The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo #3)
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Lester Papadopoulos was once the glorious god Apollo - now he's an awkward (mortal) teenager stuck...
science fiction fantasy young adult
Spielberg, Steven
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Steven Spielberg (USA, b. 1946) was the boy wonder of the new Hollywood of the 1970s. Taking Orson...
The Quick, the Dead and the Revived: The Many Lives of the Western Film
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For more than a century, Western films have embodied America's most fundamental doctrine -...
The Crystal Egg and Other Stories
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This volume contains a generous selection of the tales of H. G. Wells, some of them famous, some...
Doctor Who: The Vault
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Drawing on unseen and iconic material from the BBC archive and private collectors, The Vault is an...
Dune (1984)
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The long-awaited film version of Frank Herbert's classic science fiction epic, Dune, explodes on the...
Starman (1984)
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Director John Carpenter presents a romantic science fiction odyssey starring Jeff Bridges as an...
David McK (3843 KP) rated Dragonflight in Books
Apr 11, 2021
First published in 1968, I believe.
As such, it's of a very different time than today.
It's also undoubtedly a strange amalgam of science fiction (they're on a different planet, people!) and fantasy, leaning - I felt - more towards the latter than the former.
It also has, I believe, a strong following of people who thoroughly enjoyed it.
Unfortunately, I'm not one of them, finding it to be dull, boring and (mostly) bland, despite the initially intriguing setting. It also doesn't help that I didn't find any of the main characters to be all that interesting or even engaging - a cardinal sin, in my opinion. Characters don't necessarily have to be 'good' (see: Marvel's 'Loki'), but they do need to hold your attention!
Sorry, Ms McCaffrey - this just didn't really work for me.