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Dragonflight

By: Anne McCaffrey
Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau
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To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life, she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise and take back her stolen birthright.

But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa's world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches.

Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread, but there are very few of them left these days. Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world....

©1968 Anne McCaffrey (P)1992, 2016 Dove Audio, Phoenix Books

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love the series

Adrienne Barbeau loved her reading! I enjoyed very much cant wait for more of series

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good distraction

Good distraction during election BS. I enjoy a good positive dragon story. Thank you for having this story.

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Love the story and the great build up to future stories

Loved the story, can’t wait to read the balance of the Pern books, some of which I have in Paperback and hard cover.

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The missing parts really bothered me

I've read this book many times and love it. The parts left out I found quite jarring. Many of the parts left out don't make any sense to me.

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A beloved childhood favorite!

I read the complete series of Anne McCaffrey’s dragon books as a child/young teen. I grew up immersed in the stories and wishing I could truly visit Pern. It’s interesting to hear the characters narrated and the different ways the reader chooses to portray people. My only complaint is that she reads people in voices older than they are in the books making 50 year olds sound 80 or 90. It also took a bit to follow names and locations since how I pronounced them in my head were different. Overall it was a pleasant surprise to run across these stories again and I’m looking forward to hearing the rest of them.

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a classic

returning to pern all over again, such a great story. as good as the first time I visited pern.

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Story is abridged

Didn’t realize this was going to be abridged. I haven’t read it this story for many years but I could tell that a lot of parts were missing. Made it frustrating to listen to.

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Great Story

This is one of my all-time favorite series. My main criticism is that I had to slow the narration down to .8 in order to enjoy it, otherwise it sounded as if Alvin of the Chipmunks was narrating - not a pleasant experience.

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Good, but incomplete

I love the book Series, and I enjoyed this audiobook version though it was a bit fast paced. , But be warned that a lot of bits and pieces got left out. If I hadn’t read the book before listening to this audiobook, I probably would’ve just thought well that’s a bit fast paced and over a bit quick but I read the book and I realize there were skips and time jumps that weren’t time jumps in the book, so just a warning to any future readers/listeners.

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ease being read to

like one of my favorite authors I don’t have fifteen words four more words to go

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