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    <body><![CDATA[Oh for crying out loud...what the heck HAPPENED? The book right before this one, &quot;All the Weyrs Of Pern&quot; was fantastic and startling and different and beautiful. And then this one was AWFUL. McCaffrey took one of my favorite characters from the last book, Aramina, and turned her into a shr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29093858">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book.  While not as enjoyable as Dragonflight or Dragonsong, it is an enjoyable read.<br/><br/>There are a few drawbacks, of course.  Readis, the main character, is rather dull.  His story has already been told in the Pern series (A young person gets crippled, faces disapproval from o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17716549">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a lot of dragons in this book.  Events are concurrent with the latter part of Renegades, All The Weyrs, and a little past.  Mostly deals with a boy who loves dolphins and the reintroduction of their working relationship with the Pernese after centuries of neglect.  Not what you normally look for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46304260">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[McCaffrey attempts to rewrite Menolly's story... instead of a girl loving music and running away to live in caves, the boy runs away because his parents think he spends too much time with dolphins.  Not much crisis, and too much parental angst.  Add to that the continued ruining of Pern with the sud...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65157298">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It fills in some of the stories mentioned in other books in the Pern series.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read almost all of the Pern books and they are all very good.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[DOLPHINS! YYYYYEEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[loved the dolphins and the dragons]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pern+dolphins=awesome!! That pretty much sums up this book for me. This one also features one of my favorite Anne McCaffrey continuity errors, read carefully and see if you can spot it towards the end. Also this book cemented Aramina as a complete and utter bitch for me, an opinion that wasn't alter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33957120">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I agree with other reviewers that in general this is less exciting and the main guy is a bit boring, but what I loved best was the due credit that the dolphins finally received after being neglected for so long.  It's also in line with the other post-saved Pern books that left me happy yet depressed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29090293">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After ages of non-contact with a species that landed on Pern with them, the humans rediscover the Dolphins.  Young Readis, rescued by the 'ship-fish,' realizes that they are speaking to him.  He determines to learn all he can, in spite of his mother's fears for him.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I especially loved this book in the series.  It focused on more than just the dragonriders themselves but the communities found on Pern and their experiences with the dolphin pods.  Unfortunately I was expecting more at the end but perhaps that is another book?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly I don't remember much about the book. It is after Pern is &quot;saved&quot; and opened some more doors of how people continue to go back to the way they came to the world.<br/><br/>Honestly, I don't remember a lot about it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not normally a fan of Pern, but this is a fun book about a boy who learns to communicate with dolphins and assert his independence. An Anne McCaffrey favorite since I was a teenager.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this one - Readis is so cool, and T'lion, too.  I loved getting to know them better, and the dolphins as well.  Again, great peeks at the &quot;leads&quot; from the backside.  ]]></body>
    
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