What got to me about the dragon books was the autocracy-- the stories and an infrequent threat so that ordinary memory and institutions weren't enough, and the population was illiterate. So it was necessary to have dragonriders in charge. I didn't like it that the society was rigged that way.
And don’t even get me started about Camo in the Menolly books and how he’s “fit for nothing” but chopping meat for his pretties and needs to be “shoved” in the direction of his next task. Really disturbing to me, even as a teenager.
What got to me about the dragon books was the autocracy-- the stories and an infrequent threat so that ordinary memory and institutions weren't enough, and the population was illiterate. So it was necessary to have dragonriders in charge. I didn't like it that the society was rigged that way.
And don’t even get me started about Camo in the Menolly books and how he’s “fit for nothing” but chopping meat for his pretties and needs to be “shoved” in the direction of his next task. Really disturbing to me, even as a teenager.