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I remember starting this series just before I moved highschools and the next one didn't have it in the library.

It was some other planet. The kids go to the dragon hatching and maybe bonded a dragon. Then they used the dragons to fight the dangerous rain. There might have been telepathy.

I saw it about 10 years ago and it had become quite a big series, but I didn't have time to read it then. Wondering if it's worth reading a few books now to see why I liked it so much. (if my current library has it).

But "dragons fighting rain book series" doesn't give any results when I give it to a librarian. Maybe there are some better words?

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One of my favourite series ever - I think you mean Anne McCaffrey's "The Dragon Riders of Pern" A couple of dozen books in the series I think (They are on the top shelf of the bookcase presently and I'm short . . . Best of luck locating them. They tend to drop from sight in libraries as they are replaced by more current offerings.

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Thanks! That's a big help.

Looks like they only have it on audio book. But streaming, so I can start tonight.

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I have that whole series :D I love it!
I buy used paperbacks off ebay, they are cheap. And I reread them many times.
I want a dragon!! :D

Anne McCaffery said someplace she based a lot of her dragon behavior off cats, that explains why I like them so much.

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I read several of those books. I loved them!

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I'll keep an eye out at the thrift shops.

Are they all the same author or say pern on them?

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They are by Anne McCaffery, and as she got older, her son Todd McCaffery started writing with her, so his name might be on them too, I think he may have done some on his own too.
Usually the words "Dragonriders of Pern" are on the front of the books.

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I checked the first one out (but didn't get into it) from this states digital library to read off line on my tablet...do you have something similar?

I may have to give it another go seeing as some of my favorite folks here love the series. I used to read a lot of fantasy.

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I've been listening to the audio book. It's supposed to be a digital remastering of a very old recording.

I wonder if they lost something when they digitized it as the voice sounds quite flat and there are often too short a space between paragraphs/chapters. Like it got run through some automatic jumpcut and leveling filters.

But also, I remember having trouble with the first book as a teen and only loved the series because of a short story I read and some of the later books. This first chapter has a lot of names I'm getting confused with (names and audio are not easy for my brain to process) so I wonder if I need to start with a physical copy. I'll try the first chapter again today to see if I can sort it out in my head. Or maybe the second chapter makes it more clear?

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R Ranson: which book are you listening to?

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Pearl Sutton wrote:R Ranson: which book are you listening to?

book one, dragonflight

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I just checked the chapters, and yes it does get better.
Your audio might not, but the book does. You have a lot of scene laying in that book in the first chapter.

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I will have faith and keep listening.

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The one where the kid goes to the dragon hatching and imprints with a dragon he shouldn't is The White Dragon, a side book in the series. I loved those books thirty years ago!

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Jane Mulberry wrote:The one where the kid goes to the dragon hatching and imprints with a dragon he shouldn't is The White Dragon, a side book in the series. I loved those books thirty years ago!

Thats the one
It was in this book abot dragons with a Robert Jordan short story. Loved that book and story.

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from the description beyond the initial "what was that book series with the dragons" I think OP has been rightly steered to McCaffery - but the BEST dragons are by Ursula K. LeGuin in the Earthsea Trilogy.

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Halfway through the book and enjoying it!

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r ranson wrote:Thanks! That's a big help.

Looks like they only have it on audio book. But streaming, so I can start tonight.

No worries . . . you might also like her Crystal Singer series.
I read the books after coming across a challenge to weave a tapestry based on a passage from one of the Dragon books - never did get around to the tapestry though

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It makes me want to paint a dragon.

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Ah, it's an abridged version. It felt rushed.

But I enjoyed it and have borrowed the next for tomorrow.

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Yeh, I'm really struggling with this abridged version. It's all "name did this" "name said that to name" "different name did that to his brother" He had a brother? Which one in the room is his brother? They never mentioned this before! Very little description. Like what do these threads look like? Why is the threads love of green things bad? It's not mentioned in the book at all! What is this firestone and why is training with it a big deal? What do the dragons look like? All I've got is "wedged shape head" and something about a brow ridge to scratch. Why do they keep stressing the colour of the dragon as if it's a status thing?

And why is she suddenly having sex with the guy when they had no emotional interaction thus far?

Book 2 seems to be the same kind of thing. Although the intro at the start of the book had more details about book one in it than all of book one.

Maybe I should wait until I find an unabridged copy?

I like the plot, but without context, it doesn't really make sense why any of it happened.

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As a permie, I think you would really enjoy her Harper Hall books. It is set in Pern but deals mostly with a young woman and her relationship with the small versions of the dragons called fire lizards. ( and a lot about music and going against social/ family expectations)
The first is Dragonsong, second is Dragonsinger and the 3rd is Dragondrums. ( 3rd has a different lead character but a similar feel )

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R Ranson: it sounds like you would do MUCH better with the books. They make sense. Or with an unabridged version. The writing style is half of the wonderfulness, and it sounds like you are missing it.

Yes, dragon color is a status thing. Thread kills every living thing it hits, including plants, as well as animals and humans. It's the enemy in these books. Dragons fight it by flying and burning them. Gold dragons are the queens, and there are very few of them. Other dragons are, in order of best, bronze, brown, blue, green. So a bronze rider is someone who rides a bronze dragon to fight thread, and is the leaders of the group, as they have the strongest and biggest dragons.

And when dragons mate, their humans are totally caught up in it too, and it's intense beyond words.

Read the books. Or an unabridged version.

They are awesome books.
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I think the dragons must eat the fire stone to breathe fire? It's been a lot of years.

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Dian Green wrote:As a permie, I think you would really enjoy her Harper Hall books. It is set in Pern but deals mostly with a young woman and her relationship with the small versions of the dragons called fire lizards. ( and a lot about music and going against social/ family expectations)
The first is Dragonsong, second is Dragonsinger and the 3rd is Dragondrums. ( 3rd has a different lead character but a similar feel )

I second this recommendation! Wonderful stories with e different feel to the main series books.

And ugh on the abridged audio version of Dragonflight! It sounds as if they completely gutted all the meaning from the story!

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Looks like all the audio books in this series the library has are under 3 hours long. Most of them closer to 2. Feels like it would be an 8 hour book if it was whole. Maybe longer?

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Not sure if this format will work for you but here is the supposed unabridged version of Dragonsong on YouTube.
Dragonsong

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Dian Green wrote:Not sure if this format will work for you but here is the supposed unabridged version of Dragonsong on YouTube.
Dragonsong

It's 7 hours long, that's about what I would expect.
And Dragonsong is an excellent book

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Wow.
It's like the difference between See Spot Run and Tolkien.
Thanks for finding that

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The production of Dragonflight that Audible sells is nine hours fourteen minutes long.

[Abridging novels ought to be a crime. :-) ]

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Christopher Weeks wrote:

[Abridging novels ought to be a crime. :-) ]

Agreed.

Nothing worse than stripping a story of all the personality and description just to summarize the plot. Thank goodness it's fallen out of fashion as we now have Wikipedia to do that for us.

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Two comments by r ranson that add up to the same thing for me:

It's like the difference between See Spot Run and Tolkien.

Nothing worse than stripping a story of all the personality and description just to summarize the plot.

And THAT is why I hate watching movies of books I like. They butcher them to get them into 2D, and in my head, it's 4D. SO much better in my head, and I don't want my visuals corrupted by their lame ones.

Not a fan of music videos for the same reason. Their interpretation of what a song means and looks like rarely matches mine.

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Pearl Sutton wrote:And THAT is why I hate watching movies of books I like.

My wife and I read _All the Light We Cannot See_ recently and now we're trying to watch the Netflix miniseries. It is just incredibly different and almost unwatchable. It might be fine if we hadn't read the book, but we're probably going to give up on it.

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Christopher Weeks wrote:

Pearl Sutton wrote:And THAT is why I hate watching movies of books I like.

My wife and I read _All the Light We Cannot See_ recently and now we're trying to watch the Netflix miniseries. It is just incredibly different and almost unwatchable. It might be fine if we hadn't read the book, but we're probably going to give up on it.

Sounds like me and the Harry Potter books and movies. I like the books. Didn't make it through even one movie.

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Super easy answer. Tis Anne McCaffery's "Dragon riders of Pern" Series. Personal favorites from it are "White Dragon" and "Weyrs of Pern"

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I've almost finished listening to the harper hall trio. Love it! Thank you for the youtube link. (hint, duckduckgo browser doesn't play the ads)

Question - I'm still uncertain what these dragons look like. Are they four legged mammal body shape with wings like we usually see in modern movies? Or are they two legged more like a goose body shape lizards which I thought was what dragons were for most of my life because it didn't make sense how they could have front legs and wings...

The cover art for the different books switch between the two kinds.

Inquiring minds need to know. Does it mention it in the book?

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Powerful back legs to launch into the air, smaller front legs they can walk on and grab prey with.
So to my mind neither of the familiar ones, but more an animal that actually IS designed to fly and hunt, unlike the ones in the stories that seem to be not evolved to be anything in particular.

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Do these dragons have feathers? My fuzzy memory says yes ..

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Nope. Huge leather wings. Scales on the body.

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If anyone's looking for more books with dragons, I strongly recommend this author's Ormdale series: https://amzn.to/4dZoGlS . That's an affiliate link, if you prefer not to use aff links or Amazon, do an online search for Christina Baehr -- I think the books are available on most bookselling sites, not only Amazon -- or ask your local library to get her books.

Gothic Victorian fantasy, in the style of Jane Austen, plenty of fun literary allusions without being pretentious about it. It's a very real Victorian England setting, no steampunk or magic. Just - dragons still exist. Not overtly "Christian fiction", but written from a strongly Christian worldview -- the heroine is a vicar's daughter. It's the most delightful series I've read for a long time. Try the Look Inside first and read the first chapter before buying, as it could be Marmite. I suspect people will either love or hate the heroine's first person voice.

The only problem with it for me has been the wait between books! I found book 1 at a discount in June and gobbled up books 2 and 3 the next day. Then I had to wait till late July for book 4. And now a longer wait -- the final book in this series doesn't launch till November. Arrrggghhh!!!

What triggered me to mention it is Pearl's description of the dragons. This series has many different dragon species, unlike Pern where it's either dragons or fire lizards. Most in this other storyworld have the leathery wings, but some are feathered.

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