Anne McCaffrey
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 468 pages Rating: 4.18 | 40546 Users | 828 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The White Dragon |
| ISBN: | 0345341678 (ISBN13: 9780345341679) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Dragonriders of Pern #3, Pern #5, Pern (Chronological Order) #21 , more |
| Characters: | Jaxom, Ruth (The White Dragon) |
| Setting: | Pern |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1979), Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1979), Ditmar Award for Best International Long Fiction (1979), Gandalf Award (1979), Balrog Award Nominee for Best Novel (1979) The ESFS Award for Novel (1980) |
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Yes by all means, judge a book set in a feudalistic world surrounded by dragon on your personal interpretation of feminism on Earth circa 2013. This makes no sense to me. If you're going to read a book I think you should read a book and suspend your sense of self to really get a feel for the world that's being created. Now yes McCaffrey wrote a lot of these books in the 60's and 70's and she did not write super liberated women, though for her time they would have seemed quite progressive no doubt. However again, the stories are set in a fantasy world that is feudal in nature so how about judging the writing on the writing? The stories are creative, plausible, the science of this world has continuity and logic, the characters are well written. They are great stories meant to be entertaining and distracting, not to be analyzed like you're in 5th period English.Identify Regarding Books The White Dragon (Dragonriders of Pern #3)
| Title | : | The White Dragon (Dragonriders of Pern #3) |
| Author | : | Anne McCaffrey |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 468 pages |
| Published | : | July 1986 by Del Rey/Ballantine Books (first published June 1978) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Science Fiction. Dragons. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Young Adult. High Fantasy |
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Ratings: 4.18 From 40546 Users | 828 ReviewsNotice Regarding Books The White Dragon (Dragonriders of Pern #3)
No extra points in the rating for the awesome dragons and unique world this time around. The shine of Pern has worn off, and all that's left is the author's writing. In that regard, this book was pretty lackluster.I had a lot of hope for Jaxom and Ruth after Dragonquest. I was pretty much completely disappointed. Jaxom is a whiny, bratty kid that I had absolutely no investment in. In fact, I actively want him to fail. Characters that are special and wonderful at everything just for the sake ofYes by all means, judge a book set in a feudalistic world surrounded by dragon on your personal interpretation of feminism on Earth circa 2013. This makes no sense to me. If you're going to read a book I think you should read a book and suspend your sense of self to really get a feel for the world that's being created. Now yes McCaffrey wrote a lot of these books in the 60's and 70's and she did not write super liberated women, though for her time they would have seemed quite progressive no
Yes by all means, judge a book set in a feudalistic world surrounded by dragon on your personal interpretation of feminism on Earth circa 2013. This makes no sense to me. If you're going to read a book I think you should read a book and suspend your sense of self to really get a feel for the world that's being created. Now yes McCaffrey wrote a lot of these books in the 60's and 70's and she did not write super liberated women, though for her time they would have seemed quite progressive no
The old saying goes, "You can't judge a book by its cover." I can still remember that summer day when I spotted the Michael Whelan cover on "The White Dragon" and how it caught my eye. I remember picking it up, reading the blurb on the back cover and deciding I wanted to read it. I was fourteen-years old and I liked that the protagonist was around my age. It was the last book of the Dragonriders of Pern series that introduced me to McCaffrey's world.But it was the story inside that cover that
Oh Pern!!!
After Anne Mcaffrey died late 2011 I rooted around in my bookshelves for all my old pern paperbacks from the early 80's. I was utterly obsessed with these books when I was a young teenager, and they were extremely formative in my own history as a writer. The first novel I ever wrote -- longhand, in mead spiralbound notebooks -- was a thin knockoff of Dragonflight (I seem to remember it had unicorns, but I'm so embarrassed by that book I haven't managed to actually read enough of it to check). I
So Much Potential, So Little Direction5 August 2019 A part of me was thinking that maybe I am getting a little too old to be able to focus on books, or that maybe the fact that I have a lot of other things to do meant that I really couldnt get into this book as I could other books. Well, maybe it is the case that I probably shouldnt be actually blaming myself because the book is, well, boring. I guess I probably should stick to that last bit because I know that if I like a book then I really get
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