What power?

The babe with the power.

What babe?

You remind me of the babe...

Labyrinth!

The Lord of The Rings movie trilogy - yep, I count all of then as one movie basically. Great story, great characters, great cinematography and a timeless soundtrack by Howard Shore !

I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

You weren't asking me, but no one else has mentioned this: all the false dichotomies. When I was in jr high and high school, the options before the characters seemed right in the sense that I thought, "Yes, those are the options in that situation." Of course they did, as a teen I thought the same way: either my…

Probably, if she were white. I mean it's not like Malaysia has the word Asia in it's pronunci- what? You're telling me it does. So he's even stupider then for trying to talk shit to someone for referring to a person's genetic continental origin on the internet.

I reread Dragonflight recently, and other than the dated early-1960s values, it does read very much like a modern YA book. And not a particularly great one. While the concept of riding dragons was pretty innovative, I think it's been done better since, and I haven't felt a need to read more of the Pern books. Today,…

I think I read them pretty much in order but the ones that stuck were the ones with the white Dagon Ruth - who I liked as a character and the storylines were much more involved and exciting, what with the exploration of the new land and the time travel and history of the planet. I guess you'd need the first book for…

I was into the Pern books as a teen, and role-playing in Pern fandom from ages 13 to 20. When I was around 18 or 19, I noticed that some of the "romantic" sex scenes were actually rape. Experienced F'lar and F'nor forced themselves on the inexperienced Lessa and Brekke, respectively. Turns out, halfway through, sex…

I love palace intrigue now; give me a good, twisting plot complete with intellectual heroes, and I'm very satisfied. DrOP is a touch plodding and predictable by comparison. I did enjoy Lessa's introduction with all of her conniving and deception, but after she made it to the dragons, she got kind of boring.

I read The Harper Hall Trilogy when I was in sixth or seventh grade and was borderline obsessed with them. This was in the mid 90's when we all had geocities sites for creating characters and writing terrible fan fiction. I did read a few of the other Pern books as I got older, but for me, Menolly and her fire lizards…

I have to be honest - Lessa and F'lar certainly, ahem, awoke some feelings inside of me as a young teen.

I read my first of hers, Dragonsdawn, at 15, and I've since read every single book of hers up until her son joined in (which totally spoiled it for me), which is a period of 25 years. I still adore the books, and I'd recommend them for adults just as much as teens.

Agreed. I enjoyed it as an adult as well. I think anything that encourages someone to only read something during certain ages is silly. I read quite a lot of Shakespeare in 5th grade. Enjoyed classic literature, too. As an adult, I've enjoyed quite a lot of young adult novels. Reading is reading, and I'm just happy…

I think the writing style grates more when you're an adult. It's written the way a bright, smartass 15-year-old would write, with a look at me, how witty and clever I am, style. Also, it's definitely got the Mary Sue, unappreciated, overlooked, come from behind, saves the world hero/heroine/dragon trope.

For before about 15, there's a book in the series called A Gift of Dragons, which are G to PG short stories set in the world of Pern. Great introduction to the series and very inspiring. Then once the kid's 15 and fully in the swing of puberty, the rest of the series is officially okay for them to read.

The Pern books are just as entertaining to me as an adult, reading out of nostalgia, as they were when I was a teen. I think the appeal, for a younger audience, comes from main characters that are, often as not (at least in the first books), set at a similar age. That time before adulthood, when things are confusing,…