Anne McCaffrey
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 468 pages Rating: 4.18 | 40546 Users | 828 Reviews
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| Title | : | The White Dragon (Dragonriders of Pern #3) |
| Author | : | Anne McCaffrey |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary 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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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.List Books As The White Dragon (Dragonriders of Pern #3)
| 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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Ratings: 4.18 From 40546 Users | 828 ReviewsRate Epithetical Books The White Dragon (Dragonriders of Pern #3)
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 noI have said this before and I still think it's true, there are some books that are meant to be read at certain times. And if you miss that particular time, then they just won't do it for you the way they might have. I suspect that The White Dragon is just such a book. I have found, and it seems to be more often the case with science fiction/fantasy novels, that I seem to have missed the (space) boat with McCaffrey's novel. Back in the 80s, when I was in the midst of my science fiction binge, my
This is one of my favorites of the series. Ruth and his rider are just plain nice people. Both are disabled in their own way. Ruth is the only white dragon on the planet Pern and Jaxom was born early from a mother who died at the time of his birth, and whose father died a short time later, making him the lord of Ruatha as an infant. Both will have to prove themselves to the humans of Pern. The dragons accept them as they are.
Jaxom and Ruth are the most interesting characters in this book (along with Brekke and Robiton), but they couldn't create any new interest in the story than the previous two books did. The adventure is bland in a fascinating and dynamic world. I gave the series a good chance, but I'll leave it now to find bigger and better. I'm sure the legions of fans already make it okay with the McCaffrey family.
Oh Pern!!!
As much of an Anne McCaffrey fan as I am, it's sad that I bought this over 5 years ago and just got around to listening to it. But, as good a job as Dick Hill did in narrating the book, I can't say that it made the book any better than it was during my years'-long love of reading and re-reading this, the 3rd of the Pern books. Maybe it's just that the story can't get any better than it is, whether read or heard. Fans of Pern and her dragons and dragonriders waited 7 long years from book #2,
Sometimes the runt is more important than anyone thought.
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