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| Hardcover, 750 pages Published 1978 (content: 1967-78) Acquired March 2007 Read December 2007 |
by Anne McCaffrey
Last March, a friend of my mother's gave me the opportunity to look through those books that had belonged to her now-deceased brother and make off with what I wished. He was an sf fan, and almost all of the books were sf ones, including some old Star Trek hardcovers. This is the first of that collection of books I have gotten around to reading; it collects the three novels in the original Pern trilogy, Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon. I enjoyed the first-- Lessa is an interesting protagonist, full of contradictions, strong, and sometime too much so. Unfortunately, once time travel entered into the mix, the story became a bit too predictable-- it was all "wibbley-wobbley, timey-wimey" in a way that removes all concept of jeopardy or suspense. Dragonquest I found somewhat tedious-- the internal political squabbles of the dragonriders hold little appeal-- but it established my love for Masterharper Robinton. The White Dragon was better, focusing as it did on one boy and his struggles. But while I found the books themselves average, the world McCaffrey has built, centered around aiding the Weyrs and fighting the Threads, yet fallen away from both ideas, fascinates me, perhaps more than the stories themselves, and it was always the reason I wanted to keep on reading. It and Robinton, at least.
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