The White Dragon
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345253736 (0345253736)
Publish date: May 1979
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 468
Edition language: English
Series: Dragonriders of Pern (#3)
Started out verrrrry slowly, but eventually interesting things happened.
Although I lost interest in the later books of the Pern series, the original trilogy (and the Harper Hall books) remain among my favorites in speculative fiction. This is the third book in the series and you should read Dragonflight and Dragonquest first. This book feels a little different with it...
I though Jaxom had the personality and mannerisms of a 12 year old, and I thought he was that age, until later on with the fieldgirl. So he is in his late teens, early twenties? I had the impression on Pern that most people grow up and mature rapidly because of the constant threat of Thread. The gro...
It appears that I am re-reading the whole series. As other reviewers have said, Jaxom can be quite annoying, but does improve once he gets fire-head--and I have always, always loved Ruth.
Okay, wow, I had forgotten how unpleasant I find Jaxom about half the time. He's a sympathetic character in that he gets to do all this cool stuff, but the internal monologue and motivations McCaffrey gives him are kind of tool-y. His distress over having no one real place where he fits is deeply ap...
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