smoother and well paced progression. I am enjoying the mix of politics a ...more
The characters are all much more fleshed out than they were in Dragonflight, and the story has a smoother and well paced progression. I am enjoying the mix of politics a ...more
The good: the hatching, raising, and caring of dragons. I really enjoyed all these bits.
For everything else, I'm more of a mind that I like the general idea of the other ideas more than their actual execution.
Don't get me wrong, I love the concept of post-Earth colony and colonists, the long stretch of time and their loss of knowledge and technology, and the idea that they have all devolved into a medieval-type society. Maybe less: the idea of clans, old men, power-plays.
All told, the book feel ...more
For everything else, I'm more of a mind that I like the general idea of the other ideas more than their actual execution.
Don't get me wrong, I love the concept of post-Earth colony and colonists, the long stretch of time and their loss of knowledge and technology, and the idea that they have all devolved into a medieval-type society. Maybe less: the idea of clans, old men, power-plays.
All told, the book feel ...more
Many turns after the events of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1, the people of Pern are now used to threadfall and having dragons in all the weyrs to fight thread. But the dragonriders are experiencing a split between the Oldtimers brought forward by Lessa and the modern dragon riders as led by F'lar. The Oldtimers believe that the holders and crafthalls no longer respect them as they should. If that wasn't enough for F'lar to deal with, thread is suddenly falling outside the schedule that he pa
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I wish I’d read this when I was younger and less affronted by the ‘sexism’ which would just not have been noticeable then. Now it grates.
My other quibble is how some scenes are dragged out and others, like the event near the end, are suddenly completed in a couple of lines.
Still, I like it and am reading on.
My other quibble is how some scenes are dragged out and others, like the event near the end, are suddenly completed in a couple of lines.
Still, I like it and am reading on.
Jul 19, 2019
Navi
marked it as to-read
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Grant
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Feb 04, 2021
Di Maitland
marked it as own-to-read
