Book #19 - Dragonflight

[janetlin]

(probably the most appropriate use of this icon to date)

Wow, not so good about keeping up with my book reporting, am I? While I was in New Zealand, I bought and read Dragonflight, the first of Anne McCaffrey's Pern books. Deja vu seems to be a common theme in my reading these days, because despite that I'm _certain_ I've never read this one, bits and pieces kept feeling familiar. Little snippets of dialogue, situations and references. Weird. ETA: Aha, upon deeper exploration in Google and Wiki I see that this book contains two short stories which I might have read elsewhere. That would do it.

I enjoyed this, and think I will pick up the rest of the series, too, and probably read them in publication order instead of chronological order. It's fun to read the beginnings of a familiar situation after the fact, and have those moments of "Ah, _that's_ why x is so!" I've re-ordered my boxed Narnia set, and First King of Shannara should be read _after_ The Sword of Shannara. Ignore what the numbers on the covers say and the order in which bookstore employees may have put them on the shelf. {/soapbox}

Anyhow, yes, Dragonflight was good fantasy fun, and I was wishing I'd been able to find the sequel Dragonquest so I could read it, too. Then I came home and discovered that Dragonquest was already sitting on my shelf, loaned to me _years_ ago by my uncle. Funny how things work out, eh?

Title: Dragonflight (This cover is much prettier than the one on my 1970 edition)
Author: Anne McCaffrey
Pages: 253

19 / 24 books. 79% done!

Comments

[the_rainbow_jen]

I applaud your taste in reading here, as Annie Mc is my fave sci-fi/fantasy author. And I started with Terry Brooks at 12 in the great adventure of reading fantasy, so let me know how you like em :)

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

I blasted through the original Shannara trilogy and the Heritage books in high school, then since there weren't any others at the time, I got into the Wheel of Time. Then next time I turn around there are _scads_ of Shannara books out there! Yikes! I don't know if I'll ever get caught back up.

[the_rainbow_jen]

Heh, they're worth it. I haven't gotten to his most recent ones, because they deal with another trilogy I haven't read and connect to the origins of Shannara, but one of these days :)

[realta-dubh.livejournal.com]

These are some of my favorite books ever! I read and reread and reread these. Yes, do read in order of publication not chronology as some of the later publication books, which are some of the earlier chronologically, are not the best.