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Dragonsdawn
- Pern, Book 1
- Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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Summary
The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists - until unimaginable terror turned it into hell. Suddenly, deadly spores were falling like silver threads from the sky, devouring everything - and everyone - in their path. It began to look as if the colony, cut off from Earth and lacking the resources to combat the menace, was doomed.
Then some of the colonists noticed that the small, dragonlike lizards that inhabited their new world were joining the fight against Thread, breathing fire on it and teleporting to safety. If only, they thought, the dragonets were big enough for a human to ride and intelligent enough to work as a team with a rider.
And so they set their most talented geneticist to work to create the creatures Pern so desperately needed - Dragons!
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- Tommy Cooper & Nikky Cooper
- 15-10-20
read the book years ago
Read the full book years ago and enjoyed it. This version was ok but unfortunately this needs to be unabridged to be as good
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- Orangehazy
- 02-11-23
Sadly awful narration.
I love the Pern Books. I know the author is American. But the narrator has a really grating American accent. She ploughs through the book at break neck speed and there is very little to distinguish between sentimental moments and high drama. Sophie Aldred read the first two books she would have been much better. In fact she would have been Ace.
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- J. S
- 19-03-20
What an imagination.
What an interesting to merge medieval dragons with futuristic space exploration.so sad when it ended.
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- Wilfred
- 21-07-23
Wilf of Adlington
The original story is one of the best this version is for me a wast of time it has been cut to far the full book would have been perfect
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- Raven189
- 13-09-21
terrible narration
Unfortunately I didnt listen to a sample before buying, particularly as Im unable to return this title. The narration is awful with no inflection or feeling.
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- Kathryn Lesko
- 23-01-23
Lovely rendition
I grew up with this series and love regularly re-listening to the beginnings of pern!
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- Tamela
- 15-09-16
Good story
It was a good story, but was struggling with keeping the characters separated with so many portrayed a lot alike
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- Kindle Customer
- 18-09-20
This is a very abbreviated version of this book.
Good story and well read, but very short for a book of over 400 pages. I was disappointed by this as the Dragons of Pern is one of my favourite series.
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- Miss JR Tinley
- 06-11-22
abridged and awful!
I have been an Anne McCaffrey fan for 40 years and never ever thought I'd be writing anything negative about her work - but in this production her work, this wonderful story, has been butchered and it is truly awful. It's not just that the narration is rushed and has no depth, no emotion. The story has been abridged so badly that key events and character development have been missed out completely. It is horrendous!
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 05-07-21
Abridged
I took a chance buying direct from audible. No where obvious did it say that the book was abridged and poorly chopped up I might add. For what is usually a beautiful story of Pern, I was heartily disappointed. Shame on you audible, be clear in your marketing
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