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Dragonsdawn

Dragonriders of Pern

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By: Anne McCaffrey
Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau
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Summary

The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists—a return to an agrarian way of life—until unimaginable terror turned it into hell. Lethal spores began to fall like silvery thread-like rain from the sky, vaporizing everything—and everyone—in their path. The colony, cut off from Earth and lacking the resources to combat the menace, was doomed.

The colonists noticed that small, dragon-like lizards in their new world were joining the fight against Thread, breathing fire on it and teleporting to safety. If only the dragonets were big enough for a human to ride and intelligent enough to work as a team with a rider. With time running out and the colony's destruction imminent, they set their most talented geneticist to work to create the creatures Pern so desperately needed—dragons!

©1993 Anne McCaffrey (P)1993 Phoenix Books, Inc. Adventure Dragons & Mythical Creatures Fantasy Fiction Genetic Engineering Science Fiction
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the book was great, this I struggled with, it seems to be badly put together and failed to hold my attention .

disappointed

Abridged and seemed to jump around

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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.

Sadly awful narration.

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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.

This is a very abbreviated version of this book.

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Sadly a very poor effort. Strange pauses in sentences, gaps in the story and a very harsh voice narrating what was once a lovely tale of Pern. As a rework, it failed. I shall return this version and hope one day it will be recorded properly.

Very Dissapointing

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I wish I had believed the other reviews. this abridged version of a much loved tale is so reduced in content no characters develop into individuals, its a bare summary of the story line with very disjointed snippets of the original work.

I wouldn't bother.

disjointed and difficult to follow

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