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Title: The Masterharper of Pern by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0-345-42460-3 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 28 November, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (104 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book was great ... but now I want more!
Comment: Once again, Anne McCaffrey does an excellent job of fleshing out the Pern world without ever really repeating herself. Since I was introduced to the Pern books through the Harper Hall Trilogy, I've always loved reading about the Harpers, and particularly the MasterHarper. This book answers just about every question I ever had about Robinton ... yes, this is the MasterHarper I know, and this is how he came to be the way he is. And I loved being able to learn about the characters who were long-dead by the time of "Dragonflight," particularly F'lon, Merelan, and Kasia. Unfortunately, now I am full of questions about Robinton's father, Petiron! The man is full of contradictions: he can tell if a complete stranger has the makings of a Harper, but he overlooks these abilities in his own son ... he loves his wife but neglects his child ... he prides himself on his knowledge of composition in this book, but by the events of "Dragonsong" he has to ask Robinton if he thinks that Menolly's compositions are any good. When did he come to doubt his own abilities? And how did this self-absorbed perfectionist turn into the beloved old Harper of Half Circle SeaHold -- the first character in the Pern saga that I was introduced to (although he was already dead at the time). MasterHarper of Pern does a brilliant job of recounting the events leading up to "Dragonflight," but it leaves me wanting to know more about the events leading up to "Dragonsong!"
Rating: 2
Summary: Just a decent biographry of Robinton
Comment: The readers asked for it...that's why Anne McCaffrey wrote it, so she claims. I read it, hoping that she could make a good story about his youth. It is vaguely interesting but basically it was a dressed up from the background biographical material to the Pern books that Anne probably wrote decades ago. There was nothing exciting about Masterharper. No great adventure, new discovery or exciting action. We find out what formed Robinton's character and skills in his childhood and early youth. We also find out how he first met all the older personalities in the Dragonriders of Pern and trilogy established friendly or otherwise relationships with them. The best part of the book was the very end where it neatly lands us from a diffrent perspective at the beginning of Dragonflight: Ruatha, when Lessa is rescued by the dragonriders and Jaxom is born.
Rating: 4
Summary: A beloved character gets his own book
Comment: Perhaps the most popular of the major "regulars" in the Pern series is Robinton, the rich-voiced Masterharper who can hear and be heard by every dragon on the planet. Many readers grieved with the Pernese when he was killed off. Now, at last, we have a book that explains how this pivotal character came to be who he was. From his birth (which nearly kills his mother), through his childhood as a prodigy (loved by his vocalist-mother but cold-shouldered by his composer-father), his first meeting with Falloner (later the Dragonrider F'lon, father of F'lar and F'nor) and their developing friendship, his two great loves and the tragedies to which they led, and his clandestine (and hitherto untold) work among the Holders, up through the opening scenes (told from his viewpoint) of "Dragonflight," we watch as his character and gifts develop and he becomes, inevitably, the man who will help lead Pern into its as-yet-unsuspected future. McCaffrey also, as in every Pern book, sprinkles a few new tidbits about her planet through the story. You need to have read at least the first two books in the series to understand what's going on, and the story is a bit slow to start, although once Robinton is writing music it grows more interesting. Definitely an indispensable read for McCaffrey's legion of fans.
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Title: Dragonseye by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0345418794 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 27 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0345368991 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Renegades of Pern by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0345369335 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 13 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Dolphins of Pern by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0345368959 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 27 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0345368932 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 24 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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