by Anne McCaffrey
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...
Jaxom, how can you make yourself more of a target? I feel bad for him as he's hated because of his father. And now he makes himself even more controversial by impressing a dragon. A white dragon at that! So, Ruth is an albino, right? A natural occurring mutation in nature, is what I've been tau...
As much as I loved the first two books of the Dragonriders of Pern series, The White Dragon remains my favorite. And not because of Jaxom, whom I never liked as a lead character/protagonist. Ruth was my favorite character. Ruth, the stunted runt totally unique White Dragon. The archaeological di...
This was my first attempt at reading Anne McCaffrey and I really didn't enjoy it so I'm probably one of the few SF fans from my generation who hasn't read or been impressed by the Dragonriders of Pern.
"Get on the dragon wagon" was the marketing slogan when this was released in paperback back in 1979 so I hopped on and have enjoyed the ride since. This is the final book in the first Pern trilogy (several additional books have been released since which continue the story) and tells the story of Lor...
"Get on the dragon wagon" was the marketing slogan when this was released in paperback back in 1979 so I hopped on and have enjoyed the ride since. This is the final book in the first Pern trilogy (several additional books have been released since which continue the story) and tells the story of Lor...
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