Dragonquest

Dragonriders of Pern, Volume 2

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau

Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads begin falling again. So the bold dragonriders take to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirl and swoop, belching flames that destroy the shimmering strands before they reach the ground.

Anne McCaffrey suggests Dragonquest should be heard after before The White Dragon.

©1992 Anne McCaffrey (P)1992 Dove Audio, Inc.

Abridged is not good

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.

Bad Narrator

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.

Abridged version

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?

Gotta love dragons

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

Love Dragons

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

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

abridged is bad!

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.

I was actually shocked when the book ended...

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!

forever fresh.

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.

Disappointing performance

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.

Severely Abridged!

This 12 hour book has been abridged to just under four hours! It is badly abridged! It is also MORE EXPENSIVE than the unabridged copy! Please don't waste your money on this one!