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Dragonquest

Dragonriders of Pern

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Dragonquest

By: Anne McCaffrey
Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau
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It has been seven years since Lessa's heroic journey through time to bring the five lost Weyrs of Dragonriders into Pern's future to save their world. Now, the deadly silver Threads are falling again.

F'lar, the Weyrleader at Benden Weyr, knows he must find a better way to protect his beloved Pern. F'lar's brother, F'nor, and his brown dragon, Canth, hatch a bold plan to destroy the alien scourge at its source—the baleful Red Star that fills the heavens and promises doom to all.

The bold Dragonriders take to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirl and swoop, belching flames to destroy the shimmering strands before they reach the ground.

©2002 Anne McCaffrey (P)2022 Phoenix Books Dragons & Mythical Creatures Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Time Travel Mythology Dragons
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I was so involved in the story that I didn't realize how fast the story went by. I love this series and the writers "voice". Makes me wish I had a dragon!

I was actually shocked when the book ended...

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I have read all the dragon books and loved them -- now listening to them is even better - keeps me walking and thin!!!!!!!!!!!

Love Dragons

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This was a very abridged version of this wonderful book, and I was disconcerted to not hear significant passages.
The narrator Adrienne Barbeau was good and expressive. But characters didn’t really have their own voices, just differences to distinguish between characters in a scene.
I also find it surprising that different narrators pronounce names in the same series differently. Isn’t there a pronunciation guide?

Abridged version

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Anne McCaffrey is great as usual. Pern is my favorite world. An awesome story which is what I always expect of Anne.

Gotta love dragons

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I have read every one of Anne McAffery's Dragon riders of Pern books, multiple times. I highly reccomend the written books as the audio quality and abridged nature of this re-telling of her books left me sadly disappointed with the story. I have also purchased Dolphins of Pern, First Fall, and The Girl Who Heard Dragons, and Dragon Singer. As those ones are not abridged I can reccomend them, but you will be missing out on the background that is in the first three book. I gave this 2 stars for the story, basic as it is, is still McAffery's work. If you haven't read any of her works on Pern, please don't judge her by this paltry showing of it.

Abridged is not good

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The narrator rushes every sentence in the book. She seems to have no rhythm or flow. It feels choppy and badly paced the entire time.

Bad Narrator

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This is an abridged audiobook. That might not be so bad for other Pern books, but this is the first in the series. This is the book that lays the groundwork for the entire series, but unfortunately almost all of the groundwork is summarized in the beginning of the audiobook. I left with a feeling that I had missed a lot of the background information.

abridged is bad!

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splendid imagination has Anne McCaffrey! I loved em as a kid, still do.

the roll of the wings, the whirl of the storm, the plea of anguish heard planet wide. What a story!

the narration is good, but I'd always figured audiobooks would work far better voiced as written, one actor to one character.

forever fresh.

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Adrienne Barbeau’s reading voice is annoying and her character voice makes everyone sound like they’re suffering some respiratory ailment, except a couple of the men who sound like old women.

Also it’s abridged—a practice I abhor. I wish it had been noted more obviously. I wouldn’t have bought it.

Disappointing performance

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Total waste of money. LABLE IT so I don’t waste my time and money. Furious.

Abridged!!🤬🤬🤬🤬

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