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| Original Title: | Dragondrums |
| ISBN: | 0689860064 (ISBN13: 9780689860065) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.annemccaffrey.net |
| Series: | Harper Hall of Pern #3, Pern (Chronological Order) #20, Pern #6 , more |
| Characters: | Menolly, Piemur, Masterharper Robinton, Sebell |
| Setting: | Pern |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1980), Ditmar Award Nominee for Best International Long Fiction (1980), Balrog Award for Best Novel (1980) |
Anne McCaffrey
Paperback | Pages: 243 pages Rating: 4.07 | 31631 Users | 600 Reviews
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Dear Mrs. McCaffrey,What were you thinking? You had done a brilliant job with the first two books in this "trilogy", so please do explain why you felt compelled to switch your focus from our beloved heroine Menolly to her rambunctious sidekick, Piemur? This is no trilogy. Do you think you can just skip ahead three years and make Menolly a peripheral player? Do you think that you can write a slow-moving, rather repetitive adventure story that lacks the resonance of the first two books in this trilogy, and we won't notice? We notice; and we are not happy.
This story would be fine as a stand alone story. It still would not be a great story. Despite jumping across the map of your mythical Pern, this story goes virtually nowhere. Anticlimactic is an understatement. Piemur is not even close to being fleshed out as a character and, due to this, does not have enough weight as a driving force for this story.
Why this final book jumps gears so completely is beyond me. Obviously, it left me rather frustrated. The story of Menolly was good, layered and exciting. As of book two, it was also nowhere near complete. In Dragondrums she is viewed from afar. She is understood only to the degree that Piemur understands her. This is at odds with the idea of a trilogy whose arc seemed to be the coming of age of a young girl.
I would really like to know if Mrs. McCaffrey views these three books as a trilogy or if the publisher decided to lump them together and advertise them as one. I'm more inclined to believe the latter. Not just because I want to (though I do indeed want to), but because the sense of story in the first two books flowed with a confidence utterly lacking in this final one.
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| Title | : | Dragondrums (Harper Hall of Pern #3) |
| Author | : | Anne McCaffrey |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 243 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2003 by Simon & Schuster Aladddin Paperbacks (first published 1979) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Science Fiction. Dragons. Fiction. Young Adult. Science Fiction Fantasy. Adventure |
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Ratings: 4.07 From 31631 Users | 600 ReviewsCriticize Based On Books Dragondrums (Harper Hall of Pern #3)
I remember distinctly not liking this book as much as the other two of this series when I read it back as a child (oh, yes I was doing a reread bit for a couple days), but it turns out that it's actually a fun book! I think it was just that Ms McCaffrey changed the focus of the story from my beloved friend Menolly and moved over to a newer face with Piemur. Piemur isn't a bad sort, just a rather impetuous boy who gets in a lot of trouble. There is some fun with the politics of Pern in theThe finale of the trilogy focuses is set three turns (years) after the events in the previous two books. This time the book centres around the young Piemur as his life changes due to his voice breaking.The opening chapters of this book are a little clumsy as McCaffrey tries to weave in the essential parts of the previous two books. However it still remains an absolute favourite.
This book follows Piemur. You first meet him in the first two Harper Hall books with Menolly. He is Menolly's first friend in the Harper Hall. This picks up after the first two books. Piemur has a beautiful Soprano voice as a young man, but his voice begins to crack as he begins to go through the change to becoming a man. This makes everything change for him at the Harper Hall.He is so unsure of what will happen to him in the Harper Hall once he loses his voice. The Masterharper takes him and
Each Pern novel can be read as a stand alone, but Dragondrums is the third book in the Harper Hall trilogy so if you want to read the books in the order, head over to Dragonsong (book 1) and Dragonsinger (book 2).The story starts at the end of Dragonsinger where Menolly is made a Journeyman. Piemur prepares himself for a big event where he will be the lead singer until his voice breaks and he realises that his one and only ability which made him special has now disappeared.But Piemur is very far
[2.5 stars] In it's defense, I'm also reading Oathbringer, so everything else seems more lackluster than usual. It was, however, my least favorite of the trilogy.
Once again, I find myself inadvertently jumping into the third book of an established series, but this time, it's a story that seems to depend more heavily on understanding the rules of the universe.To McCaffrey's credit, it is possible to follow the arc of this story without having read other books set in her Pern universe. But if, like me, you have only vague recollections of how this world works, a lot of the mechanics of this world may confuse you. It is assumed that you will know that the
Now this - this is interesting, because it's so clearly a book meant to be read with information from other books in the series, information that the first two Harper Hall books don't have. There are a lot of political machinations that are only referenced - so much of what's going on in the southern weyr is confusing to me! - and the choice to switch protagonists is an interesting one, too.The resolution is less satisfying. I have no idea why Piemur wants to stay, nor do I think his motivations
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